The recrudescence in the last couple of days of videos such as “Killing us Softly” (which you can find below) makes me happy in that the discourse surrounding the ridiculous unrealistic expectations with regard to women’s bodies is yet again at the forefront of my discussions with many of my girlfriends. However, I’m also bothered… Read More Women, body image, models and the such
So I decided to read the first chapter of Creating a New Mind again. It comes a day after I indulged in an episode of Fringe, which (as those of you who also follow my other blog, Sahar’s Reviews, already know) is one of my favourite TV shows. One of the main themes in Fringe… Read More Creating a New Mind with a little help from Dana Scully and Peter Bishop
It’s been a little while (OK, fine, not that little a while) since I have posted reflections on this blog. The reasons are numerous, but most important is the fact that when your thoughts are jumbled and your direction, unclear, it’s rather hard to reflect on anything coherent enough to be shared with others. Interestingly… Read More Reflections of a MIA blogger
This is the most impossible review I have had to do in a long while. After last week’s interview with Fringe’s executive producers, Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman, I have become the most paranoid of fans. I can’t help but wonder if every single little thing is a clue and have developed what I have… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 20: Brown Betty
For an episode with a doomsday-sounding title, “Point of No Return” was quite uplifting, giving hope to fans that things are turning, but for the better. The title is all the more apt that this is Supernatural’s 100th episode. Jeremy Carver, who wrote it, did an awesome job (as always), and I’m happy he didn’t… Read More TV Review: Supernatural, Season 5, Episode 18: Point of No Return
Oh. My. God. Those were the words that rang in my head over and over as the closing credits of Supernatural’s episode “99 Problems” rolled on my screen. What a poignant ending. If he wasn’t already, this is probably the episode that forever endeared Dean Winchester to all Supernatural fans. Dean is frantically driving the… Read More TV Review: Supernatural Season 5, Episode 17: 99 Problems
Supernatural continues its meticulous deconstruction of Dean in the 16th episode of its fifth season, “Dark Side of the Moon”. The episode’s plot is relatively simple: Sam and Dean are killed by hunters angry at Sam starting the Apocalypse. In Heaven, Sam and Dean are told by Castiel to look for Joshua, an angel who… Read More TV Review: Supernatural, Season 5, Episode 16: Dark Side of the Moon
He finally knows. This week’s episode of Fringe was the culmination of weeks of taunting and tormenting. The cat is finally out of the bag as Peter found out about his otherworldly origins. It was in a simple and rather undramatic way that he found out, but it made for a great scene. This episode… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 19: The Man from the Other Side
As Aaron would say, there are no plot holes in Fringe. Now while this is not always the case (and Aaron might have been a little sarcastic), “White Tulip” certainly doesn’t seem to have any plot holes, which is rather unusual for a story about time travel. It’s a normal evening; harried workers are heading… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 18: White Tulip
It was one of the shortest hours on television in, well, a week. It was so short in fact that when someone mentioned there was only 10 minutes left, I checked three watches before realising that he was right – it was already 21h50 and there was only 10 minutes left in the episode. You… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 17: Olivia. In the Lab. With the revolver.