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Blue Blood and the 99 Percent: La Révolution on Netflix

La Révolution is a strange beast. It’s French historical horror, and, while I’m not usually one for horror, it’s definitely my sort of show. It’s filled with violent class strife, and women striving to attain and (and maintain) power. It’s clogged with family secrets, and family lies corrode its halls. It’s exciting, generally. It’s violent as hell, blood arcing across the snow, staining walls, spattering … Continue reading Blue Blood and the 99 Percent: La Révolution on Netflix

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Wolves, Gods, and Betrayal: Barbarians on Netflix

Sometimes Netflix recommends things that are “soapy and sentimental” to me, and I have no idea why they’d do so. Other times they recommend shows that are violent and gritty and filled with historical battle scenes, and I binge them. The German Netflix show Barbarians, in other words, might as well have been created for me: it’s dark and gritty and violent and filled with … Continue reading Wolves, Gods, and Betrayal: Barbarians on Netflix

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Barkskins on Hulu: The Turtle King

Everything is awful today (except for the snow showers earlier, I liked those), so I finished up episode two of Barkskins: “The Turtle King.” It’s a great episode! There’s a lot that felt really accurate to me, and I truly appreciated that the chracters stayed dirty once they got dirty—or they were just grubby all the time. (That works, too.) I still think Goames is … Continue reading Barkskins on Hulu: The Turtle King

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Barkskins on Hulu: New France

I finally started watching the television adaption of Annie Proulx’s eponymous novel, Barkskins, yesterday, and I am really not sure why on earth I waited this long to do so. It’s pretty obviously my sort of content. I should start this with an acknowledgement: I haven’t read the source material! So I have no clue how closely this adaption (originally on National Geographic, who’d have … Continue reading Barkskins on Hulu: New France

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Autumn de Wilde’s Emma.

Autumn de Wilde’s Emma is a delight and a joy, which is an odd way to start what is not-exactly-a-review. But it is so beautifully shot, so beautifully staged, so exquisitely acted and directed, that for me there’s not really another launch point into this exploration of cinematography and class and the female gaze. Emma is beautiful, from its hushed beginnings in a greenhouse as … Continue reading Autumn de Wilde’s Emma.

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Greta Gerwig’s Little Women

I’ll start this with a confession: while I read Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women—I read it a lot, actually—it never spoke to me as much as Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy series. (I think that the urban element of Betsy-Tacy made it perfect for me, an urban child.) I’m a white woman who read Little Women, perforce, but am not Little Women‘s ideal audience: that would … Continue reading Greta Gerwig’s Little Women

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Este amoroso tormento: Juana Inés on Netflix

Our Juana Inés has grown up. She’s an adult, intelligent, moderately mature, almost ruthless in her attempts to scale walls denied her as a religious woman yet encouraged among religious men. And it’s hella exciting to see our Juana Inés all grown up, in this episode where she beings to learn about Este amoroso tormento, pulled straight from a poem of the same first lines. … Continue reading Este amoroso tormento: Juana Inés on Netflix

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To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (the On-Screen One)

Today in Caitlin Continues to Avoid Juana Inés, I watched Netflix’s adaption of Jenny Han‘s To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before—and, to my surprise, I love it so much. It’s the best thing ever! Or at least the best teenage rom-com ever. (And now I can say I’ve finally watched it, since I neither read it nor watched it before this booklist!) I empathize … Continue reading To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (the On-Screen One)

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Lágrimas Negras de mi Pluma: Juana Inés on Netflix

The full line is lágrimas negras de mi pluma triste,1 and, if you ask me, that would have been a better title than Lágrimas Negras de mi Pluma, carrying as it does the full gravitas both of the line and of the world, disintegrating. And Sor Juana’s world does its share of disintegration in this episode. It has taken me longer by far to return to … Continue reading Lágrimas Negras de mi Pluma: Juana Inés on Netflix

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Para el alma no hay encierro: Juana Inés on Netflix

It’s taken me a bit to return to Juana Inés, mainly because I have been running largely on rage and when that is the case I turn, very decidedly, to The Last Kingdom and The Musketeers and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and other violent period dramas (with an occasional helping of Wynonna Earp or Buffy the Vampire Slayer), because I am nowhere near as nice a person as folks seem to … Continue reading Para el alma no hay encierro: Juana Inés on Netflix

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