Sophie SmithSophie Smith

Sophie works for 12 hours a day in a lab, by herself, testing sand. A copious amount of television helps to bring her back from the brink of insanity.

Ten hopes for the Handmaid’s Tale finale (WARNING: SPOILERS)

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Episode 10 of The Handmaid’s Tale hits Lightbox today. Sophie Smith lists her hopes and dreams for the series finale. ????SPOILER ALERT???? This list contains a lot of spoilers from the first nine episodes. Last week I wrote down some feelings I had about the pilot of The Handmaid’s Tale. I have since marathoned the … Read more

Reading The Handmaid’s Tale changed my life. Here’s what I think of the TV show

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Sophie Smith, a superfan of Atwood’s dystopian novel, reviews the first episode of The Handmaid’s Tale. I first read Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in one evening when I was working the night shift at a mine (the processing plant was down and out – and on that particular shift it actually wasn’t my fault). … Read more

Slay Queen: Why Buffy Summers is the feminist hero I never knew I needed

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Sophie Smith discovers a feminist firestarter in Buffy Summers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and shares how her own life has since been influenced by the cult ’90s icon.  Despite being a feminist killjoy and enthusiast of most things Joss Whedon, it was only this year that I finally sought out the cult classic Buffy the … Read more

TV Taught Me: Dr House – Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Hypochondria

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Sophie Smith shares health lessons learned from watching House, and how the show both helped and hindered her struggle with hypochondria. I have always been excessively anxious about my health. For as long as I can remember, any prolonged or acute headache has been followed by the declaration that I must have a brain tumour. Pain in my … Read more