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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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Yellowjackets – We Can’t Wait to Meet Him.
Yellowjackets: 2x05 Two Truths and a Lie.How do you survive for more than a year in the wilderness? Survive, not just in the sense of food and shelter – survive... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets – Can This Just Be Enough?
Yellowjackets: 2x04 Old Wounds.Van: I don’t understand why you won’t see what’s right in front of you. In Old Wounds, I changed my mind about Lottie. Read more
Posted on 17 April 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets – We All Did It, Together.
Yellowjackets: 2x03 Digestif.Can’t stop what’s comingCan’t stop what’s on its wayTori Amos | Bells for HerThis whole episode is about the fallout of Edible... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets - That’s Not What You’re Hungry For.
Yellowjackets: 2x02 Edible Complex.Shauna: I’ll never have another friend like you. I don’t even know where you end and I begin. I’m sorry, and I love you. Read more
Posted on 03 April 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Das Lied Zum Sonntag
Lucy Dacus - Night Shift (on Historian)You got a 9 to 5, so I'll take the night shiftAnd I'll never see you again if I can help itIn five years I hope the... Read more
Posted on 02 April 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: March.
Non-Fiction:Michael Wallis: The Best Land Under Heaven. The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny.Ly Tran: House of Sticks. A Memoir.Fiction: Rebecca... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets - I’m Never Going to Be Scared of You.
Yellowjackets: 2x01 Friends, Romans, Countrymen.Down beneath the ashes and the stoneSure of what I've lived and have knownI see you so uncomfortably aloneI... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets – Let the Darkness Set Us Free.
Yellowjackets: 1x10 Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.Ally, the girl who never made it on the plane yet has built an entire personality on her almost-miss, gives a... Read more
Posted on 20 March 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets – You Took Something That Doesn’t Belong to You.
Yellowjackets: 1x09 Doomcoming.Jackie: Coming up on the end of the world, Shipman. Time to put out all the stops.It is miraculous to consider that in spite of... Read more
Posted on 14 March 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets - Please. Just Show Me a Sign.
Yellowjackets: 1x08 Flight of the Bumblebee.Do you ever think about what our lives would have been like if it didn’t happen?One of the questions hovering in... Read more
Posted on 09 March 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Favourite Books I've Read This Year In Progress
Fiction:Marisa Crane: I Keep My Exoskeleton to Myself. Rebecca Rotert: Last Night at the Blue Angel.Trang Thanh Tran: She Is a Haunting. Read more
Posted on 08 March 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets - You’re Obviously Hiding Something from Me.
Yellowjackets: 1x07 No Compass.Taissa: There is a solution for everything. An explanation for everything. Watching Taissa in this episode made me think about... Read more
Posted on 06 March 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets – We Have to Save Us.
Yellowjackets: 1x06 Saints.I can’t believe how exhausting it must have been always comparing yourself to someone so beautiful and smart. Read more
Posted on 02 March 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: February.
Non-Fiction: Rick Morton: One Hundred Years of Dirt. David Welky: A Wretched and Precarious Situation. In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier. Daniel James Brown... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets - I Don’t Belong Here.
Yellowjackets: 1x05 Blood Hive.The situation of the stranded in the wilderness is a juxtaposition of sorts: on the one hand, there is endless space to explore... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Bad Behaviour
It seems like one of those surprising pop-cultural coincidences that Bad Behaviour, a four-part adaptation of Rebecca Starford’s memoir of surviving a year on... Read more
Posted on 24 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets – What Really Happened out There?
Yellowjackets: 1x04 Bear Down.In a way, Yellowjackets is like a psychological study of how people become who they are. It’s a reconstruction on screen throughou... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets – We Think We Know What We’re Doing but Really We Have No Clue.
Yellowjackets: 1x03 The Dollhouse.Three days have past and there are no signs of a rescue team arriving, so the stranded now have to make a decision: after... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets - You Just Seem Like Someone Who Doesn’t Play by the Rules.
Yellowjackets: 1x02 F Sharp.If you think about some of the skills required to survive an emergency situation in the wilderness, you’d have high hopes for this... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Yellowjackets – Buzz Buzz Buzz Buzz.
Yellowjackets: 1x01 Pilot. “So what do you think really happened down there?”In 1996, a plane carrying a high school soccer team, their coaches and support... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO