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TV Review: Red Oaks

I'm falling way behind on my blog posts in the last month or so. Between work and Jenn and I having pretty full weekends I just haven't had the time or made the time to keep up with the blog. That doesn't mean however that Jenn and I have slowed down on our TV watching, quite the contrary. One of the shows we recently ran through was an Amazon Original, called Red Oaks. 

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Recapping Four Plays at South Coast Repertory

Over the Thanksgiving break Jenn and I went a little crazy and bought season passes to both Segerstrom and South Coast Repertory. The two are very different theater experiences. Segerstrom is much more of your mainstream theater with Broadway style performances. Whereas South Coast Repertory (SCR) is much more your indie small scale performances. Our season pass at SCR entitled us to four plays of our choice. That was the hardest part as all of them sounded compelling. However we made our choices and just wrapped up our first full season at SCR and loved every second of it. 

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Movie Review: Captain America: Civil War

Let me just start by saying I'm 100% #TeamCap. If you don't know what the means you probably aren't going to be all that interested in this review. For me though Captain America has been the pinnacle of the Marvel cinematic universe (MCU). His movies (especially Captain America: Winter Soldier) are my favorite of the series, and I usually am rooting for him in The Avengers movies. 

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TV Review: Catastrophe Season 2

Last year I ranked the eighteen different shows we watched and ranked the first season of Catastrophe as my personal favorite, and Jenn agreed. So to say we were looking forward to the sophomore season of Catastrophe is a giant understatement, we had the release date circled on our calendar. The release date was only a couple of Friday's ago and we've already consumed the six episode second season. 

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TV Review: The Amazing Race 27 (We Both Picked Wrong This Time)

A couple of weeks ago most of our TV shows that we watch while eating dinner took breaks we were left with an opportunity to watch a season of The Amazing Race. I signed up for a month of CBS All-Access (which is currently $5.99) to go ahead and watch Season 27 of The Amazing Race. The one downside to using this service apposed to just buying the season on iTunes is that it is jam packed full of commercials that you cannot skip. Making matters worse similar to most online services it repeats the same ads over and over and over again. 

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TV Review: House of Cards Season 4

I cannot believe that I'm already writing about the forth season of House of Cards. It's kind of insane that Netflix (now a powerhouse in the industry) started its quest for dominance with this political thriller. After two incredible seasons, last years third season was not at the same standard. Well I'm happy to report that not only is Season 4 back to the high level of the first two seasons, it might be my favorite season so far. 

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