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carmillavoiez
May 11, 20172 min read
Out, Natsuo Kirino, a review
Natsuo Kirino doesn't just write crime. She transports us to urban Japan where four working class women face off against a crime boss and...
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carmillavoiez
May 3, 20173 min read
American Gods, Starz, Episode 1
What can I say? This show is true to an amazing book by Neil Gaiman. Stylistically it's intense with blood splatter as a medium for great...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 30, 20172 min read
Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Haruki Murakami
I wish I could write books like Haruki Murakami, where the real and the unreal bleed into one another. The mundane seems extraordinary...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 28, 20174 min read
The Handmaid's Tale, Hulu, episodes 1 - 3
Bag of shite! I had such high hopes for Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale. I loved Margaret Atwood's book when I read it years ago. I must read...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 25, 20172 min read
Bates Motel, finale, Season 5 Episode 10
Dream a little dream of me. (Contains spoilers) It doesn't have to be over if you wish hard enough. Romero and Norman arrive at Norma's...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 24, 20174 min read
Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum, and the interpretation of texts
Foucault's Pendulum demonstrates the earth's rotation around a fixed point. From this premise Umberto Eco created an intricate novel,...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 23, 20173 min read
Bates Motel, Season 5, Episode 9, Visiting Hours
What I love most about this season is that we are not spoon fed information about Norman's perception vs reality. Instead we receive...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 23, 20174 min read
Bates Motel, Season 5, Episodes 7 & 8
We are galloping towards the end of this show, and A&E are doing an amazing job of hiding their final hand. Episode 7 Sam Loomis is dead...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 22, 20172 min read
The Rage of Cthulhu by Gary Fry, a review
The Rage of Cthulhu is published by Horrific Tales Publishing and was released on March 23rd 2017. The story begins well. In the first...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 20, 20173 min read
Bates Motel, Season 5, Episode 6
Marion Crane meet Norman Bates. This episode shows Norman at his most lucid. After his discussion with Dr Edwards and discoveries at...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 19, 20172 min read
iZombie, Season 3, Episode 3
Ravi, Ravi, Ravi, what's with all the toxic masculinity shit this season? One of the things I appreciated most about the first two...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 19, 20174 min read
Bates Motel, Season 5, Episode 5, Dreams Die First
Episode 5, “Dreams Die First”, is about learning painful truths. And Rihanna arrives! Bates Motel is no longer a prequel to Psycho. We...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 17, 20173 min read
Bates Motel, Season 5, Episode 4
“Hidden” deals with Norman trying to regain control over his life. This episode starts where the last one ended, with Chick, Norman and...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 16, 20173 min read
Bates Motel, Season 5, Episode 3
Norma is front and centre in this episode and we see the different aspects of the Norma/n dynamic at play. At first Caleb regains...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 16, 20174 min read
Bates Motel, Season 5, Episode 2
Norman visits Alex Romero in prison. Norma tells him it's stupid, and it probably is, but Norman wants to show Alex he's alive and well....
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carmillavoiez
Apr 15, 20173 min read
Bates Motel, Season 5, Episode 1
Season 5 kicks off 18 months after Norma's death. Romero is serving 5 years in County for the perjury charge. Norma's body is in a...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 13, 20175 min read
Bates Motel, Season 4, Episodes 9 & 10
Well, with another season still to go, I wasn't expecting that! Alex couldn't sleep last night. Norma wakes to find him drinking coffee...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 12, 20173 min read
iZombie season 3, episodes 1 and 2
Season 2 ended with a massacre and the revelation that [spoiler alert] Philmore Graves (Fill More Graves, get it?) CEO, Vivian Stoll, is...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 11, 20172 min read
Bates Motel, season 4, episode 8
Norman is struggling to see Norma as someone separate from himself. Contains spoilers. This powerful episode was written by Freddie...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 8, 20172 min read
Bates Motel, Season 4, Episode 7
Includes spoilers. Oh no! Norman's coming home. In the first scene we see the old pet dog taxidermy in Norman's room as Norma peers in....
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