Cathy Leaves
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Cathy Leaves' Cellar Door Blog
http://cathyleaves.blogspot.com/
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 ( 781 )
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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 -
The Good Wife - My Time with You, as Your Friend, Was the Best I Ever Had.
“I wanna win. I wanna beat my opponent. You wouldn’t even blink if a man had said that.”In the sixth season of The Good Wife, Alicia Florrick ran for the... Read more
Posted on 15 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The 100
is two things. One, a show that eloquently and brutally tells a tale of survival in a world that has discarded any pretence that survival is anything but a... Read more
Posted on 14 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 13/5/15
Politics: A US court recently ruled that the collection of metadata by the NSA was unlawful, relying heavily on material that was obtained by and released with... Read more
Posted on 13 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orange is the New Black – What Do I Have to Lose?
Orange is the New Black: 2x11 Take A Break From Your Values.Part of the special nature of Orange is the New Black as a show that gets released all at once is ho... Read more
Posted on 12 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black – You’re Just as Fierce as She Was.
Orphan Black: 3x03 Formalized, Complex, and Costly.Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the... Read more
Posted on 07 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 7/5/15
Politics: The Onion summarizes. Hillary Clinton is talking about race and justice and addresses incarceration rates: "It’s time to change the era of mass... Read more
Posted on 07 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
"JFC, This Just Happened on 'The 100' " - Ongoing List.
Spoilers, probably. Humanity puts all hope of survival into group of 100 hormonal teenage delinquents. Space stations are running out of resources and more... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orange is the New Black – There’s Something Wrong with All of Us, Otherwise We...
Orange is the New Black: 2x10 Little Mustachioed Shit.Can people change? It’s a central question raised in this episode and it also dominates the season as a... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black – Tell Me I’m Doing the Right Thing.
Orphan Black: 3x02 Transitory Sacrifices of Crisis.We face a hostile ideology - global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: April.
Non-Fiction: Kate Millett: Sexual Politics.Fiction:Mary Gaitskill: Veronica.James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room. Films: Citizenfour (2014, Laura Poitras).Going Clear... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 29/4/15
Politics: In Baltimore, a look into several cases of undue force used by the police, Logos with "After Ferguson: Notes on Oppression", and an interview with Noa... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Power and Influence
Warren is not running for President. But she is mounting a campaign to insure that Clinton and other prominent Democrats adhere to her agenda of reversing incom... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 23/4/15
Politics: openDemocracy on Europe and migration in the light of the deaths in the Mediterranean. Defense One talks to multidisciplinary experts about what we ca... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black - I Had to Choose.
Orphan Black: 3x01 The Weight of This Combination.In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orange is the New Black - I’m Just Telling You How to Survive.
Orange is the New Black: 2x09 40 OZ of Furlough.Piper’s dad: I’m sorry honey, I just can’t see you like that.Piper: Like what?Piper’s dad: You’re my little girl... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 16/4/15
Politics: Is Iran's foreign policy revolutionary? After all, it’s not Ayatollah Khamenei who sent hundreds of thousands of troops to overthrow an Arab regime... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Two Candidates
Hillary Clinton finally announced that she would run in the 2016 Presidential election, and it looks like she might not have to face a serious primary contest,... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Pretty Little Liars Goes Down the Rabbit Hole in ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’
When I was about eleven years old, one of my aunts gave me a book for Christmas or my birthday: House of Stairs, by William Sleator. As far as dystopian YA... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtapes - So i Shut It All Off.
Isabel O'Toole [via tumblr]sleater-kinney | no anthems. laura marling | false hope. tv on the radio | happy idiot. the mountain goats | werewolf gimmick.... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO