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  • Acting Is Hard

    In undergrad, I once took an acting class. I got a B+, which is not a great grade by my standards. Our grade was mainly based on two monologues. I did rather poorly on the first, from Neil Simon’s Chapter Two. However, I did so well on the second, from Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, that when we…

  • TV Episode Review: “Orphan Black” “Governed As It Were by Chance” (02.04, 2014)

    Helena came in, marching on a physically restrained Sarah baring a knife and covered in blood, a savior, an avenging guardian angel, and an angel of doom all at once. Sarah saw a dangerous, destructive force that she thought she had destroyed advancing on her evincing invincibility. And then, Helena did the one thing Sarah…

  • TV Episode Review: “Orphan Black” “Mingling Its Own Nature with It” (02.03, 2014)

    Relationships are breaking down everywhere in Orphan Black. None of the groups we had in place at the start of this episode are still in the same place and stable at the end. “We are your instruments in the war for creation.” The Proletheans’ new order, being led by the bizarre Henrik Johanssen, is summed…