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  • The Buffyverse

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    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the tv series) debuted in 1997. It’s based on the 1992 movie of the same name starring Kristy Swanson but the tv series takes the premise more seriously and expands the mythology of the slayer universe. Buffy lasted 7 seasons and spawned the spinoff series, Angel, which lasted 5 seasons. It’s…

  • Writer Spotlight: Ben Edlund

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    I always pay attention to the writers on shows that I like.  I look for them on other shows that I watch.  The good ones write good scripts wherever they go.  The best might even land showrunner gigs, like Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul).   My favorite Supernatural writer is Ben Edlund.  Edlund came…

  • The 7 Lives of Lea

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    The 7 Lives of Lea (aka Les 7 Vies de Léa) is a 2022 French series on Netflix that ticks a lot of my boxes: time travel, body swapping, interesting location. It’s a limited series (only seven episodes) based on the novel, Les Vies de Léo Belami by Nataël Trapp. By the title of the…

  • Anthology series

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    There are a lot of anthology series on tv these days. Not so much the old style anthology shows like The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits where each episode is a standalone story. The new anthology model is a new story each season with usually 10 or more episodes per season. I like this…

  • Psych

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    Psych was a long-running show on the USA cable network about a fake psychic detective, just like The Mentalist only funnier (Psych came first and they often made jokes comparing the two shows).  I wasn’t onboard from the beginning because I’d seen the ads for the show and it looked dumb.  But I was wrong. …

  • Twitch City

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    This one is a little obscure, outside of Canada anyway. It deserves to be more widely known. Twitch City only had two brief seasons, in 1998 and 2000. The show centers around Curtis (Don McKellar), a couch potato whose favorite tv show is a sleazy daytime talk show called The Rex Reilly Show. Rex Reilly…

  • We Are Lady Parts

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    We Are Lady Parts is a British sitcom about a punk band. The members of the band are all Muslim women of various ethnicities. Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey) is the lead singer and plays rhythm guitar. She’s tough, standoffish, and the only member of the group who doesn’t wear a headscarf. Her day job is…

  • Resident Alien

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    Resident Alien is a science fiction comedy series that currently airs on SyFy but is moving to USA for its 4th season (in 2025? no date has yet been announced). I’ve been evangelizing about this show since it first debuted in 2021 but it seems to still exist under the radar, which is why NBC…

  • Groundhog Day

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    In my last post I mentioned Groundhog Day as a theme for a binge list. What I meant by that is a list of episodes from varying tv shows that feature the “Groundhog Day” trope: a character or characters in the show get stuck in a time loop, like Bill Murray in the 1993 movie…

  • What is Bingeworthy?

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    Getting through the pandemic would have been a lot harder before the streaming age. At least we had plenty to watch while locked inside our homes. But even with (or because of) the thousands of options available, it can be hard to settle on something to watch. You can spend hours combing through Netflix, Prime…