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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House

Category: Television Review

The Absolute Fucking Tomfoolery of Murder Island

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Upending My Life for Stath Lets Flats

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The Brilliant Meta-Narratives of Landscapers

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The Best TV Episodes of 2021 (Part Two)

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The Best TV Episodes of 2021 (Part One)

It’s drawing to the end of another year, and I would like to take this chance to celebrate some of my favourite episodes of television. In another batshit insane twelve months, TV has been what kept me sane (ish), and I love taking a little time to come on here and talk to you all about that. So this week, I’m sharing my favourite episodes of 2021, and I would love to hear about the TV spectaculars that kept you going (or drove you over the edge entirely, either works) this year!

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Faith Healing and Faith Harming: Faith as a Translator of Experience in Midnight Mass

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Supernatural S1E2: Wendigo

Catch up on the set-up for these recaps, what questions I’m trying to answer in them, and my review of the pilot here!

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My Illegal TV Opinions

Sometimes, when I’m laying awake at night in bed, the fevered heat of another day burning away around me, I think to myself: I am a fraud.

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Too Close and the Iceberg of Mental Illness in the Media

When it comes to psychosis, and mental illness in general, TV has one thing to say – and that’s go big, or go home.

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The Stand S1E4: House of the Dead

I just don’t understand how they managed to fuck it up this badly.

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