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Episode Revisit

Deep dives into individual TV episodes that broke the rules, broke your heart, or permanently altered the series.


The Quiet Revolution of The Last of Us’ “Long, Long Time”

The Quiet Revolution of The Last of Us’ “Long, Long Time”

Or How One Hour of Television Gave Queer Viewers the Story We Were Told We'd Never Get

Oct 19, 2025

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5 min read

The Animals: How Poussey’s Death Broke Us — and Why It Mattered

The Animals: How Poussey’s Death Broke Us — and Why It Mattered

Grief, protest, and the moment when OITNB became something bigger than television.

Sep 28, 2025

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4 min read

The Alias Pilot Remains the Most Brutal, Beautiful Hour of Network TV Ever Made

The Alias Pilot Remains the Most Brutal, Beautiful Hour of Network TV Ever Made

Dead fiancé. Red hair dye. CIA reveal. Piano score. Jennifer Garner running through a parking garage like grief is chasing her. It’s art. It’s pain. It’s everything.

Sep 21, 2025

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4 min read

"All Hell Breaks Loose": The End of Prue, the Breaking of Charmed, and the Moment TV Got Real

"All Hell Breaks Loose": The End of Prue, the Breaking of Charmed, and the Moment TV Got Real

Or how grief, chaos, and an unexpected goodbye reshaped a generation

Aug 27, 2025

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6 min read

Grief, Guilt and the Cost of Power: How Charmed Devastates with 2-Parter 'Awakened' and 'Astral Monkey'

Grief, Guilt and the Cost of Power: How Charmed Devastates with 2-Parter 'Awakened' and 'Astral Monkey'

Or when Piper nearly dies, magic intervenes—and everything breaks.

Jul 27, 2025

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4 min read

When Meredith Held the Bomb: How Grey’s Anatomy Changed TV Forever With One Explosive Two-Parter

When Meredith Held the Bomb: How Grey’s Anatomy Changed TV Forever With One Explosive Two-Parter

Season 2, Episodes 16 & 17 weren’t just high-stakes drama—they were a blueprint for the future of television.

Jun 11, 2025

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6 min read

Richie Is the Unexpected Queer Masc Energy I Didn’t Know I Needed

Richie Is the Unexpected Queer Masc Energy I Didn’t Know I Needed

Or what happens when toxic masculinity starts healing while listening to Taylor Swift? Growth. That’s what happens.

Jun 8, 2025

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4 min read

Silence, Stakes, and Stillness: Why The Body Remains One of TV's Most Devastating Hours

Silence, Stakes, and Stillness: Why The Body Remains One of TV's Most Devastating Hours

Or how Buffy the Vampire Slayer broke the rules of genre and grief in one brutal episode

Jun 1, 2025

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3 min read

Power, Punishment and Phoebe Halliwell

Power, Punishment and Phoebe Halliwell

Revisiting “Morality Bites” and why it’s the darkest, smartest episode Charmed ever gave us

May 6, 2025

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5 min read

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Where queer millennial nostalgia settles in. Part diary, part TV debrief, part late night spiral about the scenes that shaped us. A place for the characters we held close, the crushes we could not shake, and the moments that linger long after the credits fade, usually turning up again when we least expect it.

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Nathan writes about TV as memory, queer adolescence as folklore, and the tiny moments that shaped who we became. He lives in Naarm with his cat, Captain.

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