TV
SHOWSTORM: An interview with Etchos
August 6, 2025On August 6, Vancouver-based Filipino artist Etchos will debut SHOWSTORM at the Vancouver Black Library, accompanied by Couch Jams. The project is a live multimedia performance of Etchos’ new extended play (EP), performed alongside a screening of an original four-episode miniseries. SHOWSTORM is a crowdfunded project centering themes of immigration, growth, and survival, from a passionate artist sharing her journey and growth with people in hopes that it speaks to them too. This event and the series are set to be vibrant experiences full of memories — ones to be remembered, and ones to be made. The Peak sat down…
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Why I love sitcoms
May 24, 2023For some people, the forced laugh track that follows every bad punchline in sitcom history makes them cringe. To me, it’s the lullaby that lulled me to sleep on the nights when anxiety was high and it was difficult to…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Watching TV in class
July 22, 2022I get it, class can be — and often is — super boring. And I’ll admit that I’ve taken the occasional opportunity to check out Instagram to see which of my friends are on their way to Spain, leaving me…
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Sex Education breaks through the taboo around teenage sex but falls to overplayed clichés
February 17, 2019Sex Education is a nitty-gritty, in-depth exploration of high schoolers’ sex lives, fully loaded with awkwardness, charming characters, and physical comedy. The new British Netflix show follows Otis, a sexually inexperienced outcast in school whose mom is a sex…
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We don’t always need media to be good, it just needs to be reliable
October 11, 2018Media has gotten better and better over the past few decades. Films budgets are swelling, TV content is way more diverse, and even mainstream video games are made with borderline cinematic graphics and writing. The best of what we can…
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The inaccuracies in medical shows make for good TV, but its ability to misinform is a frustrating cost
September 21, 2018We live in the day and age of hypochondriacs, WebMD self-educated “doctors,” and self-diagnosis. It is no surprise that medicine-based television has skyrocketed in popularity; Grey’s Anatomy enters its fifteenth season at the end of this month. Medical shows have…
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Show versus Show: RuPaul’s Drag Race and Drag Race Thailand
July 10, 2018Warning: this review contains spoilers for both shows! RuPaul’s Drag Race (Season 10, 2018) RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR) turns 10 and is back with finely orchestrated drama, bigger wigs, and even bigger personalities. RuPaul herself makes big promises about this…
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World News Beat
June 29, 2018Pope introduces plans for reform in the Vatican Pope Francis informed Reuters during an interview of his plans to reform the Catholic Church. These plans include having a cardinal take charge of the Office of Papal Charities. This change will…
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Need diverse, non-stereotypical characters who grow and solve crime together? Look no further
June 24, 2018One of the reasons I love the cop comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine (B99) is that it has a truly diverse cast of characters. They don’t throw in stereotypical characters for the sake of diversity like many other shows do — they…
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Stuff we like and don’t like
March 13, 2018Stuff We Like: Gossip Girl’s Glorious Return Spotted: our timeless non-judging breakfast club making it back to screens big and small. That’s right—Gossip Girl is back in town, after a long hiatus from Canadian Netflix. Gossip Girl’s Jefferson-esque…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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