This Cosima-focussed episode reveals a little more about Westmoreland and the island, but not much more. Meanwhile, Sarah, Siobhan, and Kira engage in some plotting and family bonding, and a monster is in the house.
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12 Monkeys Discussion: “Nurture”
Jennifer Goines is on-point in her 50s’ garb, Railly bonds with her mother (Kristin Booth), and Cole and Railly run from their former allies.
Joan Lee, R.I.P.
Joan Lee, wife of Marvel mastermind Stan Lee, has died at 93.
Comic Review: Batman/Elmer Fudd #1
Sometimes the wain comes down so hawrd you fowrget you’ve ever been dwy. I twy to see it, out there in the past or in the future wainbows waiting.
Going into Powrky’s that day, I twy my best to wemember. I weawy do.
Things wewrn’t awways this way. They won’t awways be this way.
The most-talked about comic of the season pits the Dark Knight against a cewtain speech-impediment-afflicted hunter, in the shadows of a more-insane-than-usual version of Gotham City.
Orphan Black Review: “Let the Children and Childbearers Toil”
We’re a little late for this week’s Orphan Black, which broadcast on Canada Day.
Several characters return (along with the oddball, allusive title) as the clones probe more deeply into the mystery behind Neolution and P.T. Westmoreland.
12 Monkeys Review: “Nature”
We continue with our episode-by-episode review of Season Three.
After last episode’s heist romp, 12 Monkeys returns to its regularly-scheduled dark and weird.
A very special guest star does not want to save the clock tower.
The Handmaid’s Tale Review: “Night”
The Hand-maid’s Tale ends its first season with rays of hope. Moira arrives in Canada, and the Handmaids engage in an act of defiance.
We see the novel’s actual conclusion, but not its famous epilogue.
Orphan Black Review: “Beneath Her Heart”
This week’s Allison-centered ep shows us past and present in Bailey Downs, as the Hendrixes’ histories catch up with them, and Kira learns more about herself.
12 Monkeys Review: “Causality”
“You’ve got our money, pal. Have your existential crisis somewhere else.”
–Leland Goines
12 Monkeys follows its serious developments with a heist episode that tries for a lighter tone.
Summer Reading
With summer 2017 officially here, we have six mini-reviews of six books, old and new, classic and recent, science fiction and science fact, offered for seasonal reading: Dandelion Wine (1957), Girlfriend in a Coma (1998), Rocket Boys (1998), A Tale for the Time Being (2013), Hidden Figures (2016), and The Fifth Heart (2015).
Enjoy! And don’t forget your own recommendations.