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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Links 12/5/17
Politics: South Korea (and South Korea's President) are growing more concerned about American politics than North Korean ones. Watch out for gerrymandering now... Read more
Posted on 12 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – What Did You Do to Her?
The Handmaid’s Tale: 1x05 Faithful. “I was thinking maybe we could try another way”In many ways, Faithful is about faithlessness, about betrayal. Read more
Posted on 12 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Blowing the Lid
Comey’s dismissal is likely to raise questions about whether the White House is interfering in that investigation. In a letter from Trump informing Comey of... Read more
Posted on 12 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – I Feel Like the Words Shatter.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 1x04 Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.This entire episode is about the power of words. Words have been taken from Handmaids, because... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale – I Didn’t Even Know Her Name.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 1x03 Late.Her name is Emily. Imagine what it would have been like for Emily and that unnamed Martha to fall in love under such... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Doomsday Clock
It is important not to separate the Trump administration’s environmental policies from its broader attack on civil rights. Environmental policy in the U.S. has... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale - Now There Has to Be an Us, Because Now There is a Them.
The Handmaid’s Tale : 1x02 Birth Day.How do trust, empathy and companionship work in the world of Gilead? We’ve seen many examples in the first episodes of how... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: April.
Non-Fiction: Olivia Laing: To The River: A Journey Beneath the Surface.Janet Malcolm: Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers.Fiction: John... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Handmaid’s Tale - It’s Those Other Escapes.
The Handmaid’s Tale: 1x01 Offred.Ordinary is just what you’re used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after some time it will. This will become... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Personal Shopper
The easiest entry point into Personal Shopper is through Olivier Assayas previous films, which have one thing in common, in spite of being set in many... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 20/4/17
Politics: On the double-bind of claiming moral superiority for bombing Syria but also turning away Syrian refugees. And Lawfare on the difficulty of justifying... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Some Thoughts on 'Playtime'
Pretty Little Liars - 7x11 PlaytimeI am very cautious about this last season, and this last half of the season, because at some point about two years ago, this... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Lovesong
I’ve been thinking about this film a lot since seeing it, in spite of the fact that I didn’t particularly enjoy it while watching it. Read more
Posted on 10 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 7/4/17
Politics: After the revelation that the Syrian government used chemicals (and possibly nerve agents) in an attack that claimed civilian lives in a rebel-held... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: March
Non-Fiction: Mark Greif, Kathleen Ross (Eds.): What was the Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation.Victor Cha: The Impossible State. North Korea, Past and... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Asymmetric Polarisation
While concerns about political and media polarization online are longstanding, our study suggests that polarization was asymmetric. Read more
Posted on 31 March 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Hard Exit.
Much of the discussions so far have centered on whether it’ll be a “soft” Brexit or a “hard” Brexit. A “soft” Brexit would allow the U.K.’s relationship with th... Read more
Posted on 30 March 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Cost of an Absolutist Facade
The upshots of adopting such an absolutist facade can be strung together into a fateful parable of sunk costs. Seven years later, it is still impossible for... Read more
Posted on 29 March 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
"...none of This is Remotely Compatible with the Modern Conservative Movement."
To Trump—and to his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who appeared on a Thursday panel alongside chief of staff Reince Priebus—this means pursuing an agenda of... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtape - You're Just Bones and Insecurity.
david schermann: bigger than us. [via tumblr]bonobo | kerala. the xx | dangerous. austra | we were alive. sampha | blood on me. camp cope | flesh and... Read more
Posted on 21 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO