Trauma Personified: 2018's "Citizen Rose"
After years of silence, trauma, and backlash, Rose McGowan tells her own story in this miniseries.

Emily Brooks, this voluptuous redhead, was smiling, bending over and wrapping herself up like a pretzel all day long. At this hot August show in Indiana, over 70 strippers from the Midwest and feature dancers from all over the nation showed off their tans and a whole lot more for the roving cameras of John Stagliano, Big John and myself. The girls compete for cash and prizes during the day in categories such as Miss Nude North America, Best Breasts and our favorite, Best Buns.
After years of silence, trauma, and backlash, Rose McGowan tells her own story in this miniseries.
In all actuality, “Just Mercy” should be labeled a “wall punching narrative.” Constantly, the flick throws high forms of adversity our way, amping up our most inner levels of discomfort. Filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton wonderfully paces the film in such a way that replicates the slow-burn nature of justice.
These openly gay Hollywood figures risked so much by being honest about their sexuality: judgment, loss of employment, hate – even violence and death.
Seriously, and this is coming from someone who was extremely skeptical before giving it a watch. I assumed the show would be painfully boring, but one of the show's strongest qualities is you needn't know anything about the lore to get invested in it.
A quiet film that does not demand your tears but earns them. It explores love that lingers, timing that fails, and the silence between what was and what could have been.
"The Old Guard" doesn't break ground, but it sure does bust boredom and fictional heads as an entertaining action romp on Netflix.