Lydia Mitchell

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RuPaul's Drag Race: 11x10 Dragracadabra

Best drag race maxi challenge we've had in a while.

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Grand Designs: 11x07 London: The Disco Home

One of the most insane grand designs ever.

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Boys Over Flowers: 2x01 One year later... At last, it returns!!

Woah lots of swearing, unexpected. This episode was also wayyyy longer than anticipated. Lots of interesting new characters to meet and some good old fashioned shojo plot-complications/ tropes.

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The Good Wife: 5x03 A Precious Commodity

Such a challenging topic for a mainstream tv show to tackle.

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The Good Wife: 3x20 Pants on Fire

Krestiva is such a scumbag, this is great television.

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Glee

The first three seasons were fresh, entertaining, and timely. Later seasons are lackluster or trying too hard.

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FairyTale: A True Story

A childhood favourite with an astoundingly well-known cast. The soundtrack and script manage to capture both childhood whimsy and the desperation of people in the middle of a terrible war needing to believe in something more than their reality.

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Glee: 4x01 The New Rachel

Really uninvested in new characters. Glad to see Unique become a regular. Kate Hudson's and Whoopi's cameos are the highlights. The formula where they kept following old characters outside of glee while simultaneously trying to replace the archetypes at McKinley is uncomfortable.

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Glee: 3x22 Goodbye

A lot of tv shows reach a point where it's the perfect point to say goodbye instead of continuing the series. This is high point for glee and it's a perfect farewell for the show we've loved.

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Lucifer: 3x24 A Devil of My Word

If the show has to end at least it does it with a bang that reminds us what was so good in the pilot.

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Born in China

Great for younger audiences and beautiful visuals. This film occasionally feels like it lacks the integrity of other nature documentaries, with heavy handed sound effects, editing and narration. Indeed, at times I wondered if scenes were created with CGI or just with captive animals (tbf I can't find anything on the internet that supports this notion). Its a lovely movie with cute stories, but maybe not to everyone's taste, at least no one ran lemmings of a cliff to make this one.

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Glee: 1x02 Showmance

The throwaway lines are so quick and funny.

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Blood+: 1x11 After the Dance

Julia is the best comic relief character.

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Nine to Five

It's wonderful to see how well this movie has held up, the cast is charming and the jokes are still funny.

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Lucifer: 3x13 Til Death Do Us Part

The Fan Service Episode. Lost it when they played Lucifer by SHINee.

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Lucifer: 3x11 City of Angels?

Although this was a filler episode it was fun to see a hellish Lucifer and Maze again. The writers seem to have lost what made this show special recently and it was refreshing to revisit the tone of the pilot episode.

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Hidden Kingdoms

A decent addition to the BBC Earth collection and Stephen Fry does a bang up job as narrator. The "constructed storytelling" and cgi can be jarring.

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The Craft

Holds up extraordinarily well for a 20 year old flick. The aesthetic is the ultimate 90s grunge teen movie but it manages to exploit tropes of the genre. Fairuza Balk is a show stealer.

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Sleepless in Seattle

In which Meg Ryan is a stalker, emotionally cheating on her fiancee. Tom Hanks is a charming widower.

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Wild Wild West

Cheesy, camp and cringe all in one place!

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Victoria: 2x04 The Sins of the Father

Fantastic episode, explores so many of the subtleties of identity and role within the palace.

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How I Met Your Mother: 5x12 Girls vs. Suits

The show tune at the end of this episode is possibly a season highlight in a great season. We get tantalisingly close to seeing Ted's wife.

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Bones: 4x22 The Double Death of the Dearly Departed

This premise of this episode is so ridiculous it's enjoyable.

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Not Today, Bianca: 1x02 Santa Baby

Well that was weird, what even is Kombucha?

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Death Note

Forget what you know about the Japanese thriller manga series, once you do that this movie gets a lot better. Now turn the gore and profanity up a few notches and remember this was made for American audiences and at times plot points are spelled out for you. The theme of rules and in/justice feature throughout. It does irk me that this is not as clever a game of wits between L and Light as the original material. Visually it's good and the soundtrack is probably the best part of the movie. Recommended for fans of Twilight.

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Horns

Strange film, visually beautiful. Daniel Radcliffe's American accent was occasionally grating, however his performance is solid. Was surprised by the Heather Graham cameo, didn't know she was still acting.

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Dracula 2000

There are some surprisingly well known names in this movie, not least of all the massive Virgin music promo that it seems to be (although full points for symbolism). So late 90s it hurts in places, it lives up to the tagline of it being set fully in the time it was made. Uses a lot of the cliches of modern vampire fiction, I'm looking at you New Orleans. Pieces of this movie are fantastic and the climax is pretty decent but the overall impression is that this movie is terrible.

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The Family Law: 2x01 New Beginnings

They've really ramped up Jenny's misuse of English, its nearly too heavy handed to be funny.

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The Man in the Iron Mask

This is an enjoyable movie, even if not not technically or critically brilliant. A reasonable modern remake of a classic film, the setting is rich and the plot well paced. It's aged moderately well since 1998 and you can enjoy Titanic-era DiCaprio with luscious locks. Lots of familiar faces, Jeremy Irons makes a sarcastic and entertaining Aramis. John Malkovich is a bit of a downer even though it's Porthos who's supposed to have lost his lust for life (although not the ladies). Was surprised to see Hugh Laurie make a cameo though he has no speaking part.

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iZombie: 3x09 Twenty-Sided, Die

As a fan of D&D this episode was heaps of fun to watch.

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