If you’re like me and powered through the eight episodes of the new Netflix hit Forever (a show I’ve called the best new show of 2025), you may be looking for something to watch to fill the void as we ...

Judy Blume’s iconic 1975 novel, Forever, is a groundbreaking story about first relationships, first love and…the first time. Now, 50 years later, TV luminary Mara Brock Akil, the showrunner behind ...

Forever season 2 gets an encouraging response from creator and showrunner Mara Brock Akil. Recently debuting on Netflix with Lovie Simone and Michael Cooper Jr. in the lead roles,the eight-episode ...

At first glance, those familiar with author Judy Blume won’t recognize the Netflix series “Forever” named after her classic 1975 novel. Instead of tracking the book’s romance of Michael and Katherine, ...

Netflix has officially renewed Mara Brock Akil’s beloved teen romance series “Forever” for a second season, along with a third and final season of Michelle Buteau’s “Survival of the Thickest.” ...

Chances are, you probably missed this critically acclaimed 2025 Netflix series that flew under the radar despite earning a remarkable Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 97%. Somehow, even though ...

While cutting together scenes for the new series “Forever,” Mara Brock Akil, who has created shows like “Girlfriends,” “Being Mary Jane,” and “The Game,” recalls asking her video editor to pause for a ...

L.A. has long been a beacon for the arts. So it’s only fitting that “Forever,” the Netflix series that showrunner Mara Brock Akil envisioned as “a love story within a love letter to Los Angeles,” ...

Simone and Cooper possess magnetic chemistry, capturing the joyous innocence of first love and the desperate uncertainty of the future, especially as real life seeps into the bubble they try to form ...

Netflix has extended two of its young adult romance adaptations: “Forever” has been renewed for Season 2, and a third season of “My Life With the Walter Boys” has been greenlit ahead of the series’ ...

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