Mónica Marie Zorrilla

Mónica covers the shows and movies that geeks love at Inverse— 28 hours a week, every week.

Most recently, she served as a full-time reporter for Variety, covering the business of television and writing features; she later contributed to the entertainment trade on a freelance basis.

In 2020, she was a staffer at Adweek, breaking news in the advertising and marketing landscape. Before moving in April 2019 to Minneapolis, Minn. (where she currently resides), Mónica worked as a full-time general assignment reporter focusing on arts, culture, and entertainment news at two hyperlocal Philly news outlets, Billy Penn and AL DÍA News Media. In 2018, she was distinguished as Philadelphia's Culture Reporter of the Year by the Pen and Pencil Club, the country's oldest press club.

A Cuban-American native of Miami, Mónica earned her B.A. in English (with minors in Psychology and Spanish) from Haverford College in 2017. She began her writing career during her senior year. She is currently working toward her Master's degree from New York University in a virtual program helmed by journalist Adam Penenberg. Steve Zahn portrayed Penenberg in the 2003 fact-based flick "Shattered Glass," opposite "Star Wars" darling Hayden Christensen. She’ll don a violet cap-and-gown in May 2023.

Besides what's on-screen, Mónica loves watching her rabbit, Kiwi, do absolutely anything (because it's always super cute).

The Inverse Interview

How Marvel’s Most Overlooked Show Could Set the Stage for 'Secret Wars'

The new villain in Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur might have some ties to the MCU.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
Yellowjackets

'Yellowjackets' is Borrowing From 'Moon Knight's Worst Sin

Let’s talk about Taissa.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
Retrospective

Before She Was She-Hulk, Tatiana Maslany Played A Whole Bunch of Clones

10 years ago, Maslany became a star in a riveting biopunk thriller.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
Yellowjackets

'Yellowjackets' Episode 2’s Ending Finally Answered Season 1’s Biggest Mystery

These Yellowjackets don't sting. But they do bite.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
Yellowjackets

'Yellowjackets' Season 2 Steals a Trick From 'Lost’s Most Game-Changing Season

Lost's wildest change in Season 4 makes a return in Yellowjackets' sophomore outing.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
Yellowjackets

'Yellowjackets' First Big Season 2 Needle-Drop Foreshadows Its Greatest Conflict

Did Shauna really just eat that? Honey, you bet your life she did.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
Retrospective

'The Terror' Turned History into a Horror Show — And Changed TV Forever

The supernatural horror anthology series aired its first episode on AMC five years ago today.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
Yellowjackets

'Yellowjackets' Season 2 Premiere’s Ending Answers the Show’s Biggest Mystery

Shauna gets an earful.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
News

'Mission: Impossible 8' Brings Back a Character Only Hardcore Fans Will Remember

Remember CIA Analyst William Donloe? Well, he's back for one last impossible mission.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
Movies

'Renfield' Will Be a Direct Sequel to 1931's 'Dracula'... Which Killed Renfield

Nicolas Cage carries the torch — or should we say cape — from the original Count Dracula, Bela Lugosi.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
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'Fall' Is So Intense You’ll Need to Watch Another Movie After It to Wind Down

'Shazam 2's Grace Caroline Currey stars in a white-knuckle adventure.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
News

Ben Affleck Doesn’t Plan on Joining James Gunn’s DC Universe: "Absolutely Not"

Get ready to say goodbye to Batfleck.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
Trailer

Steven Yeun and Ali Wong Take Their Road-Rage Revenge to the Extreme in A24’s 'BEEF'

"Revenge is best served raw."

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
News

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein Could Mean an Exciting New Era For the Director

His relationship with Netflix is bearing strange fruit.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
Review

'Boston Strangler' is a Suffocating True-Crime Slog

Not even Keira Knightley's comeback to moody period dramas can save Boston Strangler from strangling itself.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
TV

“The Convert” Takes The Mandalorian In a Dark New Direction

Who’s the “convert” in this episode, anyway?

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
Review

'Yellowjackets' Season 2 Takes the Teen Terror to Bewildering New Heights

In Yellowjackets Season 2, hell is a teenage girl (trapped in the woods).

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
TV

Critics Think 'Mrs. Davis' Could Be One of the Best Sci-Fi Shows of the Year

Finally, a nun fights AI.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
Marvel

Daredevil Recasting Sets It Even Further Apart From the Netflix Show

Born Again will have this Better Call Saul alum step into the heels of Kingpin's wife.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla
The Last of Us

'The Last of Us' Needs to Abandon This Tired Dystopian Trope

Leave this trope at Hogwarts, on Pandora, or in District 12, please.

By Mónica Marie Zorrilla