Reels & Riddims
Welcome to Reels & Riddims!
Mikelah and Kerry-Ann, two friends and culture enthusiasts, give their eclectic mix of commentary and reviews in world of TV, Film, and Concerts. From dissecting storylines in TV and film that feature Caribbean characters, to the irresistible 'riddims' of the concerts, Reels and Riddims got you covered.
Reels & Riddims
New Season + What We’ve Been Watching Over the Break
Welcome to season 3 of Reels and Riddims, where we bring a fresh perspective rooted in our Jamaican & Caribbean heritage and experiences in America.
In this episode we catch you up on all the shows and movies we’ve been into since Season 2 ended which includes hits like Hulu's Reasonable Doubt to Apple TV's Vince Vaughn's Bad Monkey. We also explore other captivating series like How to Die Alone and dive into HBO Max's Coming From America, a narrative that follows Black families' emotional journeys from America to Africa. Tune in to get our unique perspectives on the latest TV, what made our must-watch list, and what’s coming up this season. Join us for laughs, recommendations, and our one-of-a-kind Caribbean take on all things entertainment!
We are excited about the new season and can't wait to talk about what we're watching with you.
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Speaker 2:Yes, we've been spoiled now.
Speaker 1:So I am Makayla, you guys know me of Stylin' Vibes, and my co-host is with the Mosties.
Speaker 2:And I'm Kerri-Ann the producer, host of Carry On Friends and founder of Red Fruit Media, and I'm excited that we're back with this new season of Reels and Rhythms, with this new season of Reels and Rhythms, and if this is your first time tuning in to Reels and Rhythms, let me remind you what Reels and Rhythms is about. It is about reels, which is movies, anything basically on TV, so documentary TV shows, specials, whatever and the other part, rhythms. We love going to concerts, festivals. So we are giving you our perspective or a take on whatever's on TV or whatever to go on live. And so one of the things we wanted to do a little different is to kind of define what we cover on Reels and Rhythms.
Speaker 2:So, of course, of course, first and foremost, we want to talk about projects that have a strong Caribbean focus. So it's Caribbean-centric, all the characters are Caribbean, but we also watch shows where there is maybe a mainstream show and has one character, and we also watch shows that have no Caribbean characters. But what makes it all different? You are getting it through the lens of two women who are Caribbean or Jamaican, and that is the perspective you're getting. You're getting the immigrant perspective through rules and rhythms. So we don't only cover streaming content, live content that is Caribbean focused. We do that. That, of course, is central, but we also watch and consume a lot of content, and we do that through our lens, which is unique as Caribbean people. So I just wanted to let you know that, because we just love watch TV Like the other day we were at an award show and we started singing the theme songs to a lot of shows and it was like, yeah, how we see these shows, at least my perspective of these shows.
Speaker 2:Growing up in Jamaica and seeing this versus coming to America, you know very different perspectives, so we wanted to add that layer of nuance to this season so you can get more of, like, the bigger view of how we're seeing things. So did I cover that right.
Speaker 1:Tid, yes, and we'll definitely continue to cover Caribbean projects that we've done in the past, but we're just going to be incorporating a little bit more, a little more to the regime of content. So I think it's going to be fun. So, again, if you guys haven't joined us before, welcome, welcome, welcome. We thought it would be a great idea for us to in that vein. We haven't been on in a while. So what have we been watching? Like you know, things that have caught our eye. I'll let Keri go first. Tell me what have you been watching in the last few months.
Speaker 2:All right. So before this, just last night, I was talking to a friend and I was telling them about this new show and they really look at me and was just like when you find time to do all of this? Right, you watch a lot of stuff, you're married, you have kids, you work full time, you're editing, you're doing all of this and you know I take it for granted how much routine I build up, not just for myself, but with my family. I build up not just for myself, but with my family. But the one thing I forgot to tell this person was this summer was the chill and be still summer. So I had everything set up and autopilot. So my summer was really me not doing anything, episodes with schedule, so I found myself just watching a lot. So, with that said, I just finished, as of today, I just finished season two of Reasonable Doubt. That's on Hulu. When I tell you right, wow, I'm even bringing my coworkers in to watch it. So I got one coworker watching it and it's like real time reaction. So Reasonable Doubt on Hulu is amazing.
Speaker 2:I started watching Bad Monkey over the summer with Vince Vaughn and Bad Gal Jodi, who I really love, and I love that particular series because it switches between the Bahamas and the Florida Keys, and I still have to watch the last two episodes. I was kind of waiting a little bit because Apple, hulu and Disney they don't drop all the episodes one time. I think what they do is they tease you when the season starts and maybe give you two episodes, but you have to watch week to week. So it was getting juicy on Bad Monkey and I said, all right, we need to bill up. So I watched how to Die Alone, which is what's her name? Who was in? Insecure Natasha Rothschild, yep. So I watched that. I watched Unprisoned, which is with Kerry Washington, and then I watched, of course, bad Boys. That was the big thing in the movie theater. And then what else to watch? I watched multiple times Inside Out 2, right, nobody Wants this. On Netflix just wrapped that. The perfect couple. And an interesting one which is on HBO Max or Max Coming From America, which is a play on coming to America, and I only got through one episode and I was just like I don't know if I'm going to go to episode two. But basically it followed. The description said five, but I only counted four families, black families who are moving from America back to different countries in Africa and their adjustment. You know they're very excited about going to Africa, but some culture shock.
Speaker 2:In the first episode and even watching it, the things that they were talking about I was just like, yeah, no, this is. This. Is what happened in Jamaica too. Like you know certain things. Like um, she was driving and she was complaining why the people don't get out the road. They're walking out of the road. And so my husband and I are watching. I'm like, yes, they're walking in the road because there's no banking. That's what we call the sidewalk. There's no banking or sidewalk for them to walk and it's optional for us to stop and let you pass. Right, even the dog I walk, like yo me also have rights to the road. And then the husband, who is white for one of the couples, he was like they're looking at me. Strange because I'm walking the dog, because we said we don't want dog, dog can't walk itself at me. Strange because I'm walking the dog because we said we don't walk dog, dog can't walk itself, so I didn't get to episode two, but that's a synopsis of what I've been watching over the summer.
Speaker 1:I actually just saw like an Instagram post and I don't know how factual it is because I haven't watched it yet. So the Reasonable Doubt episodes are actually named after singles on Jay-Z's album.
Speaker 2:That was, I believe, so, because in season one there was 99 Problems. So, yes, all of them. The show is so. From the style, everything just feels correct. From the style, everything just feels correct. And Kerry Washington also is EP executive producer on that.
Speaker 2:I think Larry Wilmore is on there, I think the show's creator Ramala I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing her name right is also she started writing on Scandal. But even the music they play like they were playing Farside in one of the episodes, so it's just, it's really cool. I think the first season was Michael Ealy and this season was I remember it must have gone bad Morris Chestnut, and so it's just just really good, like really great topics, but yeah, music on point, clothes on point character, you know like things, um, but yeah.
Speaker 1:I've been telling you for watching. Yeah, well, the challenge with me is because I have a little one, so I can only watch a lot of the shows when she's either sleeping or not around, and so that often taints my ability to watch. Although I have a lot of the shows, I think the only one that I don't have is was it leaving it with the America one that you said?
Speaker 2:That's not coming from.
Speaker 1:America, coming from America. That sounds interesting, so I'm going to add that to my list. However, I was able to get through a few things. Oh yeah, I forgot.
Speaker 2:I did watch Supercell Long time.
Speaker 1:Yes, supercell, yeah, that was going to be my. That's my first one, really, really, really, and I'm not going to talk about the thing because I'm going to know if we are going to talk about it in our next episode. I saw, but Supercell Very good, very, very good. Love that one, and I like the theme of that because it's like superhero driven and so it's a little bit more easier to watch. I finally finished All American, which is a show that I've been watching on and off for a while, but it's on Netflix. It's about a football player. It's loosely based off of a football player's life, but it kind of is that 90210 meets.
Speaker 2:Friday Night Lights. Friday Night Lights, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's a younger high school college-level drama, if you will. Um, I actually restarted re-watching Martin, so like I'm watching a lot of reruns um, me too.
Speaker 2:I've been dipping into Martin like I do it, not like binge it, but like when I'm I'm in a mood I'd go to Martin or I'll go to Living Single or I'll go to A Different World Like. I feel like I want to watch an episode, and then I'll pick an episode that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's a feel good, easy to watch, like when I'm doing something else. And you know the comedy kind of breaks up the time frame. Movies, actually I just started watching with Kirk. Kirk is my husband. We are watching House of Dragons, so we've watched I'm not going to say Lord of the Rings, game of Thrones, the full thing, and so House of Dragons is a spinoff of the Targaryen family and it's starting off a little slow.
Speaker 1:I'm kind of wondering if I'm actually going to be able to finish it, for two reasons. You know he loves football and he's in American football season and so it's hard to watch anything together. So we'll watch like one or two episodes here and there Meanwhile I want to try to get through a few and his schedule and our my schedule doesn't align. So I'm sure that happens to you guys, where you guys start watching things as a couple and then you dive off on who not watch on who get watch on this one, get left off and then them start watch the next one and you guys get all out of whack. So that might actually happen with this one.
Speaker 1:But also the disinterest, I think, because it's so similar right now to um game of thrones in terms of the storyline. It just felt like they're kind of plugging and playing and then you have the dragons. Um, so kirk and I were kind of talking about that around, like it's so similar as a spinoff that it has to be really interesting in order to kind of keep you there, because the concept of the show is originally was so different that you're always going to be comparing the spinoff to the original. So, um, yeah, so I think this, this episode, is really just a quick wait wait, I have one more.
Speaker 2:I have one more that I was watching so um. I watched Worst Ex Ever on Netflix.
Speaker 1:That's a documentary right.
Speaker 2:It was like a true crime thing, right, and the reason why I wanted to bring it up. One of the episodes had this woman from Guyana on there and let me tell you, those stories were wild.
Speaker 1:It's a story, but I'm not watching it Wild.
Speaker 2:She met this guy and maybe he's Guyanese too and he pretends to be a detective. Well, at the time we didn't know that, but he introduces himself as a detective. You know she was working on Wall Street. Save up our money to open a Golden Cross franchise, have our family working in there. Yes, the man come in and you know he introduces himself. He's being nice Him. Tell our office set up our security camera. Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:Long story short they end up with him. So one day this lady called her and said I bet you so-and-so told you he's a police officer. Her and said I bet you so-and-so told you he's a police officer. So she ended up breakup with him. And he didn't like the breakup. Come over to the house, force himself into the house, rape her and she files a report. And they're about to go to court In Nwonga court, his mother calling asking her to rethink this. So he sets her up. One night she's driving home Police pull her over Kiaraga, long Island, lock her up. Basically, she fits the description of pretending like a police officer and robbing three specific people. Long story short robbing three specific people. Long story short.
Speaker 2:This boyfriend was a breakup with. He paid those three people to say that the woman robbed them at gunpoint. Yes, she spent almost months in a jail in Long Island because I guess Long Island has stricter rules I didn't know this and she ended up suing some aspect of Suffolk or I can't remember which county in Long Island. She sued him because one he was the one impersonating but he's been a known informant for the police. So she was saying because of that they never really want to look into him and investigate and they got to try us out or something. It was rough. And they got to try us out or something it was rough. But then the other episode. There were other episodes where it was hard, where this one guy he paid his cousin $1,000 to kill his wife but the cousin don't know the wife, so when the wife's sister opened the door, kill the wife's sister and kill the wrong person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I mean the worst ex ever. Of all the stories there was one story involving a man, but what was just really really hard to escape was in all the stories the police never believed the women. You know, even with physical bruise. One one man beat up the girl when she called the police and then got the house. The man wiped down the place, wiped off the blood. Nothing happened. I said, look, she's the one who cut me. That was wild Eye-opening and it's crazy. It's just a lot. But yeah, that's what I was doing all summer watching and just being entertained. Really All of this to say lots of TV watching.
Speaker 1:We're not sure how to show us for watch or review, so there's definitely going to be a lot coming up on this season of Reels and Rhythms. Also want to encourage you guys to follow us on social media. Reels and Rhythms Also want to encourage you guys to follow us on social media Reels and Rhythms on Instagram. We are only on Instagram, so just follow us there. One, please figure out the content besides the podcast, and if you have your own recommendations, we would love to hear them as well. We will be sharing. You know what we've been up to and what we've been watching, but we also want to know what you guys have been watching as well. So any last words, keri, no welcome to the new season.
Speaker 2:We're very excited. Um, someone asked when the new season was starting, so I'm excited that you know. You all are interested in hearing what we have to say, and we're just ready.
Speaker 1:Ready, all right, until next time, keri, what you say, walk good.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:Until next time. Me, you let's say later me, peeps, carrie, what you say Walk good, Walk good, all right, bye, guys, all right Bye.
