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Want to know what gerrymandering is?

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If you've ever wondered what exactly gerrymandering is, well now there's an app for that. What on the surface seems a complicated concept that might be hard to get your head around - rigging electoral boundaries so that you can win more seats despite not having a majority in the overall population, is made simple and clear with the delightful little puzzle game ' Gerrymander: Rig the Election '. Despite some issues with point systems and level progression (it's too easy to get stuck later on having to repeat levels over and over to earn enough points to unlock the next one), it's fun and addictive, tongue-in-cheek puzzler which serves to show just how easy our political systems can me manipulated. Definitely worth spending a few minutes of your time on, while standing in line to cast a vote.  

The fantastical world of Marvelous Mrs Maisel

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I gave in, I succumbed to The Marvelous Mrs Maisel ! For many years my mother and sister have been imploring me to The Gilmore Girls. While they weren't the only to recommend it to me, they were my main beseechers, and while I never denied that what I had seen of it seemed to be well written with endearing characters, I just never found the time. 'There is too much other good TV I need to watch first' and 'I'll watch it one day when I retire' (along with learning to play a MMORPG) were among my favourite excuses. The 1950s period setting for the series, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel  intrigued me (Mad Men still has a lot to answer for), and when I realised it was from Amy Sherman-Palladino , the creator of Gilmore Girls , I knew I'd found an out to my Gilmore Girls shaming. Just eight episodes, released all at once on Amazon Prime would be easy to finish off. Little did I know just how easy it would be to consume. The Marvelous Mrs Maisel is a delightful con

We're all looking forward to the next season of Jessica Jones, right?

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I've sat through far to many hours of silly Marvel shows on Netflix, and it's all basically because of Jessica Jones. The first season was so adeptly executed, the story, the pacing, the characters, the performances, that it's glow managed to rub off on all those other Marvel shows. It didn't need the city/world on the verge of ending to create compelling tension, David Tennant's unsettling villain, with her intimate agenda, up against Krysten Ritter's bruised determination as Jones was more than enough. She was the only good thing about the boring Defenders series, so it's time to get excited again about having a whole story all about her again. If only it was a big screen movie.