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Author Allison Mattern

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Allison Mattern

Teacher of Reality

Allison Mattern is a high school English teacher who shamelessly loves reality television. She's a dog person, but owns three cats because she's lazy and they're easier to take care of. She spends most of her free time grading papers, but sometimes gets to watch her favorite shows, and sometimes she gets to write about them.

Another Take: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Allison Mattern
November 21, 2016
Movies, Reviews
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a welcome return to the wizarding world.

The Magicians 1.13 “Have You Brought Me Little Cakes?”

Allison Mattern
April 18, 2016
Reviews, TV
Now, that’s how you do a cliffhanger.

The Magicians 1.12 “Thirty-Nine Graves”

Allison Mattern
April 10, 2016
Reviews, TV
It feels weird to say this about the penultimate episode leading up to what’s bound to be a bloody and violent meeting with The Beast, but this episode was a lot of fun.

The Magicians 1.11 “Remedial Battle Magic”

Allison Mattern
April 3, 2016
Reviews, TV
My first reaction after watching this episode of The Magicians was “Quentin, you are an IDIOT.”

The Magicians 1.10 “Homecoming”

Allison Mattern
March 27, 2016
Reviews, TV
In a departure from last week’s super serious tone, this episode is all kinds of awkward and features tons of sex.

The Magicians 1.09 “The Writing Room”

Allison Mattern
March 20, 2016
Reviews, TV
This was a perfect episode in every way, adding even more depth and layers to the narrative- now we not only have a villain, but we have a villain with a creation story that we are interested in unraveling.

The Magicians 1.08 “The Strangled Heart”

Allison Mattern
March 14, 2016
Reviews, TV
This episode of The Magicians featured a pair of particularly violent deaths, one to a furry friend that was extremely NOT humorous in the vein of cancer puppy, and one to a character that I didn’t expect.

The Magicians 1.07 “The Mayakovsky Circumstance”

Allison Mattern
March 6, 2016
Reviews, TV
I can’t help but feel disappointed because the time spent at Brakebills South in Antarctica was so short and felt so rushed.

The Magicians 1.06 “Impractical Applications”

Allison Mattern
February 28, 2016
Reviews, TV
This episode of The Magicians cranks up the gore and the sex appeal to great effect and offers up three pretty big surprising moments.

The Magicians 1.04 & 1.05

Allison Mattern
February 21, 2016
Reviews, TV
The best part of The Magicians, for me, has been the balance the writers have been able to find between silly and serious.

The Magicians 1.03 “Consequences of Advanced Spellcasting”

Allison Mattern
February 7, 2016
Reviews, TV
The latest episode of The Magicians begins with a newly returned, and blinded, headmaster giving a lecture on how dangerous magic can be.
5.0

The Magicians 1.02 “The Source of Magic”

Allison Mattern
January 31, 2016
Reviews, TV
As I suspected it would be, the second episode of The Magicians was a HUGE improvement over the first.

The Magicians 1.01 “Unauthorized Magic”

Allison Mattern
January 24, 2016
Reviews, TV
The Magicians comes out of the gate with an uneven start, but ends with just enough intrigue to keep me coming back.
4.0

Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge 1.02 “Return of the Skeksis”

Allison Mattern
April 8, 2014
Reviews, TV
Their creature is pretty much a hot mess.
3.0

Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge 1.01 “What Lies Beneath”

Allison Mattern
April 1, 2014
Reviews, TV
There’s a lot of foam and clay sculpting in the workroom just like in Face/Off, but then they bring in the puppeteers for a practice session!

Sex, Lies, and TRUE DETECTIVE

Allison Mattern, Josh Mattern
March 26, 2014
Shot for Shot, TV
I mean, you can say that it’s a show about men and these particular men and how they treat the women in their lives--but that also has nothing to do with random, prolonged boob shots.
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