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The (Wo)Man in the Mirror: A Review of Season One of The Innocents


The Innocents, aka The Innøcents (2018) Released by: Netflix Rating: TV-MA Created by: Simon Duric and Hania Elkington Number of episodes: 8 Why I Chose It: British accents are like catnip to me, as is the premise of body-swapping. Perhaps I watched the original Freaky Friday—the one starring Barbara Harris and a teenage Jodie Foster as the mother-daughter swapees—too many…

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Obsess Much?: Why Isn’t In Death on my TV?


Back in May, five months late, I joined Speculative Chic’s New Year’s Resolution Project. My goal was/is to read all forty-seven books and eight novellas in the In Death series by J.D. Robb, aka Nora Roberts. Since then, I’ve been a little…preoccupied with the series. See my last two monthly posts examining the series. (For those keeping count: I’m on…

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Sound Off! Sense8 Series Finale “Amor Vincit Omnia”


Welcome back to Sound Off!, a semi-regular column where members of Speculative Chic gather together to chat about the latest BIG THING in entertainment. This time, join your cluster to discuss the Sense8 series finale, “Amor Vincit Omnia,” which premiered on Netflix in the United States on Friday, June 8, 2018. Sound Off! is meant to be a reaction, but not necessarily…

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Why the World Needs Sense8


If you haven’t watched Sense8 before, this post will be something of a spoiler in that I’ll be talking about the world the show has created (in the Welcome to Your Cluster section) as well as the characters as human beings (or variations of). I’ll also make general reference to the plot but I won’t talk about specific plot lines, and…

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My Favorite Things: Evil Clowns, Immortal Goblins, Exceptionally Adorable Artwork, and Sense8 Returns!


They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, a weekly column where we gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we bring you the second season of one of our favorite speculative shows, a trailer for a thrilling new horror…

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Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Doctor Who and Sense8 Christmas Specials


The parties are over, and the lights have come down. Winter has settled over the land (at least in this hemisphere), bringing cold weather and the wasteland of television’s midseason hiatus. Now that mid-January is upon us, let us remember fonder, brighter times. Specifically, the 2016 Christmas specials of Doctor Who and Sense8. Rather than a review article of these…

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