Category: TV series
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Recap: Last Tango in Halifax, S1 E3
Last week, Caroline (Sarah Lancashire) drove off with her two boys and Celia (Anne Reid), leaving John (Tony Gardner) standing in the middle of the road at the farm. That’s where we start up this week, with Caroline having an emotional breakdown in the car as she drives erratically away. Caroline stops the car and…
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A Downton Abbey Season 4 Preview (Video)
Downton Abbey fans, I found a tiny tidbit about season 4 to help tide you over. Hope it helps with the pain of waiting. Season 3 of Downton Abbey ended with Lady Mary Crawley giving birth to a son as his father accidentally smashed his car into a tree and died. Season 4 doesn’t begin…
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We Need More Young Geeky Female Role Models on TV
In my other life as a web educator, I spoke on a panel at WordCamp last weekend. The panel was billed this way: Developer Diversity: The Mars/Venus Thing and WordPress Moderator: Karen Arnold Panelists: Suzette Franck, Alison Barrett, Daryl L. L. Houston, Virginia DeBolt, Mark Casias The discussion was about how to get more women in…
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Fringe: A New Obsession
Fringe completed its 5th and final season earlier this year. There were 100 episodes in this Sci Fi drama full of parallel universes, strange beasts, and far out science – or “fringe” science – concepts. When it first came out, back in 2008, I watched a few episodes, but my attention was spotty. It was…
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Recap: Last Tango in Halifax (S1, E2)
We begin back in the cafe where the two daughters went last week to retrieve their parents. They are shocked when the newly engaged Celia and Alan (Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi) announce to their children that they are getting married. Instead of congratulations for the announcement, Gillian (Nicola Walker) rushes off to the loo…
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Dollhouse: Reality Catches Up with Fiction
I’m a Dollhouse fan, so this tweet from @HostilePoet_17 caught my eye. THE DOLLHOUSE IS REAL! #dollhouse #Thoughtpocalypse Can I have Topher so? http://t.co/Twcl4KiPoj — Dara (@HostilePoet_17) September 12, 2013 The tweet lead me to this story in TIME Magazine : Memories Can Now Be Created — And Erased — in a Lab. In TIME,…
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The Walking Dead Dr. Seuss Style (Video)
There is so much creativity in the world it’s amazing. Image ©CineFix
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Recommended: Last Tango in Halifax
Last Tango in Halifax is a 2012 British series which started on PBS last night. There are only 6 episodes in season 1, so get organized fast to watch this one. Last Tango in Halifax is all kinds of love stories, chiefly one between Celia and Alan, played by Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi. Here’s…
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Orphan Black explores the question of who owns a woman’s body
Tatiana Maslany recently gave an interview to TV Guide. They were talking to her about her upcoming role as Aziz Ansari’s love interest on Parks and Recreation, but the conversation quickly turned to Orphan Black and clones. In the final episode of season one on Orphan Black, the clone Cosima, a scientist, does some binary…
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Ray Donovan is a Wow!
I’ve never liked Jon Voight. I don’t have a good reason, he’s just never done anything for me. Of course I’ve seen him in a lot of things – there’s no avoiding the man. But, wow, he found the vehicle of a lifetime in Ray Donovan on Showtime. He is so perfectly Mickey Donovan –…