Tag: Wentworth

(This recap was originally published on July 28, 2016, and if the restoration of these recaps has added something to your life, please consider a small donation to yours truly. I’m @Elaine-Atwell on Venmo!) I’ve been searching everywhere for words. I ran after them in the park, where people wondered what I was doing to…

(This recap was originally published on July 22, 2016.) First of all: I don’t know. I don’t know if I’ll be writing a eulogy for Bea or Allie next week, and I don’t know because Danielle Cormack has refused to tell me (though she did have the patience of a saint when I frantically DMed…

(This recap was originally published on July 15, 2016.) I am writing this in an airplane flying high over the Deep South on the day after my birthday. My first tattoo (acquired yesterday) is burning into my side and I am nursing the kind of hangover only two weeks in New Orleans with your best…

(This recap was originally published on July 8, 2016) Life-ruiners. All of ‘em. I hope that’s the job title listed on everyone involved with this show’s passport. I hope it’s printed on their tombstones. I hope—and that has always been the most dangerous thing I can do as a lesbian TV viewer.  Of course, we…

(This recap was originally published on June 30, 2016) Writing about an episode like this is a little like being a sculptor staring down a perfect block of marble. I hesitate to make the first chip, to search for a shape hidden in the stone, because it is not possible to improve upon something already…

(This recap was originally published on June 23, 2016.) Immediately after finishing this episode of Wentworth, I went out to the backyard and cried a cry that had been building up for weeks. And because I majored in film and theater, even as I cried, a voice in my head said: “Ah, there’s that catharsis business…

(This recap was originally published on June 16, 2016.) Hello, friends. It’s going to have to be a quick one this week owing both to the fact that this episode was light on our favorite star-crossed rap duo and the fact that my laptop charger has reached the end of its (all too brief) life,…

(This recap was originally published on June 9, 2016.) Too often, television dramas labor under the delusion that to keep our interest, they must constantly be going darker: destroying relationships, turning characters evil, and upping the ante on graphic violence. Of course, all these can be effective strategies when used sparingly, but over time, we…

(This recap was originally published on June 2, 2016.) Hello, loves. Much like Game of Thrones (which also concerns the machinations of violent people striving to rule an empire of mud and death) Wentworth has its “action” episodes and its “setup” episodes, and this week’s entry falls into the latter category. Which isn’t to say it wasn’t excellent; every…