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The Answer at the Mystery’s End: A Goodbye to the CW’s Nancy Drew
Goodbyes are never easy. Especially when it feels they come too soon.
This year has been a rough one for those of us that love TV, with so many shows being canceled or airing their (sometimes unexpected) final season, and even a beloved network, one that allowed the beginning of many writer’s careers, is on its last legs.
Mind Flayers and Mind Lairs: A Stranger Things Reflective on Mental Health
If you’re like Max (or me), you’ve been blasting “Running Up That Hill” by Kate Bush on repeat throughout the past month.
When the much anticipated Season 4 of Stranger Things dropped at the end of May, I was expecting a fair amount of excitement after being reunited with the kids of Hawkins, a heaping dose of jump scares and squelching horror as the new villain was introduced, and a barrage of nostalgia for the 80’s (even though I was born in the 90’s).
What I was not expecting, however, especially after the fairly light and colorful Season 3 (miss you, Starcourt Mall), was for this season’s story to revolve so heavily around navigating trauma and the power of the memory.
When the Magician Stops Believing in Magic
A magician never reveals their secrets.
You’ve all heard the phrase.
A professional and seasoned magician performs some impossible and mysterious act on-stage in front of a stunned audience. You sit there in awe thinking to yourself, “How on earth did they do that?” After the show the magician comes to the front of the house for a few moments to chat with fans and you decide to ask the one question you’ve been dying to know the whole night, already guessing the answer you’ll probably receive, but you want to try anyway.
“How’d you do it?”