Lost S1E13: Hearts and Minds
Well, I suppose you could call this episode a boon to the series. Huh? Right? Huh? Huh? God, I feel like I haven’t heard human laughter in so long it hurts. Nothing to do with the lockdown, I’m just not funny.
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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House
May 21, 2020
The X-Files and the Monsters of That Week: Tesos Dos Bichos
As I stated in my Pusher review, season three of The X-Files is where the show really hit its form, without a sustained dip in quality until season seven. This means that, contrary to last week, when picking the best monster of the week was a huge task bound to piss a lot of fans off, the pick for the worst episode of the season is remarkably easy.
May 20, 2020
A Sincerely Satisfying Sift Through My Standout Slasher Cinema
A girl and her slasher movies
May 19, 2020
A Hypochondriac’s Guide to Hypochondria
So, a few months ago, I wrote An Insomniac’s Guide to Insomnia. And, with everything going in the world right now, I figured that it’s only time that I come down from on high to deliver to you my Hypochondriac’s Guide to Hypochondria.
May 14, 2020
The X-Files and the Monsters of That Week: Pusher
Season three, and The X-Files is cruising.
May 9, 2020
Lost Recaps S1E11: All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
I took one look at the title of this episode, and only one thing came to mind. Because if you bring up cowboys and daddy issues in the same sentence, I am simply obliged to share with you this iconic Magnetic Fields faux-country gay banger, Papa Was A Rodeo. Here, listen to it now – if you sync it with reading this recap just right, it’s like Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd, except actually interesting.
May 7, 2020
Normal
I have hear many people wishing to return to ‘normal’. It makes me sad because I want to say this – please understand that your ‘normal’ never existed. It is a construction which has been used to seperate and bestow upon a privileged few a life of (relative) luxury, comfort and on-demand services, whilst resigning the majority to a standard of ‘normal’ far inferior to what you would consider adequate for yourself.
Think about this – how many times recently have you heard someone criticise Chinese eating habits as being ‘not normal’? Yet no one bats an eye (accidental pun but I stand tall) at the miserable life (42 days on average) of a battery farm chick because we consider that ‘normal’. Have you ever heard someone describe Africa (the whole continent) as being ‘incapable’ of achieving normality? Yet most Westerners don’t think it abnormal to homogenise millions of independent…
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May 7, 2020
The X-Files and the Monsters of That Week: 3
When it comes to the worst Monster of the Week episode of The X-Files’ second season, the choice is a remarkably easy one. Season two was a giant leap forward for the show: the mythology was established enough to start growing into some of the most exciting event television of the nineties, and the Monsters of the Week became more creative and unique. A typical weak episode of season two is one where not everything hangs together: such as Fearful Symmetry, Aubrey, and Our Town. They aren’t disasters – due to the to the chemistry of Mulder and Scully, the confidence of the writers, and in many cases, the cinematic presentation of each episode. I dare you to find a more brilliantly directed show in the nineties than The X-Files, especially in this confident second season.
May 6, 2020
Why The Rise of Skywalker Failed the Sequel Trilogy
And it’s because I love The Force Awakens.
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