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• Reading List: December.

  

  Non-Fiction: David Graeber and David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything. A New History of Humanity.Amia Srinivasan: The Right to Sex.Laura Lee: A History of... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Shows of the Year

  

  Best new show:YellowjacketsA successful high school soccer team gets stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash - and the story of survival is told in... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Films of the Year

  His House (2020, Remi Weekes)Minari (2020, Lee Isaac Chung)Passing (2021, Rebecca Hall)Nomadland (2020, Chloé Zhao)Unpregnant (2021, Rachel Lee... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Music of the Year

  Albums:Goat Girl: On All Fours.Dry Cleaning: New Long Leg.Moaning Lisa: Something Like This But Not This.Kučka: Wrestling.Hana Vu: Nicole Kidman / Anne... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Station Eleven – Would You Die for a Stranger?

  

  Station Eleven: 1x05 The Severn City Airport. Elizabeth: Well played, Marc Antony. You’re a star. In many ways, The Severn City Airport is constructed like a... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Station Eleven – But I’m Safe Now.

  

  Station Eleven: 1x04 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Aren’t Dead.One way to think about the physical graphic novel of Station Eleven is the meaning it has... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Expanse – Everybody on This Ship Has Something They Regret.

  

  The Expanse: 6x03 Force Projection. It is quite remarkable how James Holden keeps stumbling into the crosshairs of history again and again, forever driven by hi... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Station Eleven - It is Better to Not Be Noticed.

  

  Station Eleven: 1x03 Hurricane. Survival is insufficient. I don’t want to live the wrong life and then die.Station Eleven’s first and third episode could exist... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Novice

  

  One of the reasons why I find Megan Abbott’s thrillers so captivating is that each time she dives into a character’s obsession – cheerleading, gymnastics, balle... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Station Eleven: I’m Safe.

  

  Station Eleven: 1x02 A Hawk from a Handsaw.To the monsters, we’re the monsters. This hasn’t really been a prominent part of the show yet, but I think about... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Expanse – That’s What I’m Here For.

  

  The Expanse: 6x02 Azure Dragon. Azure Dragon has everything you could possibly want from an action-laden episode of The Expanse: A space chase between the... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Station Eleven – So Now We’re Not Strangers.

  

  Station Eleven: 1x01 How odd that both Station Eleven and Y: The Last Man would come out in the same year, the second year of a world-wide pandemic. Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - She Applies Good Pressure.

  

  moaning lisa | something. death valley girls | run run rocky. the kills | doing it to death. courtney barnett | here's the thing. snail mail | glory. hana vu |... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Expanse - The One Thing I Liked About You is You Always Sucked at Lying.

  

  The Expanse: 6x01 Strange Dogs. The best way to describe Strange Dogs, the first episode of the final season, is wariness. It permeates every storyline, from th... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: November.

  Non-Fiction: Sam Quinones: The Least of Us.Rafia Zakaria: Against White Feminism.Charlie Jane Anders: Never Say You Can't Survive.Joanna Chiu: China... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Bite

  

  After 2020, many television series skipped over the existence of Covid. Not the Kings, who in last year’s season of The Good Fight, had an episode acknowledge... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Passing

  

  In Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut Passing, set in the late 1920s (and based on the 1929 novella by Nella Larsen), there is a line between the joy that comes... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 5/11/21

  

  Politics: The leaking of many damning internal documents revealing Facebook's entanglement with and inability to moderate radical right-wing groups, some of... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Y: The Last Man - Table of Contents

  Season One: The Day BeforeWould the World Be KindNeilKaren and BenjiMann HuntWeird Al is DeadMy Mother Saw a MonkeyReady. Aim. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Y: The Last Man – You Have No Idea Who You’re Dealing With.

  

  Y: The Last Man: 1x10 Victoria. We start the final episode of Y: The Last Man’s first and hopefully not last season with a dinner scene from hell that... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO