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  We Are Lady Parts - review This is long overdue BUT here is my review of We Are Lady Parts, season 1! TL;DR: It's great, watch it now! It was announced back in November '21 that We Are Lady Parts will return for a season 2, which was great to hear. It's well deserved. What is We Are Lady Parts? We Are Lady Parts is a British sitcom series from Channel 4 ( watch trailer here ) that debuted in May '21, written and directed by Nida Manzoor .  The series follows an unsigned British punk rock band consisting entirely of Muslim women. In the US it is distributed by Peacock. If you're in the UK you can watch it on Freeview streaming, Channel 4. It should be noted that We Are Lady Parts has had rave reviews across the board.  My peers who watched it before me also gave it great reviews.  What delayed me in watching was my concern that a show about a punk rock band would simply be like many mainstream (cough, white, cough) shows or movies before it, and feel...

  Netflix Orders ‘Grendel’ Series Based On Dark Horse Comic With Abubakr Ali To Star From Deadline : Netflix has given an eight-episode series order to Grendel, a series based on the masked vigilante from Matt Wagner’s popular, award-winning Dark Horse comic book series, with Abubakr Ali (Power Book II: Ghost, Katy Keene) set to star in the tite role. With Ali’s casting, he becomes the first Arab Muslim male actor to portray a series lead in a comic book adaptation. The series, written and executive produced by Resident Evil and Supernatural alum Andrew Dabb, comes out of Netflix’s first look deal with Dark Horse Entertainment. Source: Deadline - This is so exciting! Congrats, Abubakr Ali! Can’t wait to see this on Netflix. Casting director, Jen Euston, said on Twitter a few hours ago : " I had no idea that when we cast the extremely talented [Abubakr Ali] that he would be the first male Arab Muslim to portray a comic book lead.  "It’s 2021 and we shouldn’t be the firs...

Image description: fictional character Naqib in Amazon Prime’s show The Boys. (Is the fire in the background an excuse to use racist Yellow Filter to show how exotic he is? Hmm.) WHY NAQIB SUCKS . -    This was the first post here on my blog back in Dec 2020, and as I've just added the same post to my new tumblr account , I've done some very minor edits and added links to my other posts. And I'm going to keep talking about Naqib in The Boys, because nobody else does.  So, without further ado: - I was a big fan of The Boys season 1; I love superheroes, I love deconstructing a genre. Sure, it has its problems, but overall I enjoyed season 1 and thought the show had potential. (That’ll learn me for being hopeful!) When season 1 ended with this big build up of mostly nameless brown and background characters as Muslim terrorists (deep sigh) we the audience are left thinking this one Muslim character, Naqib , whose superpower is to blow himself up repeatedly (insert...