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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House

My Very Favourite Standalone TV Episodes

Sometimes, I just don’t feel like jumping into a whole series, you know? It just feels like too much of a commitment to sit down and stick to six or eight or twenty-four episodes, when I could be spending my time brewing elaborate teas and smelling my cats head.

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Lost S1E20: Do No Harm

You know, I dunked a lot on Jack at the start of this season.

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I Watched Grease for the First Time

I just love this article a lot

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The X-Files and the Monsters of That Week: Alpha

Throughout this series of articles, it has been quite easy picking the worst of what The X-Files has to offer, and season six is no different. Going through the episode list, past the many classics and the many just-good-enough episodes, there is one that takes the prize above all else: the killer dog debacle that is Alpha. And I’m not just saying that because my little dog-hating cat has a claw to my throat.

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A Haul of Haunted House Horror

Ghost, ghouls, and generational trauma!

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Stay Beautiful: The Commodification of Feminist Self-Care

How are you all doing? Would you like a cup of tea? Pet my cat’s little head? Here, let me get you a blanket. You look cold. Or maybe that’s just the icy stare I’m giving the next episode of Lost I have to recap. Who knows?

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Lost Recaps S1E19: Deus Ex Machina

We’re back! It’s hard to believe that, the last time I wrote about a John Locke-specific episode, it was still relevant to actually tell people to wash their hands instead of just assuming they’d scrubbed them down to the bone already – three months in lockdown, three months of Lostdown, and I have Entirely lost (heh) my mind.

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The X-Files and the Monsters of That Week: Triangle

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A Sneaky Greenland Trailer Analysis

This is a Gerard Butler stan account now

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Lost S1E19: Numbers

Let’s talk a little about mysticism.

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