This post will be updated on an ongoing basis as I watch things or change my mind about shows. Listed in no particular order. See 2022 reviews here.
I don’t review late night shows, game shows, reality TV, or sketch shows like SNL here. Though I do watch them here and there.
If it has a * then it was one of my faves.
- Backstage with Katherine Ryan – I enjoy Ryan roasting all of these comedians. Is this reality TV?
- Poker face – I stopped at episode 3. The contrived “on the run Agatha Christie” just wasn’t super believable at times but I may go back to this one.
- The Last of Us – super really boring?
- Mayfair Witches – I like Interview with the vampire better.
- Abbott Elementary – Carried over from 2022.
- Shrinking* – How can all these co-workers and friends feel so much like family to each other. What universe does this exist in because it seems so nice there.
- Carnival Row – Was too rushed yet they wasted an entire episode on Philo seeing things??? Also was this anti-communist propaganda??? Blondie actually started to become a well-rounded character in this one.
- Extraordinary* – See, Misfits didn’t have to end the way it did.
- Daisy Jones and The Six* – I just liked it.
- Shadow and Bone – the pace was good, but still so much didn’t make sense to me. Like how baddie made it out of the fold? I still don’t get that. Also, my favorite story line from season 1 felt very ignored in 2 – is the prison boy out or not?
This book is really more of a memoir that covers topics that other books like Bitch Doctrine and Trick Mirror handle a bit more skillfully. Even though myth is the lens it attempts to use, it barely looks through it. Myth is the excuse, not the reason this book exists. Most topics were a bit fleeting and would have better fit in blog posts or articles.
DNF. This felt more like a middle grade novel that had their MC aged up to market better? I have no doubt that a young teen would like this book more, but I was having a tough time believing that she was 17. I did appreciate the supportive, healthy family dynamic, though there was a bit of awkwardness when addressing the indigeneity of her cousin’s Hispanic wife, who very well might have been of indigenous North American decent but was bluntly described as not “Native” (pg 57). It wasn’t handled very well, in my opinion, and came off as policing indignity but I’m guessing the history between the Apache and Mexicans is why it was brought up in the first place. I also found it hard to believe that, with so many “supernatural things” being overt and undeniable in this version of the universe that we would still have places like Texas. I don’t think that, for instance, if it were impossible to deny such supernatural aspects like ghosts and the Fae (from Europe) and vampires that Christianity would have had such an impact that it did across the globe or that, therefore, colonialism would have still happened. I don’t think the world would be so similar as it was represented in this book. I found that hard to reconcile. But what I did love was her ghost dog, Kirby. That will rip your heart out.
I think I want to say that I think this book is what praxis without ethics looks like. He didn’t know what or why he was doing what he did at first. Maybe he did come to an answer, but did that make it right? Pretty sure many disturbed (is that the word I’m looking for? Troubled?) people have come to similar awakenings, after realizing why they did something after years of not being able to rationalize their behavior. Parts were so beautiful it brought me to tears, but ultimately the ending felt like he, a white man, was using indigenous meat-eating practices as just one more way to justify his own killing and eating, which, in my view, will never justify his eating and killing of animals for meat when he has other options and traditions available to him. That isn’t kinship. It’s him romanticizing the relations of one people with a species. His conclusions did not satisfy me. So, no, I don’t think he’s trying to understand why humans are still drawn to meat-eating. It’s not a question that needs to be asked any more than why do humans cause war or suffering or do evil. The answers are too varied and of course his conclusion fed into what he was already doing. What is the point on meditating on what is, if you also fail to imagine something better?
“The only way to really stop life from changing is to kill it.”
This book convinced me that embalming is ridiculous except for rare occasions so please burn me as is. 🚫⚰🚫
🧹🧹🧹When I requested this book I thought it was literally going to be a travel guide that recommended sites and that it would have pictures. Instead, it’s more of a travel log of someone going to places while giving historical context to witches. I learned more about saints than witches, honestly, and the author made that line blend more for me. I have a greater appreciation for Joan of Arc, for one. Here’s some quotes I liked.
Her lesbian experience = your cringe experience. It was honestly painfully awkward to read this book and for that reason I can’t say I recommend it. 😬😬😬
Got this during my CopyrightX course and forgot to post. Was an interesting way to learn about some of copyright history, but not about copyright itself, honestly. Some of it is now dated but get it for the raaaage.
Panda (Duh) 