Cathy Leaves
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Cathy Leaves' Cellar Door Blog
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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 ( 774 )
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That Girl is Forever.
“That’s what parenthood was about, wasn’t it? Slowly understanding your child less and less until she wasn’t yours anymore but herself. Read more
Posted on 07 October 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Star Trek: Discovery
Spoilers up to Episode 3: Context is for Kings.One of the main complaints or commentaries on this new Star Trek show, the first since Enterprise which ended in... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading Notes: Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy
Spoiler warning for all of it, probably.5/10/17(at this point, about a fourth into Acceptance, the third part of the trilogy). Read more
Posted on 05 October 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: September
Fiction:Mohsin Hamid: Exit West. N.K. Jemisin: The Inheritance Trilogy.C.B. Lee: Not Your Sidekick.Films: Okja (2017, Joon-ho Bong).Christine (2016, Antonio... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Point of White Supremacy
To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 28/09/17
Politics:An often overlooked aspect in midst of stories about refugees coming to Europe is the fact that LGBTQI* refugees sometimes require protection from othe... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: August.
Non-Fiction: Ytasha Womack: Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture.Fiction: Yiyun Li: The Vagrants. Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Refugees.N.K.... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black – Freedom Looks Different to Everyone.
Orphan Black: 5x10 To Right the Wrongs of Many.Five years of this, and what I can find are disconnected thoughts on what Orphan Black was – and how it... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Pretty Little Liars – Because Without Fear, There Can Be No Courage.
What if we chose to interpret the ending of this show, seven or eight years in the making, differently from what is obviously expected of us? Read more
Posted on 12 August 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black - Come on Meathead, Stay with Me.
Orphan Black: 5x09 One Fettered Slave.Just remember my lads. Death is nothing at all, I’ve only slipped into the next room. You can call me by my old familiar... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Not Great Bob
North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtape - i Gave up on Everything.
Alex Russell Flintvagabon | minneapolis. waxahatchee | brass beam. cable ties | cut me down. feist | wish i didn't miss you. vagabon | cold apartment. solange... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black - To My Galaxy of Women.
Orphan Black: 5x08 Guillotines Decide.Siobhan: We do what we can. Each of us, in our own way. And, we do it for each other. Chipping at the devil till he’s done. Read more
Posted on 03 August 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: July.
Non-Fiction: Maggie Nelson: The Red Parts. William Gibson: Spook Country.William Gibson: Zero History.Films: Logan (2017, James Mangold).Wonder Woman (2017,... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
A Tarantino Remake of The West Wing
This whole thing feels like a descent into madness. “They’ll all be fired by me,” he said. “I fired one guy the other day. I have three to four people I’ll... Read more
Posted on 28 July 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black – I Have a Right to Know.
Orphan Black: 5x07 Gag or Throttle.Kira: Are you okay? Who hurt you?Rachel: All of them. Rachel Duncan was the child of the forefathers of evolution. Read more
Posted on 27 July 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black - With Fortune and Fiction, That’s How the Patriarchy Works.
Orphan Black: 5x06 Manacled Slim Wrists.To her fair works did nature linkThe human soul that through me ran;And much it grieved my heart to thinkWhat man has... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black - Defy Them. Defy Them.
Orphan Black: 5x05 Ease for Idle Millionaires.The core realisation in this episode comes in a heightened, conflicted conversation between Delphine and Cosima... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black – I Wasn’t a Good Sister to You.
Orphan Black: 5x04 Let the Children and Childbearers Toil.The fourth episode of this final season of Orphan Black sets the stage of what is to come. Read more
Posted on 13 July 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: June.
Non-Fiction: Jessa Crispin: Why I'm Not A Feminist.Shulamith Firestone: The Dialectics of Sex.Roxane Gay: Hunger.Fiction: Lynne Tillman: Someday This Will Be... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO