Most See Media! Check out Amazon Prime Video's Jungle!

Imagine bringing Belly into current times and add in elements of UK culture and UK Grime Music, the combination of that is Amazon Prime Videos Jungle. It's a six episode mini-series where there's several narratives of characters in London where the first three episodes focus on a character named Gogo (played by actor, Ezra Elliott) and his relationship with a loose canon character by the name of Slim (played by UK Rapper, RA). From a robbery which then leads to a chain of severals events and a conclusion and then the remaining three episodes switch us to a young man named Marcus (played by UK rapper Poundz) and his life being an older brother to his younger bro where they are living with their mother strung out on drugs. Marcus (no spoilers) has an event that occured where eventually karma catches up to him. What you may notice or may not notice is Prime Video's Jungle is almost a who's who of the UK Grime rap scene with different UK rappers and R&B singers such as IAMDDB, Big Narstie, Amaria BB, J Fado, K Koke & more playing diffrent roles in the episodes.

With such an array of UK music artists there's a musical movie element to Jungle where dialog is made up of UK Rap and R&B songs. And it's not in a Grease style type of way, sorry no disrespect to John Travolta. And like this movie called Crash, we have several characters where they are all in the same city and I don't want to spoil the movie but you will find the characters are connected in more ways than one. The setting is unique and reminiscent of Belly from the neon lighting and cinematography. It's in modern time but from seeing different imagery such as holograms and holographic technology, you would feel like the series is set in the future. It's definitely well worth checking out on a weekend day and evening when you're looking for something to binge watch.

Hard Hitting on #NetFlix!

Are you Green with envy? Not only is today St. Patrick's Day. No Irish here. Sorry we don't celebrate but we have some green and yellow to celebrate. This Friday, Netflix releases another one of their highly anticipated Marvel Netflix series following up DareDevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage with Iron Fist. Rounding out the formation of a street level Avengers like team known as the Defenders for the smaller screen. Comic aficionados will know Iron Fist and Luke Cage "Power Man" to be the duo known as Heroes For Hire.





So far most critics have not gave positive reviews but Netflix only permitted critics and media outlets to only see 6 episodes of the season. As a fan and critic as well and from experience with viewing Netflix's Luke Cage that the series could still be worth watching as we will have an additional other 6 episodes of the series. While some are on the fence of Finn Jones casting of Iron Fist (The ‘Iron Fist’ White Savior Controversy: Creator and Stars Respond to the Backlash-- READ MORE HERE). Some feel given the current times that Marvel might have missed their chance for diversity to cast the character of Iron Fist which yes it worked in the 70's Kung Fu movie era to make the Iron Fist a white male with mystic Kung Fu super power but we are in 2017 so making on of Asia or Asia America's rising stars as the hero might have been a better idea. And just with the prior Marvel Netflix series, the show also bares the burden of having to tell and also modernizing the origins of the superhero to both fans and newcomers not familiar with heroes such as Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Daredevil and Jessica Jones.



Besides the other remaining episodes of Iron Fist that were not up for review as they premiered with the series today, there is plenty of reason to watch the series such as Rosario Dawson who as the Night Nurse does a stupendous job being support to the street level heroes being instrumental in all the Marvel Netflix series. Another detail noticed is another breakout character is Colleen Wing who is a martial arts teacher and finds herself uniting with Iron Fist to defend New York from the criminal element and the evil ninja organization known as the Hand. Have a good weekend, be safe, don't drink too much this Friday and definitely add Iron Fist to your Netflix cue list!