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Lawyer. Writer. Columnist. Geek. Eternal optimist. Fangirl since the dawn of time. Hates the color yellow, olives and cigarettes. Has a recurring nightmare where she’s forced to choose between sports and books. Falls in love with fictional characters.

‘Game of Thrones’ 8×03 Review: “The Battle of Winterfell”

ARYA FUCKING STARK. I almost feel like saying that’s it. That’s the review. What else can I say? What else needs to be said, really? Except, you know: Arya fucking Stark. We did it. And I say we because that…

‘Game of Thrones’ 8×02 Roundtable: “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”

Well, color me delighted, and shocked and utterly terrified. Because that was probably the most emotionally satisfying episode in the whole of Game of Thrones, and that doesn’t seem like it bodes well for the upcoming battle. But let’s not…

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Review: A Fitting End?

It’s hard to articulate the good and the parts of Avengers: Endgame without going into spoiler territory, but for all of you, I will try my very best. I apologize if my very best is a rambly mess of feelings,…

‘Cloak and Dagger’ 2×05 Review: “Alignment Chart”

Wow, Cloak and Dagger. Wow. You’re not kidding around this season, are you? Because that ending was both amazing and heartbreaking. You came straight for our heart and left us devastated. Thank God this isn’t the season finale or anything close…

The Ship Debate: The Hunger Games Edition

To ship or not to ship. That’s a debate we’ve had for many years, about many shows, many couples. And even though we here at Fangirlish agree on many things, we don’t agree on everything, and one of the things…

‘Game of Thrones’ 8×02 Review: A Tale of Three Love Stories

Winter is here, and with it comes the army of the dead, we only have four more episodes left of Game of Thrones, and I can  – and should – legitimately spend every single second of this review talking about…

‘Game of Thrones’ 8×01 Roundtable: “Winterfell”

Winter is here at last. At least, the metaphorical winter, aka the last season of Game of Thrones, and, of course, with it being the final season, we couldn’t stop at a weekly review, because there’s just so much to…

‘Roswell, New Mexico’: 2 Moments We’re Still Talking About From “Creep”

We’ve given up. We’re never going to go an episode of Roswell, New Mexico without ending up a puddle of feels, and frankly, we don’t want to. We’re here for all of it, for the love and the hate and…

My Existence Doesn’t Require Subtitles

Representation is a funny, beautiful thing, and it is, above all things, a complex thing. Representation doesn’t just mean characters that look like you going through situations that you are familiar with, it can also, in a way that TV…

‘Game of Thrones’ 8×01 Review: The True Meaning of Family

It’s hard to believe we’re finally here. We’ve been waiting for so long to see these moments, there’s so much hope and fear and anticipation behind every reunion, every piece of the story unfolding the way seasons and seasons and…

‘Whiskey Cavalier’ 1×07 Review: With a Little Help From My Friends

One of the easiest things to criticize on a new show, especially a team-centered one, is balance. Usually, balance is nonexistent, a nice possibility for an uncertain future instead of anything remotely resembling what the show is actually doing, or…

‘Roswell, New Mexico’ 1×10 Roundtable: “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”

Roswell, New Mexico continues that be that show that gives us everything other shows on TV are not giving us, and does it without sacrificing storytelling or characterization, and we gotta say, we’re more and more in love with every…

13 Couples We Wish Had Happened

We all have them, those couples we wish a show had given us, the OTPs that didn’t end up happening. They don’t even have to be couples the show was actually hinting at, but just two people we saw together…

Is Anyone Going to Survive on ‘Game of Thrones’?

It really is brilliant promo, HBO, I’ll give you that. Not everyone can make it out of Season 8 of Game of Thrones live, we’ve known that for a while, so there’s bound to be disappointment. BUT, if you make…

‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Roundtable: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells This Story?

The final season of Game of Thrones is upon us. Winter is finally really and truly here, and everything is on the line. And boy, that’s got us both really, really excited to see the conclusion of a saga we’ve…

We Rate the ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Posters by Pain-Level

Look, the Avengers: Endgame posters killed us. Dead, bye, gone, but not like dusted gone, like ghosts gone, and these are our ghosts speaking. But not all of them killed us the same way, we’ll admit. We LOVE SOME PEOPLE…

My First Sports Crush: Chipper Jones

This is an entry in Fangirlish’s What Sports Mean To Me series, where our writers discuss memorable sports moments and how sports have impacted their lives. It’s likely anyone that knows me knows the answer to this question. I was never one…

‘Whiskey Cavalier’ 1×05 Review: You and Me, We Save The World

What even is this show? I’m sitting here thinking about it, and I still have trouble making sense of it. Maybe it’s because TV has set me up with unrealistic expectations for everything, from body image to the pacing of…

‘Captain Marvel’ Roundtable: Higher, Further, Faster

There was something particularly striking about watching Captain Marvel, something inspiring, something powerful. In lieu of a review, we thought we’d allow our writers to give their opinion on this film, what it feels like to see someone like Carol…

NCISLA: A Densi Celebration

We haven’t been shy about how excited we are that Kensi and Deeks are finally getting married on NCIS: Los Angeles. I mean, we’ve only been waiting for this since somewhere around the end of season 3, right? (One might…

‘Roswell, New Mexico’ 5 Things We Can’t Stop Talking About From Barely Breathing

Is there ever a week where Roswell, New Mexico doesn’t give us a list of things we’re still talking about days after? Is there ever a week when the show doesn’t make us run through the gamut of emotions? For…