TW: rape.
(Original post at The Boar)
Welcome back to week seven of the Jessica Jones series blog! Last week ended on a pretty pessimistic note, so let’s all take a moment to prepare ourselves for the fallout. Take a deep breath… Ready? Let’s go.
Tag: tv
Jessica Jones: ‘AKA The Sandwich Saved Me’
TW: rape.
(Original post at The Boar)
AKA The Sandwich Saved Me has thankfully built on some of the points I brought up last week- the action of this week’s episode felt much tighter and more compelling, centred around the ultimately unsuccessful capture of Kilgrave by Jessica, Trish and Simpson.
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Jessica Jones: ‘AKA 99 Friends’
TW: rape.
(Original post at The Boar)
Welcome back to week four of the Jessica Jones series blog! Settle down, there’s a ton to talk about.
Jessica Jones: ‘AKA It’s Called Whiskey’
TW: rape.
(Original post at The Boar)
It’s week three of the Jessica Jones series blog! Welcome back! Now, down to business- quite literally.
Jessica Jones: ‘AKA Crush Syndrome’
TW: rape.
(Original post at The Boar)
Welcome back to the Jessica Jones series blog! Well done for resisting the seductive pull of Netflix and sticking to one episode a week- you have the restraint to get a first class degree and will probably survive the zombie apocalypse.
Jessica Jones: ‘AKA Ladies Night’
(Original post at The Boar)
Welcome to the Jessica Jones series blog! Join me once a week to discuss one of the breakout shows of last year- if you can avoid binge watching the entire 13 hour season in one sitting. Damn you, Netflix.
House of Cards: Season Three
“Legacy is their only child.”
After a week of wading through Samsung product placementsand elaborate visual metaphors, I have emerged from my viewing of season three of House of Cards.
Broad City: In Heat, or hot water?
(TW: rape)
Original post at The Boar
Broad City was universally hailed by critics as the best new sitcom of 2014- a riot of egoism, drug use and nineties hip hop, the first season follows the lives of two twenty-something slackers as they attempt to navigate the surreal yet mundane elements of life in New York.
The show’s writers Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer play fictionalised versions of themselves who are younger, stupider and grosser, but are utterly relatable. Its jubilant and irreverent expression of femininity has given the show a positive status in the feminist community- which is why it was all the more painful to find out that the latest episode ‘In Heat’ was centred on a rape joke.
The Top Ten Moments From Broad City Season One
Broad City burst onto our screens in 2014 with an immediately popular debut season, showcasing a uniquely joyous expression of slackerdom and riotous self-absorption. Eminently quoteable and relatable, the show exudes confidence and cool from its very bones, all thanks to the talented comic duo of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer.
These fictionalised versions of the two women’s younger selves have given us plenty of hilarious moments, and to celebrate the beginning of its second season tonight, I’ve picked my top ten favourite moments from Broad City season one.
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Broadchurch: Season Two, Episode Two
“I want my old life back.”
Broadchurch returns for a gripping second episode, as the Sandbrook mystery continues and Joe Miller’s court case grows tenser.
Bethan Ackerley 