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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House

Category: Television Review

Lost Recaps S1E1/2: Pilot

I’m about to do something really, really stupid.

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The Miniature Nightmare of Inside No. 9

You know, sometimes, I just feel the need to watch something fucked up.

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The Aspirational Teenage Bullshit of Skins

Hey, you want to feel old?

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Bojack Horseman, Suicide, and Sad, Happy Endings

Ever since Bojack Horseman came into being, people have been trying to predict just how it would end. Spoilers ahead, for the final season and finale.

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Zeitgeist TV Shows That Lost The Plot

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A Bitch About The Witch(er)

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Dracula Review: Blood Vessel

Fucking hell.

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Watchmen S1E8: A God Walks Into Abar

I love love.

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Don’t Mention the Cricket: The Underrated Brilliance of Outside Edge

Ah, ’tis the season: if you’re British, like mine fine self-ine, you’ll be cracking out the box-sets and settling down in a haze of fizzy faux-booze and mince pies and suchlike to inject some comedy charm straight into your needy veins.

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Bojack Horseman and the Legacy of Recovery

With only one half-season of Bojack Horseman remaining, I fully intend to spend as much time as humanly (and horsenly) possibly talking about it. Bojack Horseman is one of the best shows of the decade, one of the most consistently brilliant, insightful deep-dives into trauma, abuse, addiction, and mental illness, not to mention a magnificent vehicle for Noted Character Actress Margot Martindale to spin her winsome charms over the nation at large. The last half of this season drops at the end of January next year, and I’m already a little sad to think that it’s going to be over all too soon.

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