“The Daemon Cages” is the best episode that His Dark Materials has aired so far and the hardest to swallow at the same time. It felt like the culmination of Lyra’s whirlwind adventure to the North with a dash of…
Fangirlish Best of 2019: Our Favorite TV Shows of 2019
There are so many different TV shows that premiere and continue throughout the whole year. They bring laughter, joy, sorrow, and tears. The really good ones draw you in and make you connect with what they are really about. They…
Fangirlish Best of 2019: TV Deaths We Wish We Could Take Back
Nothing is more gut wrenching that watching a beloved character die. It doesn’t even have to be someone you like. Maybe for some reason you just wished they lived or died a different way. There is a special someone on…
‘His Dark Materials’ 1×05 Review: “The Lost Boy”
If there’s anything that I know about His Dark Materials “The Lost Boy,” it’s that Will is Lizzie’s favorite character. Let me backtrack. When I first started reading His Dark Materials, there was a name that kept popping up with…
‘His Dark Materials’ 1×04 Review: An Abundance of Bears
His Dark Materials moves North, finally, as Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his first appearance as Lee Scoresby, Mrs. Coulter has trapped her former lover (who she still seems to have many unresolved issues with) Lord Asriel deep in the North, and…
‘His Dark Materials’ 1×03 Review: “The Spies”
His Dark Materials “The Spies” saw our Lyra growing up way to fast and Mrs. Coulter spiraling into a quiet and brutal anger that honestly is quite frightening and deadly. Combine that with a Gypsy community that is being persecuted…
‘Catherine the Great’ 1×04 Review: It’s Over
We have reached the conclusion of the Catherine the Great miniseries on HBO. I was left feeling a lot of similar things from the last three weeks, so let’s just get started with this weeks episode. THE END I am so happy…
‘His Dark Materials’ 1×02 Review: You Can Be Extraordinary
Watching “The Idea of North,” I’m reminded that His Dark Materials and I go way back. I read the books for the first time when I was a teenager, and spent many a day trying to make sense of the…
‘Catherine the Great’ 1×03 Review: Empress of Public Fights
Here we are again. Another week of pretty much straight relationship drama with a dash of history. Did I mention this is a HISTORICAL drama? Anyway, I found myself this week wanting to fast forward through some of this episode.…
‘His Dark Materials’ 1×01 Review: “Lyra’s Jordan”
His Dark Materials started it’s much anticipated journey in “Lyra’s Jordan” with an episode that set up the world, delivered on some iconic characters, and made us fall in love with Lyra Belacqua, the lead of it all that will…
