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Courting and Coupling in the Karoo

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RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER – Season 2 Episodes 5 & 6 – (speculative recap) ⁓ Nurse Christine (Melissa de Vries) writes to Maria (Maria Doyle Kennedy) asking for a recipe that will allow her to sleep. She has inherited …

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Thoughts on Agatha Christie’s Hjerson

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Reality TV writer Klara Sandberg (Hanna Alstrรถm) listens to herself pitch new ideas for her show “Milf Hotelle” and is suddenly revolted by her own ideas. She suggests they should be making better television, and, inspired by the cover of …

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The Long Dark Night of the Soul

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WINTERTIDE – directed by John Barnard – SPOILERS ⁓ It is the ninety-eighth consecutive day of night, and dawn is not coming anytime soon. Something must have changed the Earth’s axial tilt, because no place remains dark for that long …

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Your Songs Remind Me of Swimming

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Les cinq diables (The Five Devils) – directed by Lรฉa Mysius – SPOILERS Eight-year-old Vicky Soler (Sally Dramรฉ) lives in a small mountain village several hours north of Marseilles, somewhere between Grenoble and the five Aiguilles du Diable from which …

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When the Wolfbane Blooms…

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WOLF PACK – Season 1 Episode 8 – SPOILERS Several young wolves get in trouble. Everett (Armani Jackson) is detained for a 72- hour psychiatric evaluation; Blake (Bella Shepard) and her brother Danny (Nevada Jose) are placed in the custody …

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Wolves Are Monogamous and They Don’t Climb Trees

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WOLF PACK – Season 1 – Episodes 6 & 7 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ After doing mushrooms at Tia’s party, Baron (Chase Liefeld) transforms into a wolf-like humanoid. Kristin Ramsey (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is the first to find him in …

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Mid-First Season Thoughts on Wolf Pack

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(limited spoilers) ⁓ It is a story is about two forest fires, both of them werewolf-connected. Eighteen years ago, in the first of the fires, Park Ranger Garrett Briggs (Rodrigo Santoro) found two orphaned wolf cubs which he adopted after …

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Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright

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WOLF PACK – Episode 101 – From a Spark to a Flame – SPOILERS ⁓ For personal reasons, high school student Blake Navarro (Bella Shepard) insists on being without a phone, or a computer, or email. When a forest fire …

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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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Opening Doors and Pulling Some Strings

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PAPER GIRLS – Season 1 Episodes 6-8 – SPOILERS On her birthday, Mac (Sofia Rosinsky) tells KJ (Fina Strazza) about her fatal illness, and the two of them decide to visit Mac’s grave. The gravestone has only the years of …

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Tannie Maria’s Comforting Cookery

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RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER – Season 1 – Episodes 1-4 – (minor spoilers) For seven years, Maria (Maria Doyle Kennedy) wrote the recipe column for the Klein Karoo Gazette, so when it was decided an advice column would sell …

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Partying With the Brandmans in 1999

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PAPER GIRLS – Episodes 3, 4, & 5 – (speculative recap) ⁓ On the day the Paper Girls arrive in 2019, Larry Radowski (Nate Coddry) records a message reminding himself of who he is. He does so to safeguard himself …

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First November – Four Twenty-six am

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PAPER GIRLS – Episodes 1 & 2 – (speculative recap) ⁓ Erin Tieng (Ali Wong) is awakened before dawn by unexpected noises coming from her kitchen. She uses a landline to leave a phone message for a friend alerting them …

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When Monster Hunters Close a Door…

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ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 10 – SPOILERS At least two Buffy parallels can be identified easily. Lilly (Samantha Aucoin) is not named class protector, but she is crowned prom queen, and when it becomes …

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The Many Faces of Juliet

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ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 9 – SPOILERS The new monster in town is a Castorlux (Castor + Pollux). It appears initially in a “blank body” that looks like a grey mannequin, and mimics the …

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On the Dream Weaver Train

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ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 8 – SPOILERS All those involved with Astrid and Lilly’s monster hunting (except for Val) find themselves in the school library on a Saturday afternoon. Most are there for six …

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An Extraordinarily Oral Episode

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ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 7 – SPOILERS Brutus (Olivier Renaud) tells Astrid and Lilly about this week’s monster: “Copiosus Liberi is its name and reproduction is its game. Specifically, making thousands of little mini-me’s. …

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Can’t Fight the Moonlight

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ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 – Episode 6 – SPOILERS Candace (Julia Doyle) has been told by her mother that unless she gets an A+ in Biology, she will have to drop out of the school …

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Lighting the Corners of the Mind

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ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 5 – SPOILERS A Memoragatu (Jana Gillis) comes through the portal and makes several people relive the worst moments of their childhood. The beast has very long fingernails, and also …

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Down The Up Movator (Staircase)

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ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 4 – SPOILERS We learn a lot about science teacher Frank Frick (Colin Furlong). His favourite hobbies are dessert bars, finding interesting Korean food, and improv. His significant other is …

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Dodgeball, Tuna Salad, and a Raging She-Devil

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ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 3 – SPOILERS Brutus (Olivier Renaud) decides to help Astrid and Lilly conquer their fears with tactics likely borrowed from THE PINK PANTHER‘s Cato (but instead of randomly attacking, he …

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Skinning the (Figurative) Zordnuck

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ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 2 – SPOILERS Astrid’s exuberance over successfully dispatching last episode’s monster gets the better of her. She screams her happiness to the heavens and a rift opens up above the …

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Fixing a Hole Where the Rain Gets In

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ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Season 1 Episode 1 – SPOILERS Astrid (Jana Morrison) and Lilly (Samantha Aucoin) are high school students whose unusual hobby is spying on their classmates after school. Their hero is Olivia Benson, Mariska …

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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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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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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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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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Wynonna Earp – Some Clues To Season 4b

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Area 33 will begin its TV coverage with Wynonna Earp Season 4b, which premieres 5 March at 10/9c on SyFy in the US and on the CTV SciFi Channel in Canada. A Wynonna Earp episode usually shares its title with …

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