Camellia Peebles
Camellia Peebles is a writer, visual artist, and cultural critic teaching in Seoul. Her fiction appears in Maudlin House and Expat Press, and Plague Circus Press with work forthcoming in BULL Lit Mag and Mythic Picnic. She writes about performance, mythology, and the systems underneath the frame.
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in SeasonsThe Fall Season 3: A Man of Double Deed, and the Refusal to Explain Paul Spector
The final season of The Fall opens with everyone trying to keep a monster alive. In Season 2 Paul Spector had been shot, and the show spends its first hour of Season 3 on the grim irony of a hospital fighting to save the man it would be simpler to let die, doctors muttering about […] More
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The Wound Under the Crown: Three Targaryens Who Rule for the Wrong Reasons
The following examination of the Targaryens at the center of House of the Dragon contains some spoilers from the show’s first three seasons There is a legend in Westeros that the Iron Throne cuts the rulers who are not worthy of it. Forged from the swords of Aegon’s conquered enemies, it is said to reject […] More
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Pushing Daisies: A Fairy Tale About Not Being Able To Touch
At this moment, the critic was old enough to know better, plus 32 weeks, one day, two hours and 28 minutes old, and she was pressing play on a show about a man who can raise the dead with a touch but cannot touch the woman he loves. This is how Pushing Daisies narrates everything, […] More
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You Should Have Ended With Love Quinn
The best character You ever produced holds up a peach and asks a man if it looks like a butt. This is how Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) enters the show, and it is worth pausing on, because it is the opposite of how every other woman enters Joe Goldberg’s orbit. The others are seen. Joe […] More
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The Fixation: The Fall Season 2
Somewhere in the second season of The Fall, Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) sleeps with Detective Tom Anderson (Colin Morgan) because he looks like the man she is hunting. She admits it without flinching. He does remind her of Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan), they are a similar age, and so she took him to bed, but […] More
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Tales from the Crypt: The Horror Classic That Still Haunts
I was eight years old the first time I walked into the Cryptkeeper’s mansion, and I have been going back ever since. The opening was always the same. The camera drifts through the gate, down the path, into the house, and we never go anywhere but toward him. We do not go upstairs. We do […] More
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Run It: Stray Kids Intend to Take Over the World
I have watched Stray Kids ATE times now, and every time I have left with the specific ache of having been somewhere that mattered. The second was at their Inkigayo appearance during the “Lose My Breath” era. The only time they preformed the song live. (My scream in pure silence for member Changbin was later, […] More
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The Fall Season 1 Is Not a Hunt. It’s a Mirror.
She is in her room. He is in Annie Brawley’s house, photographing himself in the bathroom mirror while the woman who lives there has no idea he is in her house. The show cuts between the two of them, Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) at rest in her own private space, and Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) […] More
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Euphoria Season 3 and the Death of Neon-Glitter
The following review contains spoilers for Euphoria Season 3, and the entirety of the series Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) clicks his golden rings together when he wants you to be afraid. It is his tell, his signature, the little metallic click that lands before the threat does, and the first time I saw it I understood […] More
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BTS at Allegiant Las Vegas and ARMY Devotion
I lost it during “Attack on Bangtan.” Over 60,000 people at Allegiant Stadium, night three of the Las Vegas run, and the moment the opening hit I stopped being a person with opinions about music and became a body screaming in the dark. Somewhere in there, after a Jungkook moment that did not deserve what […] More
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The Mask and the Wink: Inside the Making of Lord of the Flies
Jack Thorne, the writer of BBC’s Lord of the Flies (2026), says in the series’ behind the scenes documentary that you find your character, and you are taken on a journey with your character. He says this with the quiet conviction of a man who found his—Simon, the gentle prophet, the boy whose death broke his […] More
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Jacks Are Wild in Lord of the Flies (2026)
There is a moment in Lord of the Flies (2026) where Jack Merridew’s face is half-covered in war paint, while the other half is still a child’s, and if that image doesn’t win Lox Pratt an Emmy then the Television Academy should be dissolved and rebuilt from scratch by Nina Gold personally. Child actors in […] More
