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    3-20 “Kids Can Be Cruel”

    Vikki Otero / August 4, 2020

    This picture is my favorite still in this history of the series. It’s so genius. The set-up is just perfect. Who is responsible for this? It’s a Directed By Asaad Kelada; I wonder…

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    3-21 – “Mind Your Own Business”

    Vikki Otero / July 6, 2020

    All writers journal, and the fact that I stopped journaling sometime in high school is probably the reason that my own writing career has stalled for the past 30 years or so. Thankfully,…

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  • Recaps,  Season 3

    3-19 “New York, New York”

    Vikki Otero / June 29, 2020

    At the beginning of the year, I followed the lead of a friend who engages in an annual ritual to choose three words that will define his year. The first one I chose…

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    3-11 “Legacy”

    Vikki Otero / June 3, 2020

    Black Lives Matter. If that phrase makes you salty, leave my blog and don’t come back. The thing is, the ones who leave because they’ve decided that I’m one of them Libs that…

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  • Recaps,  Season 1

    1-7 “Dieting”

    Vikki Otero / February 4, 2020

    I recently realized that I never hated my body. I definitely parroted my mother and sisters (eight and ten years older than me), saying things like “I’m on a diet,” or “I need…

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  • Recaps,  Season 5

    5-8: “I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can

    Vikki Otero / November 1, 2019

    My friend Elizabeth has with me since the beginning of this blog, and she’s just had a birthday. For her birthday, I’m taking her somewhere secret. It’s Mrs. G’s birthday too, and she,…

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  • Recaps,  Season 1

    1-6 “Emily Dickinson”

    Vikki Otero / September 10, 2019

    A classic. Wherein Blair is a big cheating cheater (academic, not relationship) and Mr. Bradley says the h-e-double-hockey-sticks word. Also plenty of gross creepage from white men. Good stuff. The episode begins with…

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  • Recaps,  Season 5

    5-3 “Gamma Gamma or Bust”

    Vikki Otero / January 15, 2019

    Quick, which Facts period is your favorite: Eastland, Edna’s Edibles, Over Our Heads, or Beverly Ann? I think, even accounting for the fact that Over Our Heads includes all the George Clooney episodes and…

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  • Recaps,  Season 4

    4-13: “Magnificent Obsession”

    Vikki Otero / January 9, 2019

    I’m sorry I haven’t posted anything new in so long. Apart from the fact that I started an actual paying part-time job which I’ve struggled to time-manage, I’ve been through some shit lately.…

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  • Recaps,  Season 4

    4-21 “Help From Home”

    Vikki Otero / November 15, 2018

    I started this blog when I was about to go to law school, and really made it a thing in part because of a need to interrupt the demands of law school with…

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