Melissa Linares
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Melissa is a 20something-year-old pop culture lover living in South Florida. She has been passionate about storytelling for as long as she can remember. She loves books, movies, and television; any great story that can make her cry or laugh, or both. She is an unashamed and unapologetic fangirl of way too many fictional characters and is still waiting for her Hogwarts acceptance letter to arrive in the mail.

Set It Up Movie Review: The Netflix Charmer is the Summer Romance we Needed

Romantic comedies can be a complicated terrain for the film enthusiast. The genre has had some great hits but there are also many many misses in that bag due to studios disinterest in creating great content for the genre. Netflix’s…

The Fosters Series Finale Offers Doses of Nostalgia

The three-night series finale of The Fosters was certainly a memorable one! There’s no drama like a destination wedding type of drama, am I right? The first of the three episodes begins in the backyard of that wonderful Fosters’ home,…

The Fosters Season 5 Finale Review: “Just Say Yes” & “Many Roads”

The Fosters season finale and 100th episode made for a night filled with tears and heartfelt moments. While this two-hour finale wasn’t the end of the series (a three-episode series finale is coming to Freeform this summer), this ending was…

For Your Consideration: Superstore

This week’s edition of “For Your Consideration” features the Justin Spitzer created show Superstore. The show premiered in the fall of 2015 on NBC, and you can catch its third season Thursday nights this fall! Best known for his writing…

The Fosters 5×09 Review: “Prom”

Another incredibly intense cliffhanger for the midseason finale of The Fosters and we’ve come to expect nothing less. These first nine episodes of the fifth season have explored some pretty important topics. Everything from the sexism in gaming, to a healthy…

Movie Review: Some Freaks

Teen coming-of-age films always try to convey the quirky mess of emotions that come with growing up and falling in love. Some Freaks captures that bittersweet alienation that brings together the most unlikely of people, the outcasts and the misfits.…

The Fosters 5×01 Review: “Resist”

Welcome back to another tumultuous season premiere of The Fosters! Season five picks right back up with the events of the last season. We see the protest against the privatization of Anchor Beach escalating as the administrators attempt to keep…