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(This recap was originally published on October 11, 2013.) Previously on Wentworth, Jaqs framed Franky for drugs, sending her off for a long stay in the slot. Erica was sad to see her go, but also a bit relieved, since it left her emotionally free to pursue her engagement to her fiancé. Bea was increasingly worried…
CAUTION: MAJOR SPOILERS ABOUT SEASON TWO OF GLOW TO FOLLOW. In the year 2018, TV is proving to be one of our most valuable weapons for warding off despair, and Netflix’s GLOW might just be the highest-caliber gun in our collective arsenal. It’s got a a diverse ensemble of women, jokes galore, heart aplenty, montages in abundance,…
The first thing any story asks you to do is believe. Believe that there’s a magical world hidden behind the bricks of that alleyway. Believe that spaceships can leap across the galaxy in less time than it takes to make popcorn. Believe that there is a hospital in Seattle that only hires doctors who are…
At the close of her June 19 broadcast, Rachel Maddow broke down in tears. She’d just been handed a report from the Associated Press revealing details of the “tender age” facilities in South Texas housing a rapidly growing number of babies and toddlers ripped from their parents’ arms as they sought to enter the United…
So you want to stop watching a television show. (Maybe that show rhymes with “Poopergirl” and maybe it doesn’t.) “Just stop watching it,” some people might say, but those people are not the target audience for this website. Those of us who do know what love is, know that committing to a show is a…
Last year, your favorite anxious autistic asshole skulked around Clexacon like a cat in a rocking chair factory. This year, it was once more unto the breach. Did she succeed? Did she make friends? Did she throw up all over the hotel? Time and this review will tell! Oh my god. The lines. Lines everywhere.…
The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) is a perfect beach read. I write this knowing that the term “beach read” carries with it a faint whiff of disapprobation and unseriousness, and you could say the same thing about the topics TSOJP concerns itself with: teens, queerness, romantic comedy, fashion,…
Whatever you think Disobedience is, it’s going to surprise you. Like the body of an old lover, under your hands again after many years, it’s familiar, yet surpassingly strange. It makes use of some of queer cinema’s most shopworn tropes, but brings them to adulthood, stripped of their fairytale illusions about themselves. (That’s not a…
Every woman alive knows what it’s like to be obsessed with another woman. Conjure her in your mind. You can see her. She is impeccably dressed. Maybe you hate her. Maybe you idolize her. Maybe she’s your best friend. You might want her, but even if you’re as straight as a ruler you still know…
The year 2018 can be best described by the opening voiceover to Mad Max: Fury Road: “As the world fell, each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy: me, or everyone else.” The panic of 2017 has given way to a far more insidious exhaustion,…