Rueben

Using her favorite online handle, Rueben is an East Coast-bred gal who is now a permanent Californian and a lifelong tv-oholic. She watches at least 25 TV shows a week, goes to the movies as often as possible, listens to music every waking moment, reads every day and “plays” on the internet every chance she can. Some of her current favorite TV shows are Outlander, Sweet Magnolias, Wednesday, High Potential, Will Trent, Reacher, The Gilded Age, Fire Country, Matlock, Miss Scarlet, Skymed, The Rookie, Bridgerton, Virgin River and School Spirits. She is looking forward to season three of Silo on Apple TV; season two of Ransom Canyon on Netflix; season five of Harry Wild on Acorn TV and the debuts of Lanterns on HBO Max and Anna Pigeon on USA Network. Follow her on Bluesky @ruebensramblings.bsky.social or contact her at rueben@nicegirlstv.com. Please also check out Rueben's Ramblings website for even more entertainment news.

Good Witch Recap: ‘Surprise Me’

Sunday night’s episode of Good Witch found Cassie spending more time with both her old college friend John as well as her next-door neighbor Sam. While Cassie has clearly stated that she isn’t ready to move on in a relationship just yet, John (nor Sam) seem ready to accept that. They, of course, are not pushing Cassie [that wouldn’t fit …

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What To Expect on TV in June

It’s hard to believe that in a little over a week the 2015-2016 TV season will come to an end and then just a little over a week beyond that the 2016 summer TV season will begin in earnest. There will be a lot of summer shows coming back and the following are the shows and made-for-TV movies in June …

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Outlander Recap: “Best Laid Schemes…”

The best laid schemes don’t always work out quite the way they were planned and broken promises can have horrible ramifications. Both of those statements played out in full on last night’s episode of Outlander, finding Murtagh, Claire and Jamie working to stop the Bonnie Prince and their archenemy the Comte St. Germaine from getting their money that would go …

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Movie Review: A Sort of Homecoming

The new independent movie A Sort of Homecoming is available on digital HD and On-Demand through Mar Vista Entertainment as of today. The film tells the story of Amy, a New York news producer (Michelle Clunie from Queer as Folks) for the fictional CZN News in New York City, who thought she left her high school experiences long in the …

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Do You Remember: Jack & Jill

Back on September 26, 1999, the one-hour comedy-drama Jack & Jill debuted on the WB Network (now known as The CW). The series focused on David “Jill” Jillefsky (Ivan Sergei, who since has gone on to appear in Charmed, Crossing Jordan, Gravity, Twisted and most recently NCIS: New Orleans) and Jacqueline “Jack” Barrett (Amanda Peet, who since has gone on …

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Good Witch Recap: “The Trouble With Love”

Last night’s episode of Good Witch focused a lot on love. The love between a mother and son; the love between a mother and daughter; the love between a man and a woman and the love between a surrogate father and a young girl who desperately misses her late father. There were a number of different levels of love on …

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Outlander Recap: “Untimely Resurrection”

As last night’s episode of Outlander opened, we saw the aftermath of the brawl that broke out in Claire and Jamie’s French home. Their many servants are in “clean-up” mode, restoring their lavish home back to order while Claire impatiently waited for word on Jamie, who – along with all the other men involved in the brawl – were taken …

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A Salute to Mom

I am sure we all have different ways of celebrating Mother’s Day. Some families probably go out for dinner; some probably have a big party and maybe others treat their mom to a day of pampering. The hard part for many of us, though, is not being able to celebrate Mother’s Day with your mom because she has passed away. …

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Movie Review: Raising the Bar

The new movie Raising the Bar, available on digital HD/VOD as of May 1 from Mar Vista Entertainment, focuses on 16-year-old Kelly Johnson (Kelli Berglund, one of the stars of the Disney XD series Lab Rats), a champion gymnast in Atlanta, Georgia, who moves from the United States to Australia with her surgeon mother Sarah (Peta Shannon) in the hopes …

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Good Witch Recap: ‘Out of the Past’

The characters on the Hallmark Channel fan favorite series Good Witch were surprised in last night’s new episode by visitors from their past, present and future. Okay, perhaps that is a little far-fetched, but it does make sense not only given the episode title but also by the events that took place in the episode. As we know, Cassie was …

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