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Announcing SD Media Digest

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The Outer Limits: S1E09 "Corpus Earthling"

The new The Outer Limits review is up at The Avocado. This week, we’re looking at “Corpus Earthling.” This is the first stereotypical black and white sci-fi episode in all its silly glory. Read the full article at The Avocado [https://the-avocado.org/2021/03/31/the-outer-limits-s1e09-corpus-earthlin

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The Outer Limits: S1E08 "The Human Factor"

We’re back with the newest The Outer Limits recap over at The Avocado. Today’s focus is “The Human Factor,” the first body swapping narrative of the series. There are some great ideas in play, but ideas alone can’t always carry a sci-fi story to the end. Read

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The Outer Limits: S1E07 "O.B.I.T."

The new The Outer Limits article is up at The Avocado. This time, we’re exploring “O.B.I.T.,” a dystopian think piece about a computer that can monitor every scientist who works for the Defense Department within a 500 mile area. Read the full article at The Avocado.

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The Outer Limits: S1E06 "The Man Who Was Never Born"

The Outer Limits series continues at The Avocado with “The Man Who Was Never Born.” This episode just felt so familiar to me until I did a little digging afterwards. Turns out it is “inspired” by Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast. Read the full review at The Avocado.

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The Outer Limits: S1E05 "The Sixth Finger"

This week, we take a look at The Outer Limits episode “The Sixth Finger.” This is a hard sci-fi narrative about genetic research used to unlock the genes with the potential to evolve humankind thousands of years into the future. Read the full article at The Avocado [https://the-avocado.org/2021/02/2

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No Escape Room Review (Film, 2018)

No Escape Room is a made for TV movie playing on the escape room trends in the context of a haunted house story.

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The Outer Limits: S1E02 "The Man with the Power"

Today’s new article brings us to a proto-telekinesis experiment gone wrong science fiction story from The Outer Limits. These rules weren’t as established as “international espionage with technology” or “aliens among us,” so the results don’t quite hit the highs of the rest of the series so

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The Outer Limits: S1E03 "The Architects of Fear"

The new article is up at The Avocado. This time, we’re looking at the Cold War political theatre of “The Architects of Fear.” A group of scientists decide to stage an international crisis, an alien invasion, to unite the warring nations of the world against a common enemy. The alien will be one of t

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The 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards Nominations

The 78th Annual Golden Globe Award nominations were released yesterday with plenty of surprises in film and television.

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The Outer Limits: S1E02 “The Hundred Days of the Dragon”

The Outer Limits series continues at The Avocado with “The Hundred Days of the Dragon.” I want to be able to say more about the episode, but the blatant racism really gets in my way. Everything I discuss in detail happens in the first 15 minutes of the episode; the rest is tainted by the increasing

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The Outer Limits: S1E01 "The Galaxy Being"

Today is the debut of the new series at The Avocado. We’re going to review the entirety of The Outer Limits, episode by episode. I’m excited to take this one on. I’m more familiar with the 90s reboot of the series than the original, and any excuse to go in on dark sci-fi is a good excuse for me. Up

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Talentless Nana Review (TV Series, 2020)

Talentless Nana is a horror anime about a group of children tasked with developing their newfound superpowers to defeat the Enemies of Humanity and save the world. Then the series changes entirely after the first 20 minutes of the first episode to something far more disturbing.

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Ranking Terror Episode 1: Masters of Horror/Fear Itself

Welcome to Ranking Terror, a new monthly webseries where we analyze and rank horror series or collections from best to work through a critical lens.

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The Best Masters of Horror and Fear Itself Episodes

Now that I’ve officially reached the end of my Masters of Horror [https://the-avocado.org/tag/masters-of-horror/] and Fear Itself [https://the-avocado.org/tag/fear-itself/] recap/review series at The Avocado, I want to dig a little further into the series as a whole. I don’t mean the drama surroundi

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Fear Itself: S1E13 "The Circle"

After 39 episodes and 39 weeks, we’ve reached the end of our Masters of Horror and Fear Itself series at The Avocado. It’s a bittersweet feeling to let go of this show, as that original season of Masters of Horror really felt like it could have run for years like The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limit

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Fear Itself: S1E12 "Echoes"

We’re almost at the end of the Masters of Horror/Fear Itself review series at The Avocado. Today’s focus is the penultimate episode “Echoes” from director Rupert Wainwright and screenwriter Sean Hood. Would it shock you to find out that I really liked a time-skipping horror story with similar storyt

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Fear Itself: S1E11 "The Spirit Box"

The new Fear Itself review is up at The Avocado. This week’s topic is Rob Schmidt’s The Spirit Box. This paranormal thriller is Schmidt’s second entry in the series after the Masters of Horror episode Right to Die. Two teenage girls accidentally uncover a murder while holding a séance on Halloween n

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Fear Itself: S1E10 "Chance"

The new Fear Itself review is up at The Avocado. This week, we’re looking at John Dahl’s thriller episode Chance. A man named Chance accidentally releases his identical but opposite doppelganger into the world after a deal at an antiques store goes wrong. Read the full review at The Avocado [https:/

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Unconventional Christmas Stories

Sometimes it’s nice to celebrate Christmas with a less traditional story. There’s always a place for a traditional special, story, or film. I like to shake things up and celebrate all facets of the holiday season.

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Fear Itself: S1E09 "Something With Bite"

The new Fear Itself review is up at The Avocado. This week, we’re looking at Ernest Dickerson’s second go at the franchise: Something with Bite. This over the top werewolf transformation comedy is a bright spot in the series. You can read the full review at The Avocado.

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#31Days: A Collection of Horror Essays Vol. 1

#31Days challenge is to watch a different horror film or TV show every day for the month of October. In his debut collection of non-fiction essays and reviews, professional media critic Robert J Gannon shares 65 original essays and reviews of horror media

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Spookier Times Episode 7: The Evil Santa Trope, Christmas Evil, and The Horror of the Holidays

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Fear Itself: S1E09 "Skin & Bones"

Up next on our Fear Itself review series at The Avocado is Skin & Bones. Multi-hyphenate filmmaker Larry Fessenden’s body horror is the last episode of the show to air on TV; the rest of the series got dumped on the backend of NBC’s website. I’m just grateful for the opportunity to celebrate one of

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Fear Itself: S1E07 "Community"

Our Fear Itself series continues over at The Avocado with Mary Harron’s Community. This is the kind of horror I’m really drawn to. I like deep dive psychological horror with style and great performances. It also gives me the chance to discuss gender bias in horror filmmaking. Not so fun fact: this i