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The Ingenious Are Always Fanciful

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REVIVAL – Episode 109 – Mother of Babylon (limited spoilers) ⁓ Ibrahim (Andy McQueen) has been captured and tied to a chair by Blaine (Steven Ogg), who asks him “What started Revival Day?” Ibrahim doesn’t know, and is terrified of …

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The Full Moon, Em and May

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REVIVAL – Episode 108 – A Rose and a Thorn – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Rose Blackdeer (Leenah Robinson) and May Tao (Katherine King So) were in love and planned to run away together. Rose’s father Jesse (Brandon Oakes) didn’t like …

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Born of Water and the Spirit

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REVIVAL – Episode 107 – Too Many Secrets – (speculative recap) ⁓ The effort of healing Dana’s wounds has left Em (Romy Weltman) near death herself. Ibrahim (Andy McQueen) is surprised to learn that Em is a reviver. He tells …

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Hack/Slash, Bigfoot, and Ninja Em

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REVIVAL – Season 1 Episode 6 – (speculative recap) ⁓ A flashback shows Patty Cypress (Lara Jean Chorostecki) giving birth to Em in a home water birth. In attendance, along with a midwife, is her teenage daughter Dana (Reese Finlay), …

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An Explosion in the Woods

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REVIVAL – Season 1 – Episodes 4 & 5 – (speculative recap) ⁓ A hooded figure removes a thumb drive from Professor Aaron Weimer’s desk, and leaves it for journalist May Tao (Katharine King So) to find. We see him …

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Rhodey Rasch and the Revivers

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REVIVAL – Season 1 Episode 3 – (speculative recap) ⁓ Kay (Maia Jae Bastidas) thinks one of Dorothy Check’s sons killed Em (Romy Weltman) because she and Em visited the Checks that night to buy some drugs. While Kay negotiated …

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Bridge Over Troubled Waters

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REVIVAL – Season 1 Episode 2 – (speculative recap) ⁓ When the Sheriff (David James Elliott) finds Cooper (Hudson Wurster), the boy explains that he was drawn into the woods by a sound. “Do you hear it?”, he asks. “There’s …

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Revival – Thoughts on the First Episode

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Speculative Recap ⁓ On the night of 18 December in the city of Wasau in (fictional) Mountain Bay County, Wisconsin, Journalist May Tao (Katharine King So) is putting together a piece about locals in unusual jobs, and watches Randy (Graeme …

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Eight Hundred Miles From Deadwood

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STRANGE EMPIRE – created by Laurie Finstad-Knizhnik – (SPOILERS) ⁓ In 1869 Captain Slotter (Aaron Poole) and his wife Isabelle (Tattiawana Jones) are trying to run a coal mine near the Alberta/Montana border. Slotter has enough men to mine the …

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What the Cast of Bomb Girls is Doing Now

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Jodi Balfour (Gladys Witham in all episodes) is psychoanalyst and educator Dorothy Burlingham in FREUD’S LAST SESSION, an adaptation of the play by Mark St. Germain, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Matthew Brown. (The play was based on the …

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A Particularly Complex Demon

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WYNONNA EARP: VENGEANCE – (limited spoilers) ⁓ South of Purgatory, on the edge of the Ghost River Triangle, former Sheriff Randy Nedley (Greg Lawson) is ice fishing. He is joined by Mercedes (Dani Kind), who arrives wearing yellow faux snake …

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The Severity of Abstract Ethics

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I’LL TAKE YOUR DEAD – directed by Chad Archibald – SPOILERS ⁓ William Derrow (Aidan Devine) lives on a farm with his daughter Gloria (Ava Preston), and circumstances have made him an urban legend. His butchering skills are regularly employed …

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Iris, If You Were a Melody…

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BEACON 23 – Season 2 Episodes 1-3 – SPOILERS ⁓ Aster Calyx (Lena Headey), having been shot by Kier (Marc Menchaca) in the final moments of the first season, lies in a pool of blood. As Halan (Stephan James) tries …

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You With Your Visions And Dreams

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A SUNDAY KIND OF LOVE – a film by Geordie Sabbagh – SPOILERS ⁓ Tracy (Meghan Heffern), significant other to unpublished novelist Adam Loule (Dylan Taylor), has made French toast for breakfast. She sets a plate of it in front …

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Three For a Wedding, Four For Birth

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BIRDLAND – a film by Peter Lynch – SPOILERS ⁓ Police Detective Sheila Hood (Kathleen Munroe) suspects her ornithologist husband Tom Kale (David Alpay) is up to something. (She knows not what.) Sheila unofficially borrows police surveillance equipment, and watches …

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A Saviour, Steadfast and True

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HAPPILY EVER AFTER – a film by Joan Carr-Wiggin – SPOILERS ⁓ On the advice of her father’s doctor, filmmaker Heather (Janet Montgomery) reluctantly returns home after a long absence. She expects to find her alcoholic dad near death, but …

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An Arthurian Trek Into Philosophies of the Future

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BEACON 23 – created by Zak Penn – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Neither knows why, but Halan Kai Neilsen (Stephan James) and Aster Calyx (Lena Headey) find themselves drawn to Beacon 23. one of many beacons positioned along galactic travel routes …

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Lucy and the No Good, Very Bad Day

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FAMILY LAW – Season 2 Episode 1 – SPOILERS – Relationships become more clearly defined. An amnesiac inventor has his day in court. Crystal pushes her luck.

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have you seen your mother, baby (standing in the shadow)

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SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 5 – SPOILERS Titled “Ghost Child”, this is the closest thing to a musical episode in the series, and was (somehow) not covered by Area 33 when it originally aired in August 2021. Some ghosts …

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What the Wynonna Earp Cast is Doing Now

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Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp in 49 episodes) is Emma’s friend Wendy in Sean Garrity‘s romantic comedy, THE END OF SEX. After sending their children to winter camp, Emma (Emily Hampshire) and Josh (Jonas Chernick) try to recharge their relationship by …

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Alien Invaders: Asha, Felicity, and Doctor Peterson

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FAMILY LAW – Season 1 Episode 10 – SPOILERS The three lawyers at Svensson and Associates are quite different from one another. Abigail (Jewel Staite) is ruthless and borderline unethical in advocating for her clients. Harry Svensson (Victor Garber) is …

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Harry and Crystal Are Dated

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FAMILY LAW – Season 1 Episode 9 – SPOILERS The birthdays of Lucy’s deceased mom Monique and Nina the Receptionist (Kelli Ogmundson) very nearly coincide. Nina’s dad Bryan (Patrick Gilmmore) gives his (almost) twenty-two-year-old daughter a DNA kit. “Here’s hoping …

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Truth and Rumours of Truth

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FAMILY LAW – Season 1 Episode 7 – SPOILERS Last episode, Daniel (Zach Smadu) asked Harry (Victor Garber) to make him a partner in the firm, and Harry declined. Also, Abby (Jewel Staite) saw Lucy (Genelle Williams) kissing someone other …

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Caught In A Bad Romance

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FAMILY LAW – Season 1 Episode 5 – SPOILERS Agigail (Jewel Staite) dreams about having sex with her husband Frank (Luke Camilleri), from whom she is separated. Then four things happen in rapid succession. The receptionist at Svensson & Associates …

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Feels Like I’m Winning When I’m Losing Again

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FAMILY LAW – Season 1 Episode 3 – SPOILERS The week’s new client is Marlee Liu-Hartford (Steph Song) whose husband Dwight (Haig Sutherland) wants temporary custody of their children because Marlee (he says) is addicted to gaming. She is in …

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An Introduction to ‘Family Law’

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FAMILY LAW – Season 1 – Episode 1 – SPOILERS Abigail Bianchi (Jewel Staite) has two families and is alienated from both of them. Her husband Frank (Luke Camilleri) kicked her out of the house months ago because of behaviour …

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The Van Helsing Cast – 2022 Leo Awards Nominations

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Marci T House (Major Stoker in “Seen You“) was nominated for Best Supporting Performance in a Dramatic Series (Female) for the TRIBAL episode “It’s All in Your Headdress“, in which Chief of Tribal Police Sam Woodburn (Jessica Matten) and her …

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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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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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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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