Spoiler-free Smashing Telewitterings
I am enjoying Smash a lot. I don’t know how true to life it all is, but the picture they present of a behind-the-scenes view of the development of a Broadway musical is very compelling. As is Angelica...
View ArticleTelewitterings: diamonds and décolletage
First: Squee! Tonight we all get new Doctor Who!! And over the next month, many other good things will head back in our direction: here at Chez Dua, we’re stoked about Revenge (no, really!), Smash, and...
View ArticleLatest #BuffyRewatch is Up @tordotcom. Also, Glee!
Let’s get Interlocking! In other words, I’m up to “The Harsh Light of Day.” And if you want even more of my telethoughts, my Glee essay, “Who’s the Real LIMA Loser?,” went up this morning on Smart Pop...
View ArticleHalloween comes early on the #Buffyrewatch @tordotcom
I’m up to “Fear, Itself” this week on the Buffy Rewatch. Enjoy! State of the Office: This weekend I went off for what turned out to be a 7.5 km walk with Barb in Everett Crowley Park and environs while...
View ArticleTelewitterings: Sean Bean is not in World Without End (yet)
Two episodes in, World Without End seems to be Game of Thrones, with twice the rape, some okay medieval history, and none of the magic. That doesn’t mean it’s terrible: really, this is just a listing...
View ArticleTelewitterings – Arranging matches for Cumberbatches
Here at Chez Dua last weekend, we watched Parade’s End, a five-part mini-series based on the books by Ford Madox Ford. Look! The ‘Batch is blonde! And we enjoyed it very much indeed, but on one of our...
View ArticleIf it’s Tuesday, Sunnydale must be a-hopping on the @tordotcom #BuffyRewatch
This week’s essay is on “Checkpoint,” which has one of my favorite Buffy monologues. She smacks down someone(s) who really deserve it. And, as usual, there’s a lively follow-up discussion in the...
View ArticleTelewitterings: The Killing, S3
Somehow I didn’t mind all that much that the first two seasons of The Killing were slow-moving and, in their way, low on plot. I find Mirielle Enos fascinating and once he finally won me over, I became...
View ArticleTelewitterings: Hannibal, a.k.a. When Crafters Attack!
Season Two of Hannibal has begun and I am so happy to have it back. It’s stylish, gory, well-cast, and, as a weird bonus, filmed around here. Kelly walks past the building that plays Hannibal’s home...
View ArticleKeeping up with the Boresvilles
Yesterday I threw together a quick post about how things have been filled with what we around here, semi-ironically, call virtue: writing, teaching, flossing, hard work, tax accounting, healthy food,...
View ArticleSlings and Shelfies
A Daughter of No Nation is on the Shelfie Top 10 list for Most Anticipated SF and Fantasy books, in great company, with novels by Charlie Jane Anders, Kameron Hurley and Catherynne M. Valente. Review...
View ArticleTop Ten Telewitterings (aka my first MFA homework)
One of the things I’m doing in the first weeks of my MFA program is a top ten list of TV shows, based pretty much on whatever criteria I want, with notes on what makes them interesting. Here’s what I...
View ArticleCat Days of Summer
The last couple of days have been perfectly warm and yet not humid, not hot. It has felt as though Toronto had been lunging between rain and attempts at heat. And maybe that pattern will reassert– we...
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