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• 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

• Westworld - Strange Moonlight Can Be Just as Frightening as the Dark.

  

  Westworld: 2x02 Reunion.It looks like the stars have been scattered across the ground. Have you ever seen anything so full of splendour? Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: April

  

  Non-Fiction: Deborah Nelson: Tough Enough. Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil, Nelson.Fiction: Anchee Min: Red Azalea.Anchee Min: Pearl of... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - Someone Will Come for You.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 2x01 June.This immediate thing, about this show: how close this horror feels. A constant tension, a constant feeling of dread, a perpetual... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 26/4/18

  Politics: More about the Gibsonian combination of cutting edge technology in an authoritarian polity willing to use it to its advantage: China is developing a... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO