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The Thing Without Feathers

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THE EXPANSE – Season 6 Episode 1 – SPOILERS In a circular forest clearing, a girl named Clara seems preoccupied with the local plant and animal life, which includes a jumping fish without fins called a gruncher, a slinkervine (fairly …

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And The Gambler Stays Behind

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THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 Episode 6 – SPOILERS Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) has been on a secret mission for the Amyrlin Seat (Siuan Sanche, played by Sophie Okonedo) to locate the Dragon Reborn. (Siuan and Moiraine were the …

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The Wolf That Lives In Perrin

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THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 Episode 5 – SPOILERS Egwene (Madeleine Madden) and Perrin (Marcus Rutherford) are still traveling with Ila (Maria Doyle Kennedy) and her band of nomads. Just as they get within sight of the White …

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On the Red Ball To Natchez

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EVERYTIME A BELL RINGS – directed by Maclain Nelson – (some spoilers) ⁓ Ali Liebert tweeted on 20 November: “spoiler alert! in #EveryTimeABellRings, Nora gets the girl!! Never thought i’d see the day that i’d be playing a lesbian in …

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Mat and the Dagger, Nynaeve and the Snake

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THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 Episode 4 – SPOILERS “The Wheel doesn’t want anything. It can’t. Any more than a river or the rain can want something.” Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) and Lan Mandragoran (Daniel Henney) have been joined …

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Spinnin’ Wheel, Got To Go ‘Round

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THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 – Episodes 1 through 3 – SPOILERS More ‘Sword and Science‘ than ‘Sword and Sorcery‘; THE WHEEL OF TIME is an engaging, complex, and coherent fantasy world. Fans of the books seem generally …

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A Guardian Will Come From The North

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NIGHT RAIDERS – a film by Danis Goulet – SPOILERS Beyond it’s timely political message, NIGHT RAIDERS is an excellent bit of science fiction that vividly illustrates the suggestion that technology may be evolving into a form that is more …

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What the Cast of Killjoys is Doing Now (Part Two)

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Alanna Bale (**The Lady in 9 episodes) is Jasmine and Atticus Mitchell (Pippin Foster in 11 episodes) is Rob in LUNE, a film set in 1994 Toronto that focuses on Miriam (Aviva Armour-Ostroff) and her bipolar disorder. Miriam is a …

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What the Cast of Killjoys Is Doing Now (Pt.1)

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Aaron Ashmore, Luke McFarlane, Tamsen McDonough, Rob Stewart, Mayko Nguyen, Thom Allison Hannah John-Kamen (Dutch/Aneela**) stars as Maya in Jon Wright’s horror feature UNWELCOME, about a London couple (Jamie, played by Douglas Booth is the other half of it) who …

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Meantime Let Me Be That I Am

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That which had seemed coincidental is revealed to be part of a plan. Characters are unmasked, revealing their true destinies. The Daughters of the Amazon are defeated in the Battle of Marrisville, but even before the battle, interesting things happen.

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War, Peace, and Leviticus (24:19)

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KIN – Season 1 Episode 8 – SPOILERS Amanda (Clare Dunne) arranges a meeting with Eamon Cunningham (Ciarán Hinds) to negotiate an end to the war. The two of them meet in an airport lounge on the other side of …

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Getting Over the Apocalypse

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Y:THE LAST MAN – Season 1 Episode 9 – SPOILERS In Episode 5, when Dr. Mann (Diana Bang) told Yorick (Ben Schnetzer) they had to go to San Francisco, he remarked: “Maybe on the way, may I suggest sunny Ohio?”. …

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When Your Day Is Done, And You Want To Ride On

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KIN – Season 1 Episode 7 – SPOILERS Amanda (Clare Dunne) is very methodical. She hires her own lawyer and persuades Jenny Lawlor (Denise McCormack) to say (for $500K) that her dead husband (see Episode 1.3) did all the money …

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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em

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Y:THE LAST MAN – Season 1 Episode 8 – SPOILERS This side trip into the story of the Daughters of the Amazons is a significant departure from the comics, where the Daughters are led by a feminist intellectual named Victoria. …

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A House Divided Against Itself

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KIN – Season 1 Episode 6 – SPOILERS Eamon Cunningham (Ciarán Hinds) manages to negotiate a two week grace period from his suppliers (at the rate of $140K per day). His new-age-y ex-wife Angela (Fiona Bell),who is dying of cancer …

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Mid-Season Thoughts on Y: The Last Man

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SPOILERS ⁓ The premise is simple. All male mammals drop dead at roughly the same time. Smaller mammals seem to be affected first. Israel (one of the three countries other than the United States mentioned so far in the show) …

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Birdy, Amanda, and the Jack of Hearts

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KIN – Season 1 Episode 5 – SPOILERS In a well-organized heist, the Kinsellas nab $50 million worth of Eamon Cunningham’s drugs (pretty much all that he had). They can’t sell the stuff right away, so they stash it and …

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The Raven Himself Is Hoarse

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KIN – Season 1 Episode 4 – SPOILERS Blood has mostly been absent from KIN, but the killing in this episode signals the beginning of more graphic violence. Francis Flynn (Thommas Kane-Byrne), nicknamed “Fudge”, is the victim this time. While …

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Wynonna Earp: Thoughts on the End of Season 4b

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SPOILERS There are things that we never do find out. Why was the garden so un-garden-like? What ultimately happened to Eve (whose true form we never did get to see) after Doc (Tim Rozon) kicked her through a portal and …

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Rendezvous With Death

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KIN – Season 1 Episode 3 – SPOILERS A perfect emotional storm causes the Kinsella clan to initiate a series of events that will inevitably lead to their destruction. Frank (Aidan Gillen) has issued a stern warning to his family …

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Ain’t Gonna Need This House No More

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SURREALESTATE – Seaaon 1 Episode 10 – SPOILERS Father Phil (Adam Korson) discovers a tunnel that leads to the basement of the Donovan house. He and Zooey (Savannah Basley) and Susan (Sarah Levy) use it in their attempts to find …

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Amanda and the Two Brothers

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KIN – Season 1 Episode 2 – SPOILERS Last episode, some of the folks who work for rival drug boss Eamon Cunningham (Ciarán Hinds) poked fun at Frank Kinsella’s son Viking (Sam Keeley), who, along with a friend of his …

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The Donovan House Strikes Back

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SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 9 – SPOILERS Rita Weiss (Alison Brooks), who is normally Luke Roman’s nemesis, asks the Roman Agency for help with a half-dozen metaphysically challenged properties. Luke (Tim Rozon) and his associates solve Rita’s six problems …

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Who’s Who in the Kinsella Clan

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KIN – Season 1 Episode 1 – SPOILERS The Kinsellas are a clan that deals drugs for a living. A conflict develops when their primary supplier (whose boss is Eamon Cunningham, played by Ciarán Hinds) insists on becoming their only …

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The House On Bathory Lane

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SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 8 – SPOILERS Negative publicity surrounding two recent supernaturally generated tragedies that he could not prevent has made Luke (Tim Rozon) consider giving up curing and selling haunted properties and taking the Agency mainstream. Susan …

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The Platinum Ring of Esteem

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SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 7 – SPOILERS Luke (Tim Rozon) and the gang (late in the episode, someone refers to Susan as “Daphne from Scooby-Doo”) arrives at their offices exhausted after having dealt (ineffectively it turns out) with a …

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It Ain’t No Hollaback, Girl

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SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 6 – SPOILERS Luke (Tim Rozon) explains the demon of the week, the Watchmaker: “They came over with the flood of German immigration in the mid-1800s,” he says, “which gave us kindergarten, and Christmas Trees, …

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Counter-Evolution: The Demon In The Dream

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DEMONIC – written and directed by Neill Blomkamp – SPOILERS It begins in a dream in which Carly (Carly Pope) wanders through the dry grass surrounding a disused institutional-appearing building, calling out to her mother (who does not answer). She …

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Still A Few Bugs In The System

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THE SWARM (La Nuée)- directed by Just Philippot – SPOILERS On a farm somewhere in the French countryside, Virginie Hébrard (Suliane Brahim) decides to raise locusts as a last ditch effort to survive. She has a mildly asthmatic, soccer-playing son …

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Little Boxes And Great Balls Of Fire

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SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 4 – SPOILERS On the way back from placating some rich and fussy clients (Duncan and Sophie, played by Patrick Kwok-Choon and Laci J. Mailey), Susan (Sarah Levy) swerves to avoid a man on horseback …

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