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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House

Peaky Blunders: How Peaky Blinders Went Rotten

You girl is on her period and utterly busy-ed out at the moment, so this post comes courtesy of my excellent co-writer over at No But Listen, who has stepped in to vent about a show he hates for your reading pleasure. And also mainly so I don’t have to hear him ranting about it any longer.

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Star Wars Cinematic Universe Retrospective: Star Wars: The Clone Wars

I just. Want a good Asohka Tano movie. Because this is NOT it.

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Self-Care, But Unironically

It’s Saturday today. It’s the day off I force myself to take; I slept in, did an hour of yoga, sipped on my fancy tea. I call it self-care, even though it’s somehow more stressful to think about taking care of myself than it is to think about work.

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Movie Review: Hustlers

Hustlers is one of the movies of the year – and it’s all thanks to women.

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American Horror Story S9E1: Camp Redwood

Well.

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Star Wars Cinematic Universe Retrospective: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

I really didn’t think it could possibly be as bad as I remembered

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TV Characters I Would Fight: Part Eleven

It’s all been a little positive around here recently, don’t you think? Time to get some bitching up in this joint. Yes, it’s that time – time for another round of TV characters I would fight! Check out the rest of the series here, and share your own punch-throwing leading men/women in the comments below. To the list!

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Star Wars Cinematic Universe Retrospective: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

I love this movie and nothing will change my mind

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Banality, Bipolar, and Brassic

When it comes to depictions of mental illness on television, there’s an all-or-nothing attitude. It’s either 13 Reasons Why all-consuming-DEPRESSION or nothing ever going wrong at all thank you so much and if it does it’s certainly resolved by the end of the episode, no in between; either mental illness is consuming the life of a main character, or it doesn’t exist at all.

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Thank You

You know, I try to do a little post every year, around the time that this blog ages up again. And every year, I go holy shit, people are still reading this? I’m still writing it? And it feels absurd and ridiculous and brilliant all at once.

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