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 ( 779 )
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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 -
Orphan Black - I Am a Mother, and a Homemaker.
Orphan Black: 5x03 Beneath Her Heart.Alison: Who are we really?Cosima: Yeah, that’s the existential question, isn’t it? Beneath Her Heart works because beyond... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black – We Run on Principle.
Orphan Black: 5x02 Clutch of Greed.The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air,... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 20/6/17 Compact Edition
Politics: This long profile of Chelsea Manning is moving and an important read.The Grenfell tragedy is a political tragedy. A summary of the crisis unfolding... Read more
Posted on 20 June 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid's Tale - Table of Contents
Season One: OffredBirth DayLateNolite te bastardes carborundorumFaithfulA Woman's PlaceThe Other SideJezebelsThe BridgeNight Read more
Posted on 15 June 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale - How Can You Do This?
The Handmaid's Tale: 1x10 Night.It’s their own fault. They should have never given us uniforms if they didn’t want us to be an army. Read more
Posted on 15 June 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black - And We Here Shall Drink from the Fountain First.
Orphan Black : 5x01 The Few Who Dare.To sin by silence, when we should protest,Makes cowards out of men. The human raceHas climbed on protest. Read more
Posted on 14 June 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
"Those Were Lies, Plain and Simple"
Former FBI director James Comey testified in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday. He made a statement available to the public prior to his... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale - You Said You Wanted to Help?
The Handmaid’s Tale: 1x09 The Bridge. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. As the story goes on, June’s interpretation of these lines changes. Read more
Posted on 08 June 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – I Wish This Story Were Different.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 1x08 Jezebels. I wish it showed me in a different light. At the end of Margaret Atwood’s novel on which this show is based, we realise... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 2/6/17
Politics: Donald Trump is withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement - here's Brookings on what it means, the reaction by former President Obama -... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: May.
Non-Fiction: Lynne Tillman: What Would Lynne Tillman Do?.Fiction: Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale. Ellis Avery: The Last Nude.Lidia Yuknavitch: Dora. A... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – If You Go Back, You’re Gonna Die.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 1x07 The Other Side. The Other Side feels like an escape. It’s a very deliberate departure from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, whic... Read more
Posted on 26 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 25/5/17
Politics: This is just one of many stories that would have very likely ended any previous presidency, and yet. Last week, the Washington Post reported that... Read more
Posted on 25 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtape - i Was So Young When It Hit Me.
tateishi harumi: clover. [via tumblr]cayetana | bus ticket. camp cope | west side story. the mountain goats | rain in soho. shannon wright | the thirst. slowdiv... Read more
Posted on 24 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – Are You Happy?
The Handmaid's Tale: 1x06 A Woman's Place.Please, do something. The Handmaid’s Tale has spent a lot of time on investigating how Gilead came into being, how an... Read more
Posted on 23 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO