We’re always on the hunt for awesome TV shows we should be watching. This guest Stuff You Should Be Watching is brought to us by Heather Morris! Thanks, Heather! Heather Morris is a cyborg librarian living in North Carolina. Her work has appeared in Shimmer, Strange Horizons, and Daily Science Fiction, among other places. She’s on Twitter @NotThatHeatherM and she blogs sporadically at thebastardtitle.wordpress.com. … While much ink has been justifiably been spilled about Hulu’s … Continue reading Stuff You Should Be Watching: Harlots →
So what happens when the first woman is called up to a Major League Baseball team? This is the story of Ginny Baker, a 23 year old phenom pitcher who is called up by the San Diego Padres as a starting pitcher. She’s good, she’s beautiful, and she’s got the expectations of millions of women and girls on her shoulders. In addition, this is the story of the team around her – Mike Lawson (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), … Continue reading Stuff You Should Be Watching: Pitch →
The Kettering Incident is an eight episode mini-series full of gothic creepiness and X-Files-y appeal available for binge watching on Amazon (it’s free with Prime!). It’s the perfect show to watch while basking in late-summer early-fall AC and knitting a bunch of Conversationalist hats by Plucky Knitter. Not that I did that (I totally did that). This mini series originally premiered in Australia on Foxtel. It’s set in Tasmania, in the beautiful, dark, primeval Kettering Forest. … Continue reading Stuff You Should Be Watching: The Kettering Incident →
The internet to me is like the Matrix to Neo. I am plugged in at all times. However, even if you concern yourself with the goings on of the internet only 10% of the time in the last two months, odds are you’ve seen something about Amy Schumer. Because that girl is killing it right now. Season four of Inside Amy Schumer premiered this week and you can catch it on Thursdays at 10pm EST. She already … Continue reading Stuff You Should Be Watching: Inside Amy Schumer →
Here in the US, we are at the end of the final season of Downton Abbey. We’ve been with the Crawleys and their staff for deaths, births, war, taxes, parties, weddings, and 13 years of the Dowager Countess’s acerbic wit. What a weekend, indeed. I can 1000000% say that I started watching Downton because someone talked about it on SBTB back during the first season, so thank you for that, whoever you are. (Sarah: You’re welcome!) This … Continue reading Farewell, Downton Abbey →
It shouldn’t be a big shock that The Great British Bake Off is a well-loved show around these parts. And you all know how I feel about historical cooking and social history in general. And you should have a pretty good idea about how I feel about generalized shenanigans. (Pro. Very pro.) Now, if you put these things together, what you get is The Supersizers Go, aka “Literal RHG bait as produced by the … Continue reading Stuff You Should Be Watching: The Supersizers Go →
Jessica Jones is the second Marvel tv show to be streamed on Netflix, the MCU’s second female-led property, and first superheroine-led property. Based on the Alias comics, this is the story of Jessica Jones- a woman with super strength, and she can jump really high (but not fly, per se). She lives in Hell’s Kitchen, parallel to Daredevil’s Matt Murdock, and runs a private investigation agency. It’s dark. It’s full of complicated people and complicated … Continue reading Stuff You Should Be Watching: Jessica Jones →
There are many issues that have come about in the recent glut (and let’s be honest, it’s getting to be a glut) of superhero-themed entertainment. A lot of it, especially in the DC side of the world, is in the realm of grimdark. Dark lighting, angsty, brooding heroes, lots of death, and precious little to smile about. It’s also a Super Sausage Fest. So when the trailer hit for Supergirl last spring, with bright colors … Continue reading Stuff You Should Be Watching: Supergirl →
We at the Pink Palace of Bitchery adore Miss Fisher’s Mysteries, an Australian series about a woman named Phryne Fisher who solves mysteries (always involving murder) with the help of her companion, Dot, and Inspector Jack Robinson. We wrote a post about how much we loved the show back when a flu-stricken SB Sarah discovered Seasons One and Two and promptly converted us all to Miss Fisher worship. We loved the feminist themes, Phryne’s acceptance … Continue reading Miss Fisher Season Three: Spoiler Party in the Comments! →
I almost never live-watch TV. I’ll DVR shows and watch entire seasons at a time, but I make a point of watching Major Crimes as soon as it comes on. This show sort of snuck into my favorites list and it’s been worming it’s way into my heart ever since. A spin-off of TNT’s The Closer, Major Crimes was more or less designed to wrap up some story lines after Kyra Sedgwick left. Instead it took off under … Continue reading Stuff You Should Be Watching: Major Crimes →
Sense 8 is a weird mess of a show that is notoriously slow to grab its viewers’ attention. Most people either love it or hate it by episode three or four. I was completely apathetic at the end of Episode 1 and fanatically obsessed by the end of Episode 2. What hooked me? The romances, and how the romances hook into the idea that people need to connect to other people in order to emotionally … Continue reading Sense8: Like Whoa, Love is Amazing, AMIRITE? →
