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 ( 780 )
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Orphan Black - Do You Ever Wonder If You’re Overplaying Your Hand?
Orphan Black: 3x10 History Yet to Be Written.Every time Orphan Black gears up towards its great, crazy moments it takes a respite to offer what makes its... Read more
Posted on 29 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
On Greece
She [Christine Legarde] was offering not a solution but a narrative: the Greeks were in this situation because they were bad people. They wanted a beneficent... Read more
Posted on 29 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Equal Dignity Under the Law
“The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times,” Kennedy wrote. “The limitation of marriage to opposite-sex couples may long have... Read more
Posted on 29 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 25/6/15 Compact Version
Politics: The New York Times maps refugee movements around the globe. An interview with Ratna Omidvar about how the Canadian migration regime differs from... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtapes - a False Sense of Security
Summer Sommerkaki king | oobleck. sufjan stevens | should have known better. sharon van etten | i always fall apart. jamie xx feat. oliver sim | stranger in a... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 19/6/15
Politics: The Dominican Republic has decided to strip 210000 people of Haitian decent of their citizenship. The country has a long history of ethnic cleansing... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black - I Am a Mother Now and Walk a Different Path.
Orphan Black: 3x09 Insolvent Phantom of Tomorrow.It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old,... Read more
Posted on 18 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black - You Can’t Crush the Human Spirit.
Orphan Black: 3x08 Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method.There is a different side to the idea of extending your definition of family and making your... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 11/6/15
Politics: Edward Snowden with an op-ed for the NY Times in the wake of the USA Freedom Act: Privately, there were moments when I worried that we might have put... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The 'Pretty Little Liars' Will Grow Stronger in the Broken Places
The Liars escaped the doll house, but in a way, that only worked as a reminder that it was only a metaphor for what their lives have been like this whole time. Read more
Posted on 10 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black - You’re with Family Now.
Orphan Black: 3x07 Community of Dreadful Fear and Hate.I will not make boundaries my agenda. Instead I would … I would… family. That’s my agenda.Sometimes famil... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Appetite for Ruin Imagery
The metaphor of nature reclaiming the city, whether used in negative or redemptive terms, neutralizes the actual processes that have had such a destructive... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 4/6/15
Politics:The war on terror, that campaign without end launched 14 years ago by George Bush, is tying itself up in ever more grotesque contortions. Read more
Posted on 04 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: May.
Non-Fiction: Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow. Grégoire Chamayou: A Theory of the Drone.Fiction:Beth Goobie: Hello, Groin.Emily St. John Mandel: Station... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orange is the New Black - I Don’t Have Anyone Left.
Orange is the New Black: 2x13 We Have Manners. We're Polite.One way to see this season of Orange is the New Black is as a stage play. Read more
Posted on 29 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black - After That, the Science Took a Turn.
Orphan Black: 3x06 Certain Agony of the Battlefield.Sarah: I miss you.Beth: You don’t get to miss me, Sarah. I won’t accept that.Sarah: I’m trying to finish wha... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Rules
Here’s another one from the book: “Don’t Expect a Man to Change.”I’d reinvent that one to DON’T EXPECT THE INDUSTRY TO CHANGE. Guys are holding on so tightly... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black – We Can’t Fight Them Alone.
Orphan Black: 3x05 Scarred by Many Past Frustrations.Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing... Read more
Posted on 26 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orange is the New Black - Stop Making Things So Hard for Yourself.
Orange is the New Black: 2x12 It Was the Change.In a classical theatrical mise-en-scène, a storm over Litchfield provides the atmosphere for everything falling... Read more
Posted on 21 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black – They’d Do Anything to Find a Cure.
Orphan Black: 3x04 Newer Elements of Our Defense.Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a... Read more
Posted on 15 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO