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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.

Caroline Williams talks horror films, Sharknado 4 and being a final girl

Caroline Williams is the one who survives. Her face might look familiar – she played Vanita ‘Stretch’ Brock in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and she’s made a career out making it to the end of scary movies, but the conversation…

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children: 5 Things we Hope to See at SDCC

We loved the books – and yes, we recognize this is an adaptation, it doesn’t have to be the same thing, but still, we can’t’ help but be excited at the fact that Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is…

5 Reasons Why Stormpilot Should be Crowned ‘Ship of The Year’

The Fandom Awards are back, and with them comes the most cut-throat competition of them all: Ship of the Year. And here we are, to break down the nominees and give you reasons why each of them should win the…

MTV Fandom Awards Preview: Best Revival Fandom of the Year

The MTV Fandom Awards are back this year, just in time for San Diego Comic-Con, and with the categories already unveiled, we’re here to discuss who should win each category, who’s going to win, and more importantly, who shouldn’t win.…

Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously Review

To watch Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously is to fall in love with Neil Gaiman, be it for the first time, for the eleventh, or for the fortieth. Mostly because to know Neil Gaiman is to love him, but also because…

Powerless: 5 Questions We Want Answered at SDCC

Female superhero shows are a dime a dozen – hello Supergirl – so you can imagine our excitement at hearing that one of our favorite actresses, Vanessa Hudgens, would be staring in an NBC work-place comedy set in the DC…

Details on Once Upon A Time’s SDCC Panel

Once Upon A Time is coming to San Diego Comic-Con, and we’ve got the panel details for you right here. Time: 10:00-10:45 a.m. Place: Ballroom 20. Autographs: Yes, from 11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. at the ABC Booth on the Convention Center Floor,…

Once Upon A Time: Hook, Regina and the hero’s journey

There is no right or wrong way to become a hero. There’s only the choice. Pretty words, I know. Perhaps we shouldn’t really be talking about the hero’s journey as much as we should be talking about what comes before…

Once Upon A Time: Long Live The Queen

Long Live The Queen. Once Upon A Time has unveiled it’s first key art for Season Six, and Regina is front an center this time – or is that the Evil Queen? The poster, revealed to Entertainment Weekly as a Comic-Con…

Game of Thrones set to premiere later in 2017

April is the month of Game of Thrones – that has been the case in four of the show’s six seasons (and one of them premiered the last day of March) – no longer. That’s right, today David Benioff and Dan Weiss,…

Bones: 5 Questions We Want Answered at SDCC

Ah, Bones. We don’t want to bid you farewell, and yet we shall. At least, though, you’ll get to go out on your own terms. We’ll get to enjoy your swan song. This is the end, yes, but that doesn’t…

Game of Thrones 6×10 Roundtable ‘The Winds of Winter’

And that’s it …Game of Thrones season 6 has come to a close, and what an ending that was. What a season that was. It had everything, heartbreaking deaths, unexpected returns, expected returns, breakout characters, and, of course, the revelation…

Books that made me who I am

I grew up on books. Books raised me. Or, my parents raised me, but they did so with the help of a lot of books. There was never a forbidden topic in my house when I was growing up, nor…

Game of Thrones: 5 Questions We Want Answered at SDCC

Season six of Game of Thrones is in the books (we miss you already!), and with San Diego Comic-Con fast approaching it’s time to turn our attention to the next (and hopefully not last) season of the HBO drama. And,…

Once Upon A Time: Spoiler Roundup!

The news just keep on coming! Time for a spoiler roundup. First there was the news that Once Upon A Time was casting for Sinbad and Scheherazade, and the title for the first episode, and now, there’s more! TVLine is reporting that…

ABC Unveils Fall 2016 Premiere Dates

Good news – it’s now possible to make fall TV plans. ABC, the only networked who, to this date, had not announced their Fall Premiere dates, has now done so. The first show to premiere will be Dancing with the…

This week in Sports: Goodbye, Copa America!

Hello there! We like a little bit of everything here in Fangirlish, and since we’re also covering sports now, we’ll be doing a sort of recap at the end of the week of the notable sports stories of the past…

Outlander 2×12 Review: The Hail Mary

Oh, Outlander. How you love to break our hearts in different ways. In Season One you were swift, brutal and prolonged and we felt the pain, oh, we felt it. We felt it again and again and again. We lived…

Once Upon A Time: Spoilers roundup!

Don’t you love this time of the year? Spoilers left and right! First, TVLine reported that among the inhabitants of the Land of Untold Stories that Mr. Hyde had transported to Storybrooke per his deal with Rumplestiltskin, we’d find Sinbad…

Game of Thrones 6×09 Roundtable ‘Battle of the Bastards’

So, the battle of the bastards happened. And it was nerve-wracking and anxiety inducing and altogether one of the best episodes of television we have seen in a very long time. And we’re here to break it down for you…

Interview with Wynonna Earp’s Katherine Barrell

For someone playing a character who finds herself in the midst of a cultural phenomenon just by existing, Katherine Barrell seems to be taking it all pretty well. Maybe it’s because she’s seen the good side of the fandom – the…