Category: Addiction

Addiction, Detective, Environment, Feminist, LGBTQ, Loss and Grief, Memory, Sci Fi, Social Issues

A Murder at the End of the World – A Review (Spoilers)

by HelenLeave a Comment on A Murder at the End of the World – A Review (Spoilers)
A Murder at the End of the World – A Review (Spoilers)

A Murder at the End of the World is a mini series by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, who created cult fan favourite The OA. It stars Emma Corrin and Harris Dickinson, with a stellar supporting cast, including Brit Marling herself, Clive Owen, Joan Chen, Raúl Esparza, Alice Braga, Pegah Ferydoni, Jermaine Fowler, Ryan J. Haddad and Edoardo Ballerini. UK viewers can watch it on Disney Plus.

This review is going to be spoiler heavy, so I’m going to put most of it behind a cut. I don’t usually review TV shows, but this mini series profoundly affected me and I feel like I need to write about it.

Continue reading “A Murder at the End of the World – A Review (Spoilers)” →

Addiction, Class, Interactive Fiction, LGBTQ, Life, Loss and Grief, Memory, Social Issues, Unreliable Narrator

Tell Me Why, by DontNod Entertainment – A Review

by HelenLeave a Comment on Tell Me Why, by DontNod Entertainment – A Review
Tell Me Why, by DontNod Entertainment – A Review

Tell Me Why is a narrative game by DontNod Entertainment, following a pair of twins, Tyler and Alyson, with the ability to communicate with each other through telepathy, who reunite after ten years in their hometown in rural Alaska and investigate the death of their mother.

This spooky, fairytale style mystery explores themes of love, loss, memory and acceptance, in a bleak yet beautiful setting.

Continue reading “Tell Me Why, by DontNod Entertainment – A Review” →

Addiction, Detective, Life, Loss and Grief, Memory, Novels, Ottessa Moshfegh, Unreliable Narrator

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Mosfegh – Review

by Helen1 Comment on Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Mosfegh – Review
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Mosfegh – Review

One day, an 72 year old widow named Vesta Gul is taking her daily walk in the forest with her dog, Charlie. And comes across a chilling note, weighed down with smooth black stones. It says “Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body”.

This leads to an investigation, a meditation on life and death, and the realisation that her marriage was not what it seemed.

Continue reading “Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Mosfegh – Review” →

Addiction, Class, Feminist, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ, Life, Loss and Grief, Novels, Ottessa Moshfegh, Social Issues

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh – Review

by Helen1 Comment on Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh – Review
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh – Review

Eileen is a 2015 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh. The novel is a memoir of the past, retelling Eileen’s last week in a freezing, miserable Massachusetts town, in the 1960s. It also functions as a rich and disturbing character study.
Continue reading “Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh – Review” →

Addiction, LGBTQ, Life, Loss and Grief, Novels

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier – Review

by HelenLeave a Comment on Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier – Review
Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier – Review

Pizza Girl, by Jean Kyoung Frazier, is a coming of age novel following a nameless 18 year old Korean American woman working in a pizza place. Her life changes when a struggling stay at home mother called Jenny calls in to her work, looking for a pizza with pickles…

Continue reading “Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier – Review” →

Addiction, Authors, Historical Fiction, Plays, Tennessee Williams

Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

by Helen1 Comment on Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams
Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

At a cheap hotel in Mexico, defrocked priest Lawrence Shannon clashes with bawdy hotel owner Maxine Faulk, and meets a saintly seeming drifter and artist, Hannah Jelkes, travelling with her elderly grandfather. Fever, stormy weather and lust wrack this Southern Gothic play by Tennessee Williams.

Continue reading “Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams” →