'Life & Beth' and 'Sort Of' - Two New Series Bravely Lose The Labels
J Brooke, Incluvie Guest Columnist on 'Life and Beth' and 'Sort of': while living one’s truth is freedom, speaking it as a mandatory assignment can become captivity.

Ümran is a young and beautiful girl who belongs to a wealthy family. Living a luxurious life, Ümran enters into a romantic relationship with Metin, a young swimmer she meets at the pool who is infatuated with her. The two lovers decide to get married soon, but the girl's father, Abbas, who disapproves, kicks Metin out of the house when he comes to ask for Ümran's hand in marriage. As a result, the young girl runs away from home and reunites with her beloved, and the two marry and establish a happy home. However, over time, issues arising from the class difference between them lead to frequent arguments. Despite their love overcoming everything, Metin's business begins to falter due to Abbas's relentless anger and obstacles, causing chaos to ensue.
J Brooke, Incluvie Guest Columnist on 'Life and Beth' and 'Sort of': while living one’s truth is freedom, speaking it as a mandatory assignment can become captivity.
Personalities clash and tempers fume in a family-run Chicago restaurant
Desi Arnaz was an innovator in television and Lucille Ball was a sketch comedy clairvoyant of sorts; 'Being the Ricardos' focuses on their genius as a couple, but shies away from the interracial aspect of their marriage.
Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.
True crime media is notoriously obsessed with the “missing white woman” trope, and yet the vast majority of American murder victims are male, and well over half are people of color.
A pop star at Radio City Music Hall gets the opportunity to change herself to save her music career.