Mandy Treccia was promoted to Executive Editor in 2016 after serving as Editorial Director from 2012-2015. She is an avid TV watcher and card carrying fan girl prone to sudden bursts of emotion, ranging from extreme excitement to blind rage during her favorite shows and has on more than once occasion considered having a paper bag on hand to get her through some tough TV moments. Her taste in TV tends to rival that of a thirteen-year-old girl, but she’s okay with that.
Current Favorite network shows: The Vampire Diaries, The Flash, Supergirl, Timeless, Lucifer, Once Upon A Time, How to Get Away with Murder, Modern Family, Black-ish, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Cable Shows: Veep, The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Shadowhunters
Guilty Pleasures: I have no shame when it comes to TV
Soap: General Hospital
Recent Articles
Legacies Review: Dark! Josie Rises
The latest hour of Legacies hovered on the border of anticlimactic and game changing with a strange mix of obvious…
Legacies Review: Welcome to Kai Parker’s World
Kai Parker made his triumphant return to the Vampire Diaries universe last night on the latest hour of Legacies. As…
Legacies Review: Football & Fighting
The annual Mystic Falls High vs the Salvatore School flag football game went off with a lot of hitches on…
Legacies Season 2 Premiere Review: Hopeless in Mystic Falls
“I’ll Never Give up Hope” mostly gave the monsters a rest while it set up several storylines and potential relationship perils for the season.
Shadowhunters Series Finale Review: You Can See Me
“All Good Things…” A fitting title for the Shadowhunters finale…even if we desperately wish this was not the end. Last…
Shadowhunters Review: City of Glass
This week’s hour of Shadowhunters passed by in a blur of action, emotion, and OMG is that really happening?!?! moments….
Shadowhunters Obliterate My Love
We’ve reached the point of the Shadowhunters season where nothing is going well for our favorite characters. Call it the…
Shadowhunters Review: Halloween Hellscape
Oh, Alec. What did you do? The latest hour of Shadowhunters unfolded like a slow motion car wreck. We saw…
Shadowhunters Review: Project Heavenly Fire
Victor Aldertree resurfaced on Shadowhunters. And, to the surprise of no one who’s been paying attention, he remains the worst….
Shadowhunters Review: Stay with Me
We have to start with that dance. Shadowhunters opened with the kind of bait and switch that often makes fans…
Shadowhunters Review: What Makes Us Better?
Shadowhunters gave us a lot to think about this week. It’s easy to get lost in the moral gray area…
Shadowhunters Review: Mad for Loving You
Shadowhunters dialed the creepiness factor to eleven million this week. Why are you so obsessed with your sister, Jonathan? And…
Shadowhunters Review: Force without Wisdom
The Downworlders are at war. Last night’s Shadowhunters brought Heidi back into the fold (Remember her? Sired by Simon, experimented…
Shadowhunters Review: Doing Things the Mundane Way
Is it too early to start complaining about pacing (again)? Say what you want about Shadowhunters (and it’s the internet…
Shadowhunters Final Season Premiere Review: Aren’t All the Legends True?
Shadowhunters returned for its final season after a nine month hiatus with “Lost Souls.” The (technically) midseason premiere resumed a…
Legacies Review: Will You Be My Boyfriend?
After its midseason break Legacies returned this week to give us long awaited answers. Naturally those answers led to even…
Timeless Movie Review: Timing is Everything
It couldn’t have been easy to write a series finale for a show that’s cheated death twice. After all, the…
Legacies Review: Family is Always and Forever
As promised in last week’s previews, “Mombie Dearest”brought the twins’ biological mother back from her untimely grave.
