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 ( 781 )
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Westworld - There is Beauty in What We Are.
Westworld: 2x03 Virtù e Fortuna.First of, this season of Westworld requires an exercise in self-introspection – which parts of this world still move me? What... Read more
Posted on 10 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – It’s Truly Amazing What We Can Get Used To.
The Handmaid's Tale: 2x03 Baggage.June: No mother is ever completely a child’s idea of what a mother should be. And I suppose it works the other way around as... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – Gilead is Within You.
The Handmaid's Tale: 2x02 Unwomen.I attempted to track how many times I had to pause Unwomen, until I made it all the way through the episode. Read more
Posted on 03 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld - Strange Moonlight Can Be Just as Frightening as the Dark.
Westworld: 2x02 Reunion.It looks like the stars have been scattered across the ground. Have you ever seen anything so full of splendour? Read more
Posted on 02 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: April
Non-Fiction: Deborah Nelson: Tough Enough. Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil, Nelson.Fiction: Anchee Min: Red Azalea.Anchee Min: Pearl of... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale - Someone Will Come for You.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 2x01 June.This immediate thing, about this show: how close this horror feels. A constant tension, a constant feeling of dread, a perpetual... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 26/4/18
Politics: More about the Gibsonian combination of cutting edge technology in an authoritarian polity willing to use it to its advantage: China is developing a... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld - I Have One Last Role to Play: Myself.
Westworld - 2x01 Journey Into Night.Dreams don't mean anything, Dolores. They're just noise. They're not real. What is real? That which is... irreplaceable. Tha... Read more
Posted on 25 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Good Fight
We're living in a time of farce, not tragedy.I came into this season with two distinctive conversations in mind. One started with a question about singular,... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Link 11/4/18
Politics: An interview with Chris Wylie, one of the founders of Cambridge Analytica who leaked about the firm's usage of Facebook data to target users in the... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Annihilation
This is the most beautiful piece that will be written about Alex Garland's adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's novel. The way this film now reverberates through me... Read more
Posted on 08 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 3/3/18
Politics:‘Surveillance capitalism’ was the term coined in 2015 by Harvard academic Shoshanna Zuboff to describe this large-scale surveillance and modification o... Read more
Posted on 03 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: March.
Non-Fiction: Amy Fusselman: Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space, and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted, and Afraid to Die.Fiction: Min Jin Lee... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Always and Never at Home
Instead they’ve produced a metastasizing cancer by quickening gentrification, eroding the complex fabric of neighborhoods to the status of mere way stations, an... Read more
Posted on 07 March 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: February
Non-Fiction: Ron Chernow: Grant.Mary Gaitskill: Somebody With A Little Hammer. Fiction: Samira Ahmed: Love, Hate and Other Filters. Angie Thomas: The Hate U... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Blade Runner 2049
Freeform, many spoilersTwo moments stand out in this three hour tour-de-force, so many years in the making. Early in the film, protagonist K (either from Kafka'... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
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There are two things on my mind right now, disparate and hard to combine. The weird and entirely new feeling of faint homesickness, caused by the Winter Olympic... Read more
Posted on 18 February 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
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The students did not stand for this. In interviews, posts, and tweets, they brought antibodies to the info pathogens. Newtown parents, Las Vegas adults, and... Read more
Posted on 18 February 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Das Lied Zum Sonntag
Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - No Place I'd Rather BeWe're a thousand miles from comfort, we have traveled land and seaBut as long as you are with me,... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: January.
Fiction: Naomi Alderman: Disobedience. Lidia Yuknavitch: The Book of Joan. Renée Watson: This Side of Home. Elif Batuman: The Idiot.Iain M. Banks: Consider... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO