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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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The Good Wife - Table of Contents
I don't have friends. You were a friend. (Season 1 and 2)Season Three: A New DayThe Death ZoneGet a RoomFeeding the RatMarthas and CaitlinsAffairs of... Read more
Posted on 19 May 2014 -
Reaction Post - That Changes Everything.
The Good Wife: 5x22 A Weird Year.At the end of the fifth season of The Good Wife, and what a weird year it has been, everything is different now, Eli Gold... Read more
Posted on 19 May 2014 -
Orphan Black - There’s No Place for Me Here.
Orphan Black: 2x03 Mingling Its Own Nature With It.The Idols of the Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. Read more
Posted on 16 May 2014 -
Orphan Black - It is Your Reality.
Orphan Black: 2x02 Governed by Sound Reason and True Religion.Only let the human race recover that right over nature which belongs to it by divine bequest, and... Read more
Posted on 15 May 2014 -
Reaction Post - You Have Changed.
The Good Wife: 5x21 The One Percent.It's never easy to sum up episodes of TGW, not because they don't have themes, but because it's too good a show to ever... Read more
Posted on 12 May 2014 -
Orphan Black - This is My Biology, It’s My Decision.
Orphan Black: 2x01 Nature Under Constraint and Vexed.I mean it to be a history not only of nature free and at large (when she is left to her own course and... Read more
Posted on 11 May 2014 -
Reaction Post - Who Am I Being Faithful To?
The Good Wife: 5x20 The Deep Web.Ugh, I don't even know TGW. Stuff happens. Bitcoins. Silk road. In TGW's Silk Road episode, the grandson of one of their bigges... Read more
Posted on 05 May 2014 -
Reading List: April.
Non-Fiction: Lawrence Wright: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.Films: Lapsia ja aikuisia - Kuinka niitä tehdään? (2004, Aleksi... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2014 -
Reaction Post - Are You Okay?
The Good Wife: 5x19 Tying the Knot.Alicia is having one of those days that she usually has when Colin Sweeney is involved (he truly is the Borg of TGW): within... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2014 -
Reaction Post - It's Time to Kick Some Ass.
The Good Wife: 5x18 All Tapped Out.Jeff, one of the two NSA "contractors" listening in on Alicia three degrees of separation, starts to panic when new... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2014 -
Reaction Post - We'll Figure out How to Make This Work.
The Good Wife: 5x17 A Material World. There's something magnetic about a show that is as unpredictable as The Good Wife has been throughout its seasons, even... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2014 -
Bomb Girls - Table of Contents
Season One: Jumping TracksMisfiresHow You TrustBringing Up BombshellArmisticeElements of SurpriseSeason Two: The QuickeningRoses RedThe Enemy WithinGuests of... Read more
Posted on 06 April 2014 -
Bomb Girls - Welcome Home!
Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy. Betty McRae went to prison to protect the person she loved the most in the world, and then disappeared after getting out,... Read more
Posted on 06 April 2014 -
Reading List: March
Non-Fiction: Ahmed Rashid: Descent into Chaos. The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.Thomas Barfield... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2014 -
Reaction Post - What Does It Mean?
The Good Wife: 5x16 The Last Call. Death can be random. Will Gardner was convinced of his client's innocence and when he realized what Jeffrey was intending to... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2014 -
...this Maintenance of the Mask
This scene is so memorable because it relates profoundly to the inner movement and dramatic development not only of these characters’ journey of self-discovery... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2014 -
Orange is the New Black - I'm Scared That I'm Not Myself in Here and I'm Scared...
Orange is the New Black: 1x10 Bora Bora Bora.Who is Piper Chapman? It’s a question that the show has been asking since its beginning, but it’s only now that... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2014 -
Reaction Post - You and I Were Built for This, It's What We Do.
The Good Wife: 5x15 Dramatics, Your Honor. There's a certain beautiful symmetry there. On the one hand, Alicia Florrick, with all those recent flashback memorie... Read more
Posted on 24 March 2014 -
A Modern Family – Marriage in Vikings and The Americans
How strange that two of the most interesting portrayals of marriage are about 1) a couple in an arranged marriage for the purpose of espionage during the Cold... Read more
Posted on 23 March 2014