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It is an open secret that the music industry especially in Nigeria is a boys club. When you take a look at both the veteran and emerging acts who are making waves within and outside the country, it is overwhelmingly male. To assume it is so because women artists aren’t making good enough music or aren’t good enough themselves is the route many have chosen to go but this isn’t just mentally lazy, it also ignores the blatant sexism that plagues the Nigerian music industry.

Nigeria itself is sexist, with sexism manifesting and holding the country back in many ways. A 2017 Stears Business article found out that the Nigerian female labor market participation ratio is embarrassingly low at 75 women to 100 men. The article also found that if women participated as much as men, the GDP would see a 27% rise. This is just one of the ways sexism robs a country, an industry as well as women.

The sexism in Nigeria, largely powered by lack of education which has made it possible to hold on to regressive traditional values, has also manifested itself in the music industry’s model especially in how it treats the women in the industry. Many of the biggest labels have one woman who is usually dubbed the first lady of said label or some other honorific title. The result is that where they are several men under a label – from half a dozen to a dozen – there would be one or two women. And this often means these women are in a precarious situation where if another woman artist is to join said label, they feel their position as first lady/queen, etc could be threatened. A situation like this makes it hard for these women to support themselves because they have to fight for the one or two positions made available for women in the label.

We spoke to three women who are working in the Nigerian music industry about what the sexism in the industry looks like and how bad it is.

Tami Makinde, Music and Culture Journalist

@tamimak_

The Nigerian music industry is inherently androcentric and it’s always been that way for as long as I’ve been privy to observe the industry. Women barely break any glass ceilings and when they do, there’s only one spot reserved on top for the ‘Queen’ diminishing the value and accomplishment of other women who could equally be on the same playing field. The culture is so toxic and hinders the growth of female artists who will have to work twice as hard to command the same attention as their male counterparts.

I think it’s quite a big problem but there have been moments of hope particularly with the new vanguard of female artists coming up these days. It’s so inspiring to see bedroom pop make a name for itself with artists like Ictooicy and SOLIS, and also seeing women like Tems dominate the charts both in Nigeria and the UK where she’s never even performed. Women are clearly making a name for themselves and bypassing the gatekeepers by connecting directly to their fans and audiences, and they are all the better for it because there’s less clamor for one ‘Queen Bee’. Everyone is winning as it should be.

I think we need a change in the way we engage with female artists and their work. There does not need to be one main female artist to stand comfortably in a sea of male artists, we need ten women in the room if possible and we need to show younger girls that there’s room for everyone to make it – regardless of gender. I also heard that women are discriminated against by record labels because of the funding it takes to create a female artists brand and that is just absolute crap.

Bella Alubo, Singer and Songwriter

@bellaalubo

Sometimes I want to share the view of older successful women and say what holds women back is thinking their gender affects the hustle, but denial doesn’t solve problems. Because even if hard work and talent eventually help us breakthrough. suffering isn’t a virtue. It’ll be nice if we didn’t have to.

All is mind. As long as a complete mental shift hasn’t been achieved, everything that exists within society continues to be affected by how people think. If people look at you and the first thing they see is a skewed definition of what they think a woman is, all interactions are affected. I think this is one of the only industries without strict human resource guidelines and so there aren’t really boundaries. A lot of the things we see like managers falling in love with artists or producers hitting on artists or the power dynamic between successful artists and upcoming ones that create room for taking advantage are all very unethical in normal work situations. How big sexism is in the Nigerian industry mirrors the Nigerian society and the norms hardly even matter enough to be called out except in extreme clear situations like rape and physical abuse but there’s a whole lot of mental Olympics that are really not okay if anyone cared to stop & look.

Ending sexism in the Nigerian music industry is kinda like solving global warming. I guess if we could suddenly convince everyone to have sense and realize all human beings are equal and deserving of respect and equal opportunities? I seriously dislike the “women should support women” doctrine because it’s often meant in a sexist way but most minorities that continue to overcome it have done that by banding together to create forces bigger than their problems from the black movement to the LGBT movement, the underlying thing is strength in unity. I’d like to see women intentionally come for the entire market together.

Waye, Singer and Stylist

@wayeofficial

It’s really a thing of the mind and I don’t understand where the origin is from. Maybe the stereotyped belief that women are weaker.

I am always being told that women are harder to manage or harder to control. Or you have to have known a woman from way back to manage her. Like huh? But I really don’t agree because any human can be easy or hard to work with.

Like I said it’s a thing of the mind. Everyone has to break away from that mindset, that female artists are this and that. And honestly, it starts with the people at the forefront of the music in Nigeria they should really start to treat/see male and female artistes as equals. Because the only thing holding them back from doing that is their mindset. Not resources and not the music, it’s all in their head or everyone’s head. To the extent that the female artist starts to see or believe it. It’s not a hard thing to fix but then again it is.
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1. Shirley and POP face cream

Early 90s babies will never know this, please. Let’s leave this one for those born in the late 90s.

2. OG skin problem creams

Pimples? Eczema? Rashes? Just derm it all. Every night before bed, every morning after you wake up. Chai, 90s babies suffered.

3. The OG hair shampoos

Their kegs always ended up as kerosene kegs.

4. OG styling gels

The reigning queens that year.

5. 2000 N Six face cleanser

The other counterpart is “Rubbing Alcohol.” Mostly used by the mothers, so you get a pass if you don’t remember this.

6. OG body creams

Cocoa Butter and Miss Caroline. It was either one or the other. Notable mentions: Skinlight, Looking Good.

7. The OG of face creams

You had to have used one of them. Or all, if your skin problems were follow-come problems.

8. The OG lightening creams

Not everyone will know this, but they were quite popular in the market. Lemonvate, Tempovate, Fashion Fair, Movate.

9. Perfumes

A lot of these perfumes are still in use. But you see that Pucelle… the OG of all OGs.

10. Pink oil.

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The Passing Out Parade (POP) for NYSC Batch C, Stream 1 corps members has been set for the 15th of October, 2020.

The Batch went to camp in November 2019.

At present, corps members who redeployed to Oyo state are being issued their ID cards, and the OYOKOPA magazine for their stream is currently in the works.

A sample of the OyoKopa magazine.

Nothing concrete has been said yet concerning resumption for schools. Any update will be posted subsequently.

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After languishing in development hell for years, a sequel to the two-part 1992/1993 Nollywood blockbuster drama thriller, Living In Bondage, was finally released this past weekend. Even though the movie’s makers have confirmed that this movie’s narrative will mostly stand on its own, there are still plot elements from the original movies one needs to know before seeing the new one – so as to not get lost when certain references are made.

This is why I’ve made this recap for those who’ve never seen the originals or have seen them but need a refresher.

As soon as the movie starts, we meet the protagonist named Andy Okeke (played by Kenneth Okonkwo) and his wife, Merit (played by Nnenna Nwabueze). They’re hella poor and all their efforts to change this have proved futile. Andy has just gotten what looks like yet another outstanding bill and is now delivering a super depressing monologue while giving the audience a peek at his chest in an olive green button-down shirt.

He moans about how his business partners (who he just quit his fifth job to join in a trade) all have their shit together (have bought new cars, houses etc). Merit comes in with dinner and tells him that she’s not bothered by their poverty because she knows that God’s time is the best. Andy rolls his eyes at her, which makes her confess her fear that his desperation would lead to him getting involved in get-rich-quick schemes. Andy dramatically declares that he would never do such a thing.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.

The frustration of being scammed in a bogus investment scheme by someone he thought was his friend, coupled with the stress of Merit being indecently propositioned by different men – including her boss (played by Francis Agu), who actually tries to rape her at some point – drives Andy into a deep depression. Determined to get rich by any means necessary, he asks his best friend, Paul, for “his secret”. Paul is a wealthy, slick-talking man whose outfit in every scene he’s in never lets you forget that you’re watching a movie made in the early 90s.

Get a load of that track suit.

Andy joins the cult and sacrifices the person he loves the most: Merit. On her death bed, a couple of days after the ritual, Merit clocks that Andy has done her dirty even though she stuck by his side through thick and thin. She delivers a monologue that basically boils down to this:

Ghost Merit picks Andy’s traditional wedding to his mistress, Ego (played Ngozi Nwosu) as the perfect time to debut her new look as a discount La Llorona. (Dressed in all white with chalk all over her face.) Andy passes out after seeing ghost Merit, which gives his new bride the idea to run off with all the money she can find lying around the house (₦2.2 Million). Andy later marries a woman – who’s more gold digger than human – named Chinyere (Jennifer Okere). Chinyere steals a ton of money from Andy and attempts to run but suddenly keels over and dies. This is where we find out that Chinyere has been poisoned by her friend named Caro (played by Ngozi Nwaneto) who learned of Chinyere’s plan and wanted the money for herself. On her way to the airport to go start a new life in another country with the money, Caro is the victim of a hit-and-run accident and dramatically dies at the side of the road. All these events play out with the quickness of an SNL sketch, making the whole thing unintentionally hilarious.

Meanwhile, Andy returns to the cult to report his dead wife for not leaving him the fuck alone. To put Merit’s soul to rest, the cult engages in a sacrificial scene that would’ve made PETA lose their minds.

They slaughter a real-life goat onscreen and bathe Andy in its blood.

I will forever respect Kenneth Okonkwo for actually going through with this.

This doesn’t work and ghost Merit returns in the form of a prostitute Andy goes three rounds with before revealing her true form. Andy goes back to the cult and is like, “What the hell??” and is told that the reason Merit’s spirit is now more persistent than the T-1000 in Terminator 2 is because she was innocent in life. He’s also informed by the cult’s madam that the only way to get rid of Merit’s spirit once and for all would be to:

Faced with a lifetime of being haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife or a lifetime without eyesight and a penis, Andy understandably loses his mind. He puts on homeless-chic clothes, goes to live under a bridge, and begins eating handfuls of garbage until he runs into Tina (played by Rita Nzelu), an ex-prostitute and current prayer warrior princess. It’s revealed that back when Tina walked the streets, Andy had drugged and presented her to the cult as a sacrifice –intending to pass her off as Merit. Tina takes him to her church where, after his confession and an intense deliverance session, the members of the church assure him that his sins have been forgiven.

Living In Bondage: Breaking Free is currently in cinemas. You should go check it out. Remember to check back for our review of the movie.
It’s important for people to break out of their comfort zones and try new things. It’s also important for people to know their limits. These 5 celebrities listed below did not know (or refused to acknowledge) their limits and it led to hilarious pieces of pop culture that’ll haunt them forever.

1) Genevieve Nnaji

In 2004, when she and a couple of other Nollywood big names were on a temporary ban from Nollywood for charging too much, Genevieve Nnaji stormed the music scene with a single that no one saw coming (or even wanted) named “No More.” It became a smash hit mostly because it carved a hole for itself in the “so bad it’s good” category.

What no ever talked about, though, was how the song was lowkey a women empowerment anthem. In it, Genevieve sings about how she finally has the strength she needs to move on from an abusive relationship. Here are a few lyrics from the chorus:

“No More hits oh. No more Crying oh. No more fighting oh. No more tears oh. I got my freedom power and more!”

Genevieve Nnaji: a feminist queen ahead of her time. This is why we have decided to stan forever. 🙌

2) Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YkFSAW25rk

2005 (a year during which she was under the same ban Genevieve was under) saw the release of Omotola’s debut album titled “Gba!“. It spawned the single “Naija Lowa,” a generic western-sounding party song that was very much a product of its time. In 2012, she released the single “Feel Alright” (the video above) to raise awareness for an album she planned to release that year named “Me, Myself, and Eyes.”

The album never came out.

3) Jim Iyke

This nigga woke up one morning in 2007 and decided to start his own record label. As if that wasn’t enough, he released a whole ass album and even managed to drag some music big names into the mess of a project. His debut single titled “Who Am I?” featured 2Face, and I’ve spent the better part of my adult life wondering how.

4) 2Face Idibia

In the early 2000s, when TuFace was at the height of his powers, someone convinced him to star in a movie named The Twist alongside Carol Dajuma (née Ekanem), and Emeka Enyiocha. The only thing funnier than his acting was the movie’s plot. In it, TuFace and Emeka Enyiocha play brothers who fall for the same girl (Carol Ekanem). While both brothers fight over who gets to have Carol’s character, she picks Tuface. This leads to a marriage proposal and an offscreen genital bump session. By the end of the movie, it is revealed that all three characters are somehow siblings. The end.

I guess you could say that this movie gave “Flowers In The Attic” a run for its money.

5) Kaffy

Dance queen and Guinness World Record breaker, Kaffy, is well known for choreographing music videos and live shows. However, in 2010, she decided to branch out into the music side of things by releasing a song titled, “Omo Gidi.”

The song was bad. But you know what was worse?

The music video.

6) Tonto Dikeh

I remember where I was seven years ago when Tonto Dikeh dropped this terrible autotune-laden banger. The internet exploded with jokes and parodies, which led to Tonto (who at this point had nicknamed herself “Poko Baby”) convincing herself that we were all haters. When she released the video not long after, the song had somehow become Dubstep, a genre makeover that did nothing to improve the song’s quality.
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Have you ever found yourself watching Nollywood movies and wishing you could lower your inhibitions and become more like the less than reputable characters robbing and killing people on screen? Just for the fun of it?

If your answer is “yes,” you’re in luck.

Here’s a guide on how to morph into an every character Hanks Anuku and J.T Tom West character ever.

1) You have to look the part

There’s a saying that goes “You have to dress for success.” This rule also applies to the world of Nollywood crime. Here’s a list of clothing items you need to blend in:
- Baseball hats (turned to the back)
- Bowler hats (set at a jaunty angle)
- Durags
- Fitted t-shirts (sometimes with the arms cut off)
- Giant sunglasses (even at night)
- Baggy jeans (like early 2000s type shit, no matter what year it is)
2) While we’re on the subject of looking the part, get a trash hairstyle.

Shave half of your head. Get dreads… in different colours! Who cares if getting dreads with your receding hairline makes you look like one of the predators from Predator? It’ll make you more terrifying, and that’s what you need right now.

3) Develop an accent.

Lol. Who else were we going to reference here?

Also, your voice has to drop like six octaves and your speech must become slurred. Basically, if you don’t sound like a tuberculosis victim who has been roofied, you’re not doing it right.

4) GET BUFF AND TALL!

Because your current height (5 feet and 1 inch) and weight (60kg) isn’t going to cut it. GET TO WORK!

5) Hang out with your gang members in either one of these two locations: A tiny filthy one bedroom apartment with way too many people and property in it OR an uncompleted building.

It goes without saying that you have to join a gang. That or you can start your own.

6) While hanging with your gang, drinking and smoking (at the same damn time), place your gun in your crotch, ensuring that trying to retrieve it (in your inebriated state) will lead to your genitals being blown off.

I can’t be the only who’s imagined this happened to all those movie gangsters that have seemingly never heard of a gun holster.
Nigerian adverts have always been strange. I always assumed that the advertising industry would catch up to modern-day standards eventually as our movie industry did. But if these ads I saw yesterday are any indication, I was terribly wrong.

1) Amstel Malta’s “We Got Balls” ad

Amstel Malta ran an ad campaign to celebrate the Super Falcons involvement in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Hilariously tagged “We Got Balls“, the campaign began with a television ad that truly felt like a Malaria-induced fever dream.

It begins with four Nigerian celebrities; Dakore Egbuson-Akande, Tonto Dike, Linda Ejiofor–Suleiman, and Tiwa Savage, hanging out and having a few laughs at what looks like an empty hotel bar. They are wildly overdressed for the occasion but we’ll get to that later. A mysterious figure hidden in the shadows slides a can of Amstel Malta down the bar to the ladies. The person is revealed to be Big Brother Naija star and fake eyelash enthusiast, Cee C, smiling awkwardly.

How long had she been there? No one knows.

The other girls beckon Cee C to join them, and she does. A few moments later, five members of the Super Falcons team literally appear out of thin air, dressed in evening dresses and high-heeled shoes that they’re clearly uncomfortable in. Both groups stare at each other awkwardly for a few seconds before one of the football players snaps her fingers, magically changing her team’s dresses into their Nigerian football jerseys and boots. What follows is a series of reaction shots you just have to see to believe.

Tonto Dike — A WOMAN WHOSE JOB IT IS TO ACT — reacts to the footballers’ clothes changing before their eyes.

Cee C doing the best she can to enthusiastically invite the footballers over to join them.

The footballers rejoice (at varying energy levels) about finally getting a seat at the table.

Cee C gives one of the footballers the saddest high five you’ve ever seen.

Just when you think the ad is about to end, Nollywood actor, Enyinna Nwigwe, shows up in a leather jacket and beret combo.

The girls look at him like:

And he responds by doing this:

Which makes the girls go:

Then the ad ends.

What even was the point of this? If the ad was to celebrate the footballers, why are the showbiz celebrities in it? What was the significance of Eyinna Nwigwe making an appearance? You can tell that Amstel was going for a feminist thing here but succeeded in passing no message at all.

2) Gulder “Own Your Journey” ad

This campaign was an attempt by Gulder to “encourage people to own their journey to success and be the best version of themselves as they journey through life.”

The ad starts with a guy who’s trying to start a furniture business and goes to talk to his uncle about his plans. When he’s finished, his uncle basically tells him this:

Our protagonist isn’t discouraged, though, and orders two bottles of Gulder while telling his uncle not to worry. We skip to our main man meeting a friend at a bar in “the big city.” He tells his friend about his business plans and the friend basically tells him this:

Our protagonist seems pretty confident about his chances, telling his friend to sit back and watch. He then orders two bottles of Gulder on his friend’s tab because he’s broke as hell.

We skip again to our main man and his single employee in the space that they hope will become their furniture warehouse. The employee expresses concern that getting customers in the area they’re in could prove difficult, but our protagonist dismisses his employee’s fears with a wave of the hand and two cans of Gulder.

If you’re sensing a pattern in this story, you’re not alone.

Fast-forward a few years into the future, and our protagonist’s furniture business is successful. While at an event, he’s asked what he would say to all the haters who said his business wouldn’t make it. If you’ve been paying attention, you can probably guess what he responds with:

All I got from this ad is that the main guy has a drinking problem and that his family and friends are terrible people.

3) Pure Bliss

This ad just shows random people in different locations throwing computer-generated packets of Pure Bliss biscuits to each other and going crazy after taking one bite.

There’s this girl who is chilling in her garden and absolutely loses her shit after eating Pure Bliss.

This woman who is at work and suddenly can’t fight the Pure Bliss feeling.

This student leaving a lecture theatre, who no one bats an eye at as he’s doing his Elvis Presley dance.

This couple stranded in the middle of nowhere.

This housewife doing laundry.

And finally, this group of friends I think were Netflix and chilling.

All I got from this is that Pure Bliss is crack.
There’s probably something to be said about the fact that Nollywood has spent the better part of its existence churning out movies about the supernatural, featuring witches, each one more grotesque than the last.

There’s something to be said. I’m not going to be the one who says it, though.

What I’m here to do today is honour the most iconic witches Nollywood has given us; those witches that damaged an entire generation of children by taking up residence in their subconscious and haunting their dreams.

Let’s get into it:

1) Regina Askia’s character in Full Moon

To be honest, I’ve always considered this character more of a Marvel mutant rip-off than a Nollywood witch. This is because she wasn’t evil (like other movie characters with mystical powers at the time). That being said, I think she deserves a spot on this list for that time she set a rapist on fire and that other time she turned her evil stepfather into a statue/pillar of salt.

2) Liz Benson’s character in Diamond Ring

I get that the movie never told us what this character was like when she was alive (except that she was filthy rich). But how else can you explain her ability to reach into the land of the living (from the afterlife) and fuck shit up? She caused a car accident (that killed Bimbo Akintola’s character), struck Teju Babyface’s character down with an illness, and still found the time to appear in RMD’s living room to fuck up his light bulbs and raise Shola Sobowale’s blood pressure. I STAN A DEAD QUEEN OF VENGEANCE AND MULTITASKING.

If you haven’t clocked it yet, I have huge crush on this character.

3) Nneka The Pretty Serpent

Nneka the Pretty Serpent was the first in a long line of Nollywood movies that featured marine spirits coming on land to fuck up the lives of men unfortunate enough to have sex with them. Nneka solidified her bad bitch status in a beach-front fight with a pastor at the end of the first movie. She lost, but she lost gracefully.

4) The witches in Koto Aiye

From blood sacrifices and killings to stylish meeting outfits and choreography, these women served us all the things we didn’t even know we needed from a coven of murderous witches.

5) Karishika

As the official queen of demons (Lilith, who?), Karishika came to Earth with a 20-inch weave, stylish early 90s clothes, and her own theme song! She walked out of a graveyard, took a huge bite out of the neck of the first man she saw, and stole his car! LMAO!

6) Willie Willie

Willie Willie’s sexually ambiguous nature made me wonder whether it deserved a spot on this list or not. But that doesn’t matter because it’s 2019 (inclusiveness for all) and Willie Willie’s M.O of murdering children that sang about it is so badass.

7) The witches from WITCHES

What I love the most about this movie (even more than the witches’ long acrylic nails and theme song) is how the makers made the decision to not stress themselves over naming the movie. It’s kinda like how Ridley Scott made a movie about aliens and named it Aliens.

8) Sakobi

Another marine spirit sent to wreak havoc on Earth, Sakobi made her grand entrance into the world as a giant snake, turned into a beautiful woman (played by Susan Patrick) on a busy road in broad daylight, and set off on her quest to destroy the destinies of men with her vagina.

9) Alex Usifo as Beelzebub in End of the Wicked

I know that he’s not a woman. But this character, who I recently learned was named Beelzebub (after the Philistine god and later demon), gave Dracula a run for his money by spending the better part of the movie’s runtime drinking blood. For that alone, he deserves a spot here.

10) Patience Ozokwor in everything she’s ever been in

Each new character she plays is more wicked than the last. How do you explain that?
After eight death-filled seasons, the pop culture juggernaut that is Game Of Thrones has ended, leaving riots in its wake because the series finale (as we predicted) satisfied no one.

Lee-mao.

But I’m not here to make fun of your frustration. Game of Thrones was a really good show (once) and I know how hard it’ll be finding another show awesome enough to occupy the iron throne-shaped hole it has left in your heart. Which is why I made this list of shows you should get into now that you’re in the market for a new prestige show you can get weirdly obsessed with.

You’re welcome.

1. AMERICAN HORROR STORY

AHS, as it’s fondly called by hardcore fans (i.e. ME), is a horror show that premièred in 2011. It’s an anthology series, which means that each season is presented as a self-contained mini-series with a different set of characters, settings, and, sometimes, actors. Did somebody say BINGE WATCH???

WHY YOU SHOULD STAN:

Because it’s a groundbreaking show that contains the best acting performances you’ve ever seen. You truly haven’t lived till you’ve seen Jessica Lange, Angela Bassett, and Kathy Bates share a scene. The settings of all the seasons currently available are as follows:
- Season 1: A haunted Murder House.
- Season 2: An Asylum run by a sadistic nun, a Nazi psycho doctor, and another sadistic nun who later gets possessed by a demon and rapes a priest.
- Season 3: A Coven of badass fashionable witches.
- Season 4: A Freak Show circus.
- Season 5: A haunted Hotel containing the trapped souls of famous serial killers.
- Season 6: A haunted house located on the same spot as the infamous Roanoke colony.
- Season 7: A Cult of murderous political fanatics.
- Season 8: A future where the Apocalypse has been triggered by the anti-christ and his cult of worshippers.
Also, some plot elements on the show are loosely inspired by real-life events. So you get to excitedly scream “I READ ABOUT THAT GRUESOME MURDER ON WIKIPEDIA!” whenever that happens.

2. BLACK MIRROR

Black Mirror is a British science-fiction show that explores the unexpected consequences of technological advancements and is usually set in an alternative present or future. Think of it like The Twilight Zone but with terrifying futuristic tech thrown in. It’s also an anthology series but in this case, characters, settings, and actors change with every episode. Did somebody say BINGE –

WHY YOU SHOULD STAN:

Every episode messes you up and makes you want to swear off technology. Plus it’s an anthology so you can literally watch random episodes from random seasons without missing a thing. Also, they released a choose-your-own-adventure style movie named Bandersnatch that is one hell of an interactive experience.

3. THE CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA

Based on the Archie comics series of the same name, this show is about Sabrina Spellman, a half-witch half-human who, on her 16th birthday, must learn to reconcile her dual nature while fighting off the evil forces that threaten the safety of her family, friends, and town.

WHY YOU SHOULD STAN:

It has everything you could possibly want in a show about the supernatural. Powerful witches and warlocks, demons, werewolves, angels moonlighting as witch hunters, incubi, occasionally gruesome murders, orgies, and the devil himself depicted as a giant, wildly unattractive animatronic goat in a jute hoodie.

What’s not to love?

4. THE HANDMAID’S TALE

Set in a dystopian future, this show depicts a world where fertility rates reduce drastically due to sexually transmitted diseases and environmental pollution. In the aftermath of a second American civil war, a totalitarian government forms and subjects all fertile women into becoming childbearing slaves named “Handmaids” for the infertile elite.

WHY YOU SHOULD STAN:

Because it’s what our world is slowly becoming the way things are going. In the show’s universe, it’s not just fertile women that get shat on. ALL women are treated like trash by the theonomic government and, by law, aren’t allowed to work, own property, handle money, or learn to read.

Also, the performances are amazing. Elizabeth Moss, who plays the main character named June Osbourn/Offred, deserves every acting award under the sun.

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