Category: TV Shows
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A Lapsed Anime Fan Recommends You Anime
There was a time not so very long ago that I was a dedicated fan of Japanese animation. I was always working my way through one show or another, participating in fan communities and reading and looking for fanart and fanfiction to enjoy. And then… something changed. My tastes, I guess. Some of those anime…
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FROCKTOBER: Reviewing Gilmore Girls Outfits
After a day-long rainstorm, fall weather has finally finally descended where I live. Fall is my favorite season, and I’m so thankful to have left the 80 degree days behind… knock on wood, of course. Once the weather starts to get like this (and, truthfully, before) I’m always reaching for my favorite cozy fall media,…
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My Friends Made Me Review It: Star Trek: The Original Series
Usually my themed Octobers come about from the expansion of a single idea. And this was the idea at the core of this theme. All this month, I’m reviewing things my friends requested me to. But even before then, my partner introduced me to Star Trek. Now, while I really do enjoy Star Trek, most…
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Stranger Things and the Horror of the Binge Model
On Thursday night, holed up in my room for COVID scare #3 in the past month (don’t worry, I’m negative still), I decided to finally finish what had been a herculean task for me – finishing the first part of Season 4 of Stranger Things. I stayed up way past my bedtime to watch the…
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On Settling for Florence
Adorned in a charming, mustard-yellow beret, a high-school girl, Florence, barges into the makeshift office of her school’s new sex education teacher, Jean Milburn. “I don’t want to have sex,” she blurts out. “Okay,” Jean says. “Do you want to have a seat?” Florence sits, and in a moment that would be gif’d a thousand…
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Data’s Humanity (And Why It Matters So Much… And So Little)
Forgive me, but I have to take a minute to talk about Data. Data is the android second officer of the U.S.S Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG). I’m currently working my way through this series for the first time and he is the character I feel the most need to talk about,…
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“Heartstopper” and Nuanced Representation
My partner and I started watching the newly-released Netflix adaptation for the webcomic Heartstopper this week. We haven’t finished it yet, but we really liked what we saw – it was sweet, genuine, funny, and so, so, so, so gay. We have both read at least some of the original webcomic and found it to…
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I Had a Bias Against “Star Trek: Lower Decks”
I have a real prejudice against adult animation. I’ve been an animation fan since I was a kid, which was easy for me back then because it felt like most animation was made for me – for kids. But as I got older and I continued to watch animated shows and movies, I started to…
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Fate: The Winx Saga was an Odd Nightmare
At the beginning of Fate: The Winx Saga, the audience is introduced to the main character Bloom as she arrives at the beautiful, imposing fairy college Alfea. The echoing indie music and the faint blue barrier surrounding the college tells us that magic and teenage angst is afoot. Panning shots introduce us to each of…
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Winx Club and What Couldn’t Have Been
Originally, I wanted this post to be a review of Fate: The Winx Saga, the new live-action Netflix adaptation of the 2004 Italian-American cartoon, Winx Club, a show about colorful sparkly fairies attending magic college. However, even though the first season is only six episodes long, I am pretty bad at watching TV shows and…
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