Cathy Leaves
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Cathy Leaves' Cellar Door Blog
http://cathyleaves.blogspot.com/
Reviews of current television shows, Orphan Black, The Good Wife, Orange is the New Black, and complete reviews of Bomb Girls, Skins, Popular, Caprica, My So-Called Life, Dollhouse. Pop Culture and Politics.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 774 )
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The Expanse - We're Here to Help.
The Expanse: 4x04 Retrograde.I think as unique as Avasarala is, and as different as their backgrounds are, the closest to her cynical realism that any other... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Expanse - I Know What You Are.
The Expanse: 4x03 Subduction.I have really enjoyed the way in which The Expanse has tackled the reverberations of Holden activating the ring gates through its... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Expanse - to Reach out and Reach out and Reach out
The Expanse: 4x02 Jetsam.On Mars, Bobbie, who we find out in the following interrogation has been dishonourably discharged from the Martian Navy and is now a... Read more
Posted on 15 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Expanse - We Are Creatures of Space
The Expanse - 4x01 New Terra.Previously on The Expanse, James Holden inadvertently (which is the way in which he mostly does things) opened a ring network to th... Read more
Posted on 15 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
For All Mankind
There are several moments throughout Ronald D. Moore’s Battlestar Galactica reboot in which the crucial question that humanity faces is not how to survive, but... Read more
Posted on 10 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
“We Were Devoid of a Fundamental Understanding of Afghanistan"
"The interviews, through an extensive array of voices, bring into sharp relief the core failings of the war that persist to this day. They underscore how three... Read more
Posted on 10 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: November
Non-Fiction: Leslie Jamison: The Recovering.Mark Greif: Against Everything.Scott Stossel: My Age of Anxiety. Fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Lied Zum Sonntag
Garbage Screaming Females - Because The Night Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains (live in 2012)I guess the answer to if my sexuality is Shirley Manson... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Dickinson
Halfway through Dickinson’s first season, the family celebrates Christmas, and Emily (Hailee Steinfeld) finds a roll of papers from her absent father, who at... Read more
Posted on 10 November 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Midsommar
I went into Midsommar by Ari Aster with no preconception or spoilers about what was about to happen. I think that's a good way to watch the film the first... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Formal
"Meanwhile, the House voted on Thursday to make its impeachment inquiry formal.The measure passed 232 to 196 with no Republican support. Two Democrats joined... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: October.
Fiction: Jeff VanderMeer: Annihilation. Jeff VanderMeer: Authority. Jeff VanderMeer: Acceptance.Becky Chambers: To Be Taught, If Fortunate. Ann Leckie: Ancillar... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Campaign Update, October 2019
Much has changed since the first debates of June. Elizabeth Warren has closed in on front-runner Joe Biden and is leading some polls. Warren is very successfull... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtape - and My Heart Wants the Ugliest Things.
sleater-kinney | the future is here. angel olsen | all mirrors. carla dal forno | no trace. vagabon | water me down. shura | religion (you can lay your hands... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
On the Difficulty of Having Powered Best Friends.
I’ve been thinking about the friendship fault lines in the competing universes of Marvel’s Jessica Jones and DC’s Supergirl, and how weird it is to watch the tw... Read more
Posted on 11 October 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: September
Non-Fiction: Emily Nussbaum: I Like to Watch. Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution.Kate Zambreno: Heroines.Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Wilder Girls
In Rory Power's Wilder Girls, a mysterious illness ominously named the Tox has taken hold on an isolated island which hosts Raxter, an all-girls school. Read more
Posted on 29 September 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
“Here Am I. Send Me!”
Unbelievable begins with an hour-long episode that may count among the darkest and most hopeless hours of television that I have watched this year. Read more
Posted on 16 September 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: August.
Non-Fiction: Jia Tolentino: Trick Mirror. Reflections on Self-delusion.Fiction: Samantha Shannon: The Priory of the Orange Tree.Riley Redgate: The Final... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – This Can’t Have Been for Nothing.
The Handmaid's Tale: 3x13 Mayday.And the Lord said, 'I have seen my people in bondage, and I have heard their cry. I know their sorrows and I am come to... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO