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My So-Cast Life – Strangers In The House
The grim spectre of death ties everything together for our heroes as Sharon’s dad goes to the hospital, forcing Angela and Sharon to confront their “thing,” and Patty and Graham to confront their “thing.” Plus: who’s using Brian Krakow this week? Matt and Kat discuss!
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Destroy All Monsters: DEEP SPACE NINE And The Challenge Of Community
You owe Star Trek: Deep Space Nine a second look. It might be a good way to drain the time between now and Bryan Fuller’s Star Trek reboot next year. The best aspects of Deep Space Nine set a benchmark that Fuller (who started his writing career with a one-shot on the series) will be…
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My So-Cast Life – Why Jordan Can’t Read
He calls her Red… but who the hell is “her?” It’s a nosedive straight back into My So-Called Life‘s favourite topic – Angela’s pathological fixation with Jordan Catalano – in the one where notes are passed, songs are sung, and Jordan can’t read. Oh, the angst! Plus, as usual, hilarious diary entries from 1994 from…
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Destroy All Monsters: Mindfulness In STAR WARS
This one, obviously, means a lot to me! I’ve been on the mindfulness/meditation journey for a couple of years now, ever since I decided to start taking the fight back to my own anxiety disorder (which isn’t a very mindful notion, is it?). The importance of mindfulness as an anxiety strategy, and its centrality in…
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My So-Cast Life – The Substitute
A real deep-dive this week, as we tackle my favourite episode of My So-Called Life, “The Substitute” – including a very special not-quite-a-diary entry, and many rhapsodic talkings with respect to my high school English teacher, who definitely would not have approved of my use of the word “talkings” just now.
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Destroy All Monsters: My Team’s Better Than Your Team, So There
Kind of proud of this one, mostly because it started as an all-out rant about internet argument culture and somehow metastasized into an appreciation of how the DC Expanded Universe, through its Infinite Earths model, might actually be a better gambit for consumer choice than my beloved MCU.
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Welcome to T17
It’s official – Tederick.com has been migrated to WordPress, receiving its first new look n’ feel in more than half a decade.
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My So-Cast Life – The Zit
So Sharon’s life is, like, developing, and so are her boobs, and so is a big gross zit on Angela’s chin, and so is Patty’s need to bond with her daughter through ill-advised beauty contests. It’s a mess! Let’s all try to feel like we might be beautiful as we re-watch the fifth episode of…
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Destroy All Monsters: In DAREDEVIL’s Battle Of Fanboy Wet Dreams, Elektra Wins
There are problems with Marvel’s Daredevil. I am an unabashed fan of the show – I have called its first season the best thing Marvel Entertainment has ever done, and its newly-released second season easily lives up to the benchmark – but I won’t deny any of the series’ more problematic aspects. Some of these…
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My So-Cast Life – Father Figures
What do the IRS, banana cream pie, the Grateful Dead and the way we feel about our fathers have in common? Easy: it’s the fourth episode of My So-Called Life, where we go deep on Angela’s relationship with Graham in the wake of the potential extra-marital affair, AND Patty’s relationship with her own father, as…