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
Elsa Mars isn’t a villain…except when she is. American Horror Story: Freak Show was my other favourite season. Who am I kidding? For me, that show was two seasons long, and they were this one and Asylum. Much as I love Freak Show, it had more than its share of flaws and a lot of […] More
Most avid television viewers can rattle off a list of their favorite shows. Many of us can take that list and narrow it down to a few classic shows that will stand the test of time to us. Then, there’s that next layer of obsessives who take things a little bit further and examine their […] More
“There’s nothing good on Netflix anymore.” That’s one of the first lines in S4E1 of One Day at a Time, and it’s shade of the best kind. For reasons that still baffle me and the rest of the show’s loving fanbase, Netflix cancelled its reboot of the 1975 Norman Lear sitcom after a mere three […] More
I’m pretty sure that the trend of the musical episode in modern television actually started with Chicago Hope. You don’t have Mandy Patinkin (or at least, you didn’t then) as one of your male leads without going out of your way to find excuses to have him sing. Nobody seems to remember that one, though. […] More
Grace and Frankie is one of the most important shows running today. The Netflix comedy, which stars the septuagenarian quartet of Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston, recently dropped its sixth season. Here’s the premise: Robert (Sheen) and Sol (Waterston) are longtime law partners and besties. Over the course of many years, […] More
Twas the night before Christmas, and there on my screen Was that HBO series, that stars Dafne Keene. His Dark Materials Season 1, wow, what a ride In a holy war, who knows which one’s the right side? Young Lyra’s gone North, her father to find Though at first glance, the guy’s gone A […] More
Not bothering to get too creative with the episode titles for His Dark Materials, are they? That’s okay, the bear rumble was supposed to be cool enough to make up for the title. And it was, well…a little grizzly (get it?). But seriously, folks. Last week left us with Lyra mid-plummet after an aerial attack […] More
Two things you need to know right off the bat—I resisted watching The West Wing for a long time, and I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2003. I’m fine. We found it really early, and great strides have been made with regard to MS since it was that big scarey disease we did walk-a-thons […] More
In last week’s His Dark Materials, Lyra had gotten to Bolvangar ahead of the rest of her posse. She wasn’t happy about it, having been abducted (again!) from the Gyptian camp in the middle of the night. She got the one-two punch of realizing where she was, and that this was the place where Billy […] More
There are three episodes left in this season of HBO’s His Dark Materials, and—I don’t know how else to say it—shit is getting real. His Dark Materials S1E5 is called “The Lost Boy,” and if the previous four (and really, the top half of this one) had felt a little more expository than we might […] More
“Okay, so we’re four episodes in, and despite having promoted the heck out of Lin-Manuel Miranda as one of our leads, we have yet to see him, so let’s make sure we give him one of the best hero entrances ever, plus an outfit that everyone is going to want to cosplay, and what the […] More
NBC’s Hannibal broke all my rules. Never mind that it still staggers me that this show survived for three seasons on network television. Never mind that I’m a bit of a wuss when it comes to violence involving children or animals, and this has both. Never mind that I am ridiculously familiar with the source […] More
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