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• The Handmaid’s Tale – We’re Here for All of Those Women.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x07 Shattered.If there is one noticeable difference in tone since previous seasons of this show, it’s that we’re naming things as they are... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - Are You on Board?

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x06 Surprise. All the tension of this episode – it’s the shortest of the season so far, and yet the most propulsive in terms of story–... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: April.

  Non-Fiction: Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals: Mao's Last Revolution. Reid Mitenbuler: Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age.... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - Are You Getting Us Out?

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x05 Janine.At the centre of Janine are two conversations. One compares suffering, inflicted – what it means to have been deliberately... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - This is My Turn.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x04 Promotion.I feel like it breaks us every day. I don’t really have much in terms of theories about where all of these characters will... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - There’s No God Here.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x03 Devotion.This is the first episode of the final season that felt like it existed in the No Man’s Land between tying up some... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets - Do You Remember What We Promised?

  

  Yellowjackets: 3x10 Full Circle.You deserve everything that’s coming to you!What an appropriate title Full Circle is for the third season finale! Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – It is Not Over.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x02 Exile. The only way is to show up and fight. I think the animating question of this final season of The Handmaid’s Tale, with limits... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – Now We’re Safe.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x01 Train.It’s been two and a half years since June and Serena boarded that train leaving Toronto! It’s hard to return to the world of... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – Death is Around Every Corner.

  

  Yellowjackets: 3x09 How the Story Ends. Surviving this was never the reward. Regardless of what else you take out of this season of Yellowjackets – a frustratio... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: March.

  Non-Fiction: Frances Fitzgerald: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam.Max Hastings: Vietnam. An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975.Yang Jisheng:... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – What Are You Doing Alive?

  

  Yellowjackets: 3x08 A Normal, Boring Life.Tai: Our futures would be fucked, this will follow us for the rest of our lives. This place will follow us for the res... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - He Cast His Gaze Towards the Sea.

  

  pj harvey | teclo. japanese breakfast | orlando in love. sharon van etten the attachment theory | idiot box. zzzahara | it didn't mean nothing. greentea peng ... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – It Doesn’t Want Them Here.

  

  Yellowjackets: 3x07 Croak.We just need to find these people so we can go home.Three seasons into Yellowjackets and it looks like the show is completely... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Favourite Books I've Read This Year (in Progress)

  

  Non-Fiction: Manisha Sinha: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920.Wright Thompson: The Barn: The Secret History of a... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets - Someone is Trying to Kill Us.

  

  Yellowjackets: 3x06 Thanksgiving (Canada).We’re at the halfway point of the season, so it’s only fitting that the episode ends in a shock, a complete turn of... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets - None of This is Who We Are.

  

  Yellowjackets: 3x05 Did Tai Do That?I like that you’re not afraid of the bad parts of yourself anymore.The most interesting part about the adult storyline in... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – I’ve Already Lost.

  

  Yellowjackets: 3x04 12 Angry Girls and 1 Drunk Travis. I think this is the first week where I’m genuinely fascinated by the structure of the episode, but can’t... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Presence

  

  Contains spoilers for Presence, a film that I think is most effective the least the viewer knows about it beforehand. I’ve always been a fan of haunted house... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: February.

  Non-Fiction: Richard Overy: Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945.Steve Coll: The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO