Entertainment

Transparent

Transparent. I watched this Amazon Original series before it was tapped for the Golden Globes. Jeffrey Tambor stars as a father who comes out to his family as transgender. The story flashes back to when Maura first discovers her sexuality (after being married and having 3 kids) and how the family responds to her admission. […]

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Boyhood

The 2014 movie Boyhood follows a boy (surprise), Mason, from age 5 to 18. The movie used the same cast members and filmed over 13 real years, allowing us to watch the lead actor, Ellar Coltrane grow up from scene to scene. This was simultaneously interesting and disconcerting. Here I was watching a fictional, contrived

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Spiders

I never considered that I had an issue with spiders. I would scoff at people who couldn’t shoo a spider out of the house or couldn’t kill/remove a spider. It’s just a household pest like flies or silverfish. I’ve been the primary spider killer in my house (I also remove dead and partially consumed rodents

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Doctors 9 through 11

the doctors as ponies by_lissy_strata Last year, my kids became obsessed with Dr. Who, the long-running BBC science fiction TV show. Their friends were all watching the show and pressured my kids into watching it too. They binge-watched during the first few weeks of summer and emerged complete Whovians. Because I knew the time commitment

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