My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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My take: people complaining that a show having an afterlife sequence when the whole thing was one extended religious allegory pretty much right from the beginning are a bit odd. (Also, despite what people saying: afterlife sequence not explicitly Christian, nor even vaguely so. See Philip Pullman for alternate illustration of the concept of dead […]

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Some stupid human has gone and injured themselves on a mountain! Whatever will they do? Perhaps they need the aid of a St. Bernard! No, of course they don’t need no crap-ass St. Bernard. St. Bernards are for suckers. If you’re smart, you get the help of Rex the motherfucking Wonder Dog. BONUS: Rex demonstrates […]

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…is not nearly as bad as the reviews would have you believe, especially when you take into account that seemingly half of all people reviewing this movie do so in the following manner: “where is the singing and the archery versus knights and where are the Merry Men and why isn’t everybody an anthropomorphized fox […]

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Every season I consider doing recap/discussion posts for Survivor and every season I never quite get around to it, mostly because most seasons start out slow with a bunch of people you don’t really know mostly playing blind – which is amusing, but the real meat in watching a season of Survivor arises in the […]

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The Sorcerer Supreme is of course tasked with the defense of this reality from all others. But the thing about defense, as any diplomat can tell you, is that there’s multiple ways to do it. A massive display of might is always a good option A, but there will always be those too cocky, too […]

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If I were Barack Obama, and I wanted to convince 73-year-old Anthony Kennedy that, were he to step down, his replacement would be someone similarly moderate in judicial style – well, Obama’s Supreme Court picks make a lot more sense in that regard, don’t they? Granted, it’s probably a moot point until Obama’s possible second […]

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So Barack Obama has gone and nominated Elena Kagan as his next Supreme Court pick, which should surprise absolutely nobody; she was always going the frontrunner for the job once she got some experience in a major government position under her belt first, which was why Sotomayor got nominated last year instead of Kagan – […]

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Darren Kramble writes to ask: As a Canadian ex-pat, I know that the Tories currently have a minority government, but I have no idea how that is going. Anyway, I live in the UK, and the country seems to be freaking out at our hung parliament, as if it is the end of the political […]

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