If You Can’t Beat ‘Em Join ‘Em – Contents May Vary

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2024 Year in Review Part 5: Fandom and Personal Life

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2024 Year in Review Part 4: Cultural Experiences and Podcasts

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2024 Year in Review Part 3: Television

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2024 Year in Review Part 2: Movies

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2024 Year in Review Part 1: Background, Stats, and Books

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Doctor Who 2024 Christmas Special Review: “Joy to the World”

posters for 'We Are', 'Not Me', 'Quantum Leap' (1989 version), 'The X-Files', 'The Lone Gunmen', and 'The Owl House'. Text below reads 'Post Election Binge Watch'

What We’re Watching in This Post-Election Hellscape

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LA Comic Con 2024 interview: Only Murders in the Building’s Shelly Westerman and Payton Koch

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LA Comic Con 2024 Interview: Movement Performers and the Video Game Strike

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Agatha All Along 1×7 & 1×8 Review: “Follow Me My Friend / To Glory at the End” and “Maiden Mother Crone”

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LA Comic Con: Interview with Chris Heintz with One More Game

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LA Comic Con 2024: Headliners and Pop Culture Galore

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Agatha All Along 1×6 & 1×7 Review: “Familiar by Thy Side” and “Death’s Hand in Mine”

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Interview with ‘HYSTERIA!’ Writers Matthew Scott Kane and David A. Goodman

Kenneth Trujillo (as Richard) in a trance as The Crone touches his face.

‘I Will Never Leave You Alone’ is Intensely Traumatic Horror – Movie Review

Theatre Review: WTF???

These two absurdist pieces definitely fit the bill of ‘fringe’.

July 31, 2010December 25, 2021 Angie Fiedler Sutton review