TV
Stuff we like and don’t like
February 28, 2018Stuff We Like: New Girl If you’re looking for an entertaining show to binge on Netflix, look no further. New Girl, starring Zooey Deschanel as Jessica Day, is consistently hilarious from season 1 through 6. The show begins with Jessica discovering her boyfriend is cheating on her. She then moves out, and through a Craigslist advertisement, ends up becoming a roommate to three guys. The show follows the roommates as they deal with their messy love lives, strange work issues, and unique drinking games. The quick jokes and pop culture references happen so fast they might go over…
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Some of the best and worst examples of sex positivity in media
February 9, 2018Best: Pride (2014) In a way this movie is sex positive because it isn’t just about sex or sexuality. It’s about a group of gay and lesbian men and women who go to a small mining town in Wales during…
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The Good, the Alright, and the Just Plain Bad of sex work in media
February 7, 2018Sex work has been featured openly in the media since at least the 1950s, but we haven’t necessarily gotten better at portraying it in the last seventy or so years. Some shows and movies still feed into negative stereotypes and…
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Stranger Things 2: stranger, darker and more grown-up than season 1
November 18, 2017Season two picks up about a year after season one ends, but the story is put together so well that you’re pulled back into Hawkins seamlessly. Stranger Things holds a special place in my heart alongside all the other stories…
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Why Game of Thrones season 7 is both the best and worst season yet
September 4, 2017First of all, I’m a huge fan of Game of Thrones and I read all the books, so I really wanted to love this season. Second of all, spoiler alert: I will be discussing many events from throughout the season…
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The Switch is a show that tells the stories of transgender people through humour
July 31, 2017Created by Amy Fox of Trembling Void Studios and Elizabeth Marston, The Switch is a show that seeks to represent transgender people in a way that isn’t shallow. Rather than appear as a convenient moral lesson in a show, as…
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. concludes its strongest season yet
May 23, 2017Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is the broadcast television arm of Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), whose recent conclusion of its fourth season saw what many found to be its most compelling season yet. First airing in September 2013, Agents follows…
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Unfortunate might be in the title, but it’s no way to describe Netflix’s latest series
January 23, 2017Based on the quirky and delightfully dark 1999 book series, Lemony Snicket’s A series of Unfortunate Events is the latest addition to Netflix’s growing library of original content. Consisting of eight episodes which cover the first four books, the show…
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Stuff We Like and Stuff We Don’t Like
January 16, 2017Stuff We Like — The Night Manager Good looking people, even better looking locations, and chilling suspense make The Night Manager an incredible miniseries. Tom Hiddleston plays Jonathan Pine, a seemingly non-threatening night manager at a hotel in Cairo. It…
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Stuff we like and don’t like
January 16, 2017Stuff We Like — The Night Manager Good looking people, even better looking locations, and chilling suspense make The Night Manager an incredible miniseries. Tom Hiddleston plays Jonathan Pine, a seemingly non-threatening night manager at a hotel in Cairo. It…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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