Cat Smith is the reigning Miss Nerdstiles, having inherited the crown from absolutely no one, because she made it up. She is an actor, a musician, a cosplayer since before they had a word for it, and a general nuisance (General Nuisance *salute*). She and her ukulele have charmed the collective socks off of LI Who and LI Geek, ReGeneration Who, WHOlanta, Potterverse, Coal Hill Con, Time Eddy, MISTI-Con, Hudson Valley Comic Con, Wicked Faire, SqueeCon, The Way Station, and The Pandorica Restaurant . She has written for "Outside In" and "Why I Geek" (among others), and you can find her music on bandcamp at https://missnerdstiles.bandcamp.com/album/who-riginals. Consider supporting her continuing adventures by becoming a patron at patreon.com/missnerdstiles
I watched Doogie Howser, MD as a kid when it was on the air, but to be honest, I hadn’t thought about it in years. I remembered enough to be in on the joke when How I Met Your Mother made a reference to it in a tag one time, but that was about it. […] More
I don’t know that I will wind up writing every week on the new episodes of Clarice. I don’t want to get caught up in a bunch of recap, and I don’t want to repeat myself too much. That said, so far I can’t shake the need to scream at anyone who will listen that […] More
Okay, before you read any further, here’s what I want you to do. Go to Twitter, and tweet Saturday Night Live, and ask them to have Sarah Paulson on to host. She’s a household name these days thanks to Ryan Murphy, it’s not that huge an ask. Go do this. I’ll wait. Okay? Thanks. I’m not […] More
Okay look, I want Hannibal S4 too. But I was a fan of the Harris books and the original Silence of the Lambs film long before Hannibal was a gleam in Bryan Fuller’s eye, and there’s no reason we couldn’t have both, right? And I think that’s the main hurdle CBS’s Clarice is going to […] More
It’s an absolute crime to me that Living Single doesn’t get more love than it does. You walk into Box Lunch, or one of those stores that capitalizes on TV nerd merchandise (I love those stores; they get SO much of my money at holidays and birthdays), and you find t-shirts, mugs, and hats bearing […] More
”We understand that some people don’t fully appreciate the benefit of unsolicited advice from actors. We do know that. And if HBO Max was willing to point a camera at the ten smartest people in America, we’d gladly clear the stage for them. But the camera is pointed at us. And we feel, at a […] More
I almost subtitled this article “A Study In Game Face”, because that’s the thing I love about it the most. Everyone talks about “The Supremes”, and while I love that one too (and its mind, and its shoes), I think “Requiem” is my favourite post-Sorkin era episode. It’s a tearjerker—beloved actor John Spencer had unexpectedly […] More
Xena: Warrior Princess was my first organized fandom as an adult, and it will always have a special place in my heart. Not Xena herself. She may have been the icon, but I was there for the supporting cast, as my reputation in the OG fandom as “Everybody’s Gabrielle” (typically, most of the people who […] More
I love Deadwood. It’s easily in my top five of shows that I rewatch over and over again. Top three, even. I’ve met some wonderful people through the fandom. And like with any fandom, while I’ve really connected with some fans, I’ve also met some people I just don’t relate to, even when all we […] More
Archie Bunker is not a role model. Nobody knew it more than Carroll O’Connor, who played the character from 1971–1983. A staunch liberal, one of the reasons O’Connor took the role when it was offered to him was that he thought it would be a challenge to play someone so very different than himself. Archie […] More
I’m not a Mulder/Scully shipper. I know that puts me in the minority. I watched The X-Files when it first aired, back when Chris Carter was swearing up, down, and sideways that his two lead characters would never, ever hook up. We’ve all seen Moonlighting, he said, crossing that line never works. We all know […] More
Will McAvoy is the character on Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom that won Jeff Daniels an Emmy Award in 2013, and it’s easy enough to see why. He’s a brilliantly written and complex character, and Daniels’ portrayal of him is just gorgeous. All that said—it’s May, and that makes it Mental Health Awareness Month, and it […] More
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