The Nerd Degree: Heart of Dorkness

Just in time for Valentines Day, it’s the love-themed episode of everyone’s favourite “pop culture quiz show that’s recorded at Orange Studios”, The Nerd Degree. This episode is notable for me reading a poem I wrote about my first celebrity crush, Kirk Cameron.

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Mappelgangers: Christchurch and Pawnee

I’ve written before about the thoroughly delightful fact that the street maps for Pawnee used in Parks and Recreation were based off a map of my very own hometown Christchurch. So I was pretty thrilled to be able to dig up some facts about how that came to be for an article on The Spinoff.

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Preacher recap: Episode 10, Season 1

Well this is it, pardners, the season 1 finale. Whether we see God is debatable but it seems highly likely that chaos and havoc will ensue. I honestly have no idea how this will play out but am assuming it will be as entertaining as all get-out. It’s a slightly longer than usual episode of…

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Preacher recap: Season 1, Episode 9

Well, last week was pretty action-packed, what with the Alamo-esque stand-offs, the insight into the twisted head of Odin Quincannon, pet murder, and an overriding mission statement that’s starting to look a lot like “God. What the fuck use is he?” Mysteries of subterranean machinery remain, and Jesse’s relationship with the town, God, and everyone looks…

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Preacher recap: Season 1, Episode 8

This episode is called El Valero, which as best as I can tell is a reference to The Alamo. Given the set up at the end of the last episode, that seems like a pretty good excuse for a standoff of epic proportions. Remaining questions include – “what the fuck happened to Cassidy?” and “could…

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Preacher recap: Season 1, Episode 7

When last we saw Annville’s resident Preacher Jesse Custer, he might just have made himself the worst man of religion ever by sending one of his parishioners to Hell. This episode, entitled “He Gone”, will hopefully fill us in on whether’s that’s what actually happened or at least let us bear witness to the resulting…

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Preacher recap: Season 1, Episode 6

Back into it! This episode is called “Sundowner” so I’m guessing something or someone will be going down at the local motel. Given that this show has a vampire character, it could also be related to him. I have my glass of communion wine at the ready, so let’s find out… The week’s episode opens…

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Preacher recap: Season 1, Episode 5

Argh! Still a week behind. Episode catch up continues. This episode is called “South will rise again”, and I’m really hoping this doesn’t mean Confederate Zombies but who knows with this show? We open with the return of the cowboy from episode 2. We’d kind of forgotten about him, hadn’t we? Now, just remind us, what…

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Preacher recap: Season 1, Episode 4

So I’m frantically trying to catch up on episodes after having a hectic couple of weeks of non-viewing. But anyway, this episode is called “Monster Swamp” which is a phrase the Sheriff used at the end of the last episode by way of describing the anarchic and violent nature of things to his son, Eugene….

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Preacher recap: Season 1, Episode 3

Gah. So trying to get recaps up in a timely fashion didn’t really happen. My bad. Perhaps I need an inner voice with the timbre of Jesse Custer’s ordering me to pull finger and sort my shit out?  Speaking of which, the last time we saw the holy man in question he was instructing a…

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