The Consulting Analyst – Do You Love Your Fiancee?
The intro is here. Sometimes you just have to sit back and recognize that the Count is exceptionally gifted at trolling.
Gravity Falls Rewatch: Little Dipper
But where did the brains come from
Morph Club – The Best Kind of Nostalgia
No series taught me more, at the tender age of nine, about war, death, trauma, loss, and excruciating body horror than Animorphs. I can comfortably say that KA Applegate’s children’s novels are irrevocably stamped all over my tastes as an adult (frankly it’s a short skip and a […]
The Consulting Analyst – A Mother’s Secrets
The intro is here. YOU MEAN MY PARENTS HAD LIVES BEFORE ME?
Gravity Falls Rewatch: Fight Fighters
Dear PPG 2016, this is how you do references.
Five Forgotten Gems – Lives of Quiet Desperation
Last week we talked about The Witch, a decidedly strange and mostly effective film that inhabits that wonderful horror subgenre known as “everything’s a metaphor.” But as much as that film defied analysis by modern standards, against all odds demanding to be taken by its own internal logic, […]
The Consulting Analyst – 5/22, Stormy
The intro is here. AND NOW, REALLY GOOD EXPOSITION.
Gravity Falls Rewatch: The Time Traveler’s Pig
I bet the Tunnel of Love and Corndogs is a slow ride, with all those arterial clogs.
The Witch – Horror as Anthropology
Horror is the most of-the-moment genre out there: by its nature it makes itself a time capsule, simultaneously responding to gut-level fears in its surrounding culture and almost always reinforcing an Other vs. status quo arrangement. You can tell a culture’s history in no small part by the […]
The Consulting Analyst – An Introduction to The Vampire Chronicles
Longtime readers will know that it’s traditional for this blog to run two Consulting Analyst series at a time – it provides a little variety for readers who maybe aren’t into the main series going on, and it keeps yours truly from hitting the burnout train and thus […]
Fashionable Tinfoil Accessories 