For about six months in 1997 I was obsessed with Xena. Not like its true fans of the day; I didn’t have posters or go to the internet to talk about it. I just recorded it and would come home on Monday afternoons and watch it. I would skip any episode that didn’t have Joxer [...]

Like any good episode this one begins with a fight between a bunch of dirty dudes with ill-advised tattoos. Xena wanders in and rather than force them all to bathe with fierce kicks she drops her sword, busts out a lisp and starts preaching against violence. Then she strips down and collapses into the arms [...]

Good old fashioned Xena. Bad wigs? Check. Bad set production value? Check. Fuzzy Kiwi accents? Check. Bizarre farcical humor? Check times a million. After two weeks of surprising ribeyes we’re back to a very solid meatloaf. And Xena, after interrogating a dude finds Joxer in the stock. Because he tried to steal a chicken. She [...]

This week begins with Gabrielle demanding to see the best friend she betrayed and we quickly learn that she was a monumentally naive woman and actually thought they’d capture Xena and then just let them leave. You can be mad at her but remember two things–she also thinks her devil baby can be good, and [...]

When last we saw Xena and Gabrielle there’d been the whole Hope debacle, and marking a turning point for the show when it comes to continuity, this begins kind of where that left off. Xena wakes up to find her boo bear sitting out in the darkness contemplating life. Valid after having a demon baby [...]

This episode gets into a lot of heavy female issues that I know we’ve all experienced.  The least of these is the cosmetic: teenagers getting zits, the thirty-and-forty-somethings covering their faces with wrinkle cream.  It seems that at every age, women have something else to worry about regarding their appearance.  I remember the desire to [...]

Forgive me if I sound like a teenage girl, but Oh My God, You Guys.  Episode 4 of MSCL is the most boring episode ever.  Why? Jordan Catalano is in only ONE scene. I’ve now realized that my whole reason for watching this series was due completely mostly to the Catalano fan service. And Father [...]

When last we saw them Gabrielle and Xena were cuddling in the shadow of Stonehenge. Now Gabrielle is in a crummy early 90s music video complete with funky color timing and long slow hugs with the woman she straight up stabbed. After some pan fluting and some more hugging Gabrielle pulls a knife out of [...]

Things start off light-hearted enough. Ares is doing some “sword” exercises when Discord shows up rocking a bad wig, a worst costume and a desire to talk about cults in England. It must be a big deal because all powerful gods are concerned and Ares has Julius Caesar handling the destruction of the cult’s temple. [...]

The third episode of My So-Called Life is about… well… guns.  And Gossip.  Obviously. It’s also possibly the most dramatic and memorable of the series. I grew up in the age of Columbine.  I wore trench coats to class.  Me and my buds were dubbed as part of the “mafia.” I’m pretty sure I saw [...]