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#2 - Television

As soon as I saw the trailer for You I immediately thought "This is Gossip Girl gone wrong." You originally aired on Lifetime in September of 2018 and was picked up by Netflix shortly after. Currently there is only one season available, but a second season has been confirmed.  The show is a psychological thriller based on a novel written by Caroline Kepnes in 2015. It follows the life of bookstore owner Joe Goldberg and Guinevere Beck who is an aspiring writer. What at first seems like an awkward crush spirals into the blurred lines between love and obsession. Penn Badgley who is cast as Joe Goldberg also plays a character in the long running show Gossip Girl. Just like Joe, Badgely's character Dan watches his blonde love interest from afar. Joe Goldberg is much less endearing in You as time progresses, but the concept is still the same. I really like that the show is done from Joe's perspective because one gets the opportunity to see things from h

#1 - Music

All  Live Photos Courtesy of Andrea Marie Chvatal If you know me well personally, nothing in this post will truly come to a surprise. If you don't, well... just keep reading. Before I came to college- in fact the whole reason I decided to pick Mass Communications as a major was because I was interested in the music industry. Specifically writing and the public relations aspect of it. After two and half years of studying this major my interests have broadened, but the topic of music is something I am still passionate about. I chose a band's album that I am a huge fan of, and something I could write about easily. This is all a drawn out explanation of why this will probably be my longest post for this class. Silent Planet is a band that is truly hard to describe. I may be biased, but I feel like they are bringing something new to their genre. There is a lot of debate about what genre they are exactly. A quick google search lists these as the genre types they may fall un