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[Review] Supernatural and Real Life Horrors Intersect in Monsterland’s First Four Episodes

October 4, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

Encounters with mermaids, fallen angels, and other strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts in Monsterland, an anthology series based on the collection of stories from Nathan Ballingrud’s “North American Lake Monsters”.
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Filed Under: Reviews w/ Gayly Dreadful Tagged With: Ari Barkan, Ben Rappaport, Bill Camp, Charlie Tahan, Hamish Linklater, Hulu, Jonathan Tucker, Kaitlyn Dever, Marquis Rodriguez, Michael Hsu Rosen, Monsterland, Nadia Alexander, Nathan Balingrud, Nicole Beharie

[The Outsider recap w/ Gayly Dreadful] “Must/Can’t” Doesn’t Get The Job Done

March 9, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

Each week Joe (@bstolemyremote) and Terry (@gaylydreadful) discuss the most recent episode of HBO’s The Outsider, alternating between our respective sites — queerhorrormovies.com and gaylydreadful.com.

Episode 1.10 “Must/Can’t”: The group finds itself in a climactic showdown in their last-ditch, desperate attempt to root out El Coco.

Spoilers follow…
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Filed Under: The Outsider, TV Tagged With: Ben Mendelsohn, Bill Camp, cynthia erivo, finale, HBO, Julianne Nicholson, Marc Menchaca, Mare Winningham, Max Beesley, Paddy Considine, Richard Price, Season Finale, Yul Vazquez

[The Outsider recap w/t Gayly Dreadful] Holly Finally Joins The Group for An Explosive Reveal

February 10, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

Each week Joe (@bstolemyremote) and Terry (@gaylydreadful) discuss the most recent episode of HBO’s The Outsider, alternating between our respective sites — queerhorrormovies.com and gaylydreadful.com.

Episode 1.06 “The One About The Yiddish Vampire”: Holly presents her theory about the connection between two other child murders and the Frankie Peterson case; while Ralph remains skeptical, Yunis suggests they start looking into Claude, the last person to have contact with Terry.

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Filed Under: The Outsider, TV, TV - Current Coverage Tagged With: Ben Mendelsohn, Bill Camp, cynthia erivo, HBO, Jeremy Bobb, Julianne Nicholson, Karyn Kusama, Marc Menchaca, Paddy Considine, Ware Cunningham, Yul Vazquez

[The Outsider recap w/t Gayly Dreadful] The Latest Stephen King Adaptation Opens With Plenty of Mystery

January 13, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

Each week Joe (@bstolemyremote) and Terry (@gaylydreadful) discuss the most recent episode of HBO’s The Outsider, alternating between our respective sites — queerhorrormovies.com and gaylydreadful.com.

Episodes 1.01-1.02:

“Fish In A Barrel”: When the body of an 11-year-old boy is found in the Georgia woods, detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn) launches an investigation into the gruesome murder; eyewitnesses and physical evidence point to local teacher and baseball coach Terry Maitland (Jason Bateman).

“Roanoke”: Ralph admits to being baffled by conflicting physical evidence; an unexpected tragedy throws the investigation into a tailspin; Glory (Julianne Nicholson) tries to soothe her daughter Jessa (Scarlett Blum), who says she’s been visited by a strange man in her room at night.

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Filed Under: The Outsider, TV - Current Coverage Tagged With: Ben Mendelsohn, Bill Camp, HBO, Jason Bateman, Jeremy Bobb, Julianne Nicholson, Michael Esper, Paddy Constantine, Richard Price, Scarlett Blum, stephen king, Yul Vazquez

Damages review – 5×04: ‘I Love You, Mommy’

August 2, 2012 by Joe Lipsett

Courtesy of DirecTV

This week Damages is all about exploring the linkages between Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) and Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne). Or, more specifically, the ways in which Patty fears that Ellen is simply a younger version of her.

Let’s bitch it out… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Damages, TV Tagged With: Audience Network, Bill Camp, Glenn Close, John Hannah, Judd Hirsch, Michael Gaston, Rose Byrne, Ryan Phillippe, Tim Guinee, Zachary Booth

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I am a freelance film and television journalist based in Toronto, Canada.

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