Cathy Leaves
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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 ( 778 )
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The Handmaid’s Tale - I Tell, Therefore You Are.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 2x11 Holly.Last week, when it finally became too much to discuss this show as a fictional narrative without clearly pointing out how much... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – Is This Now?
Westworld: 2x10 The Passenger.Dolores: You’re almost the man I remember. But there are flaws. A word, a gesture, tiny fracture that grows into a chasm. Read more
Posted on 28 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid's Tale - Will I Ever See You Again?
The Handmaid's Tale: 2x10 The Last Ritual.Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld - You Think You’re on Your Own Little Tailor-made Narrative.
Westworld: 2x09 Vanishing Point.Emily: You haven’t lost yourself to pretending, you are in your very essence a lie. Vanishing points, where two parallel lines... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale - It Does No Good to Want the Impossible.
The Handmaid's Tale: 2x09 Smart Power.June: That’s what I am now, my circumstances have been reduced. I suppose I am one of the lucky ones. I still have... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – This World Was Not My True Home.
Westworld: 2x08 Kiksuya.This is the wrong world.A few episodes ago, Dolores insisted with all of her might that family and love were chains that kept the hosts... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale - It Was Nice Working with You Too.
The Handmaid's Tale: 2x08 Women's Work.So far, we have seen many implicit and explicit ways in which Gilead uses violence against women. It tortures, maims,... Read more
Posted on 08 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld - The Humans Are Playing at Resurrection.
Westworld: 2x07 Les Écorchés.The story of the fire itself. An “Écorché” is a human figure, drawn or painted or sculpted, with the skin removed to reveal the... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: May.
Non-Fiction: Michelle Tea: Against Memoir.Eileen Myles: Chelsea Girls.Maggie Nelson: The Red Parts.Fiction: M-E Girard: Girl Mans Up.Tana French: The Trespasser... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – What If I Don’t Find Her.
The Handmaid's Tale: 2x07 After.Well jesus fuck. After is about remembrance. About grief. About what it feels like to lose a person that you can’t live... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – This is a Test.
Westworld: 2x06 Phase Space.It begins with Arnold, telling Dolores that she is on a path that will take her beyond the park, a path that he isn’t sure how to... Read more
Posted on 30 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – I Scared Myself.
The Handmaid's Tale: 2x06 First Blood.Where to begin, with this tour de force of an episode? Maybe with Serena Joy, this central miracle of the show. Read more
Posted on 24 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld – I Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself.
Westworld: 2x05 Akane no Mai.Maeve: I told you I’ve found a new voice. Now we use it. This episode is as good as this show gets, especially in the parts set in... Read more
Posted on 24 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – So That Happened.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 2x05 Seeds. For a show that already started bleakly, and has spent so much time on the misery and violence that Gilead inflicts upon... Read more
Posted on 17 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld - If You Aim to Cheat the Devil, You Owe Him an Offering.
Westworld: 2x04 The Riddle of the Sphinx. You still don’t understand the real game we’re playing here. If you’re looking forward, you’re looking in the wrong... Read more
Posted on 15 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid's Tale - Let Me Forget Me.
The Handmaid's Tale: 2x04 Other Women.It is always important to remember that the premise of The Handmaid’s Tale is that June, a straight white woman, never... Read more
Posted on 10 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtape - There Was Never Any Middle Ground.
Louis Dazycamp cope | ufo lighter. mod con | neighbourhood. japanese breakfast | the woman that loves you. rhye | count to five. grouper | parking lot. poliça... Read more
Posted on 10 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
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