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Comic By Lóa Hjálmtýsdóttir
Lóa Hjálmtýsdóttir is a comic artist, musician and probably a bunch of other things, too. She has contributed to Grapevine since way back when.
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TV Goddess: Seinfeld Revisited
Where’s the remote? Ah, nevermind here it is. Bleugh, why do I feel like I’ve seen everything worth watching on Netflix. Seen it, seen it, boring, too depressing, too stupid. I’ll just find something else to do… what the hell? Amazon Prime?…
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The Lóaboratoríum: Winter Is Here
Lóa Hjálmtýsdóttir is a comic artist, musician and probably a bunch of other things, too. She has contributed to Grapevine since way back when. Our very favourite, here she presents her latest, taken from our new issue, on the street now.
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TV Goddess: Criminal UK And The Creature Of Comfort
Criminal is a twelve episode international Netflix series. It’s set in four European countries: Germany, Spain, France and the United Kingdom and all of the episodes share the same limited setting—an interrogation room, an observation room and the hallway at a police…
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TV Goddess: Archibald’s Next Big Thing
I have around 38 years of cartoon watching under my belt. I never stopped watching cartoons, even when most people my age moved onto other things. When I first heard Eric Cartman’s voice in ‘South Park,’ I had trouble breathing from laughing.…
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TV Goddess: Dave Chapelle’s “Sticks & Stones”
When you watch old comedy shows or stand-up, you forgive the performer many things because the jokes are often a child of their times. Many of them don’t have the capacity to become classics because their ideas age badly. In his Netflix…
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TV Goddess: Mindhunter Season 2
First of all: This is not the show you should be watching when you’re weaning yourself off of anti-anxiety medication. The stories in Mindhunter are based on true crimes of real serial killers and are not a good pairing with brain zaps…
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The Lóaboratoríum: Taking On Veganism
Lóa Hjálmtýsdóttir is a comic artist, musician and probably a bunch of other things, too. She has contributed to Grapevine since way back when. Our very favourite, here she presents her latest, taken from our new issue, on the street now.
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TV Goddess: The Family
Jesus H. Christ! It looks like the conspiracy nutters were right all along. There are mad little illuminati men running around the world ruining everything. Netflix (my go-to source in life) has spawned yet another awesome series. The nuttiest of countries ‘The…
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TV Goddess: ‘Stranger Things’ Season 3
I hope you’ve watched ‘Stranger Things 3’ because, if you haven’t, this will ruin it a little bit for you. But first, a small introduction to Icelandic culture: The winter is long, blah blah blah, we watch American TV a lot and…
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TV Goddess: Girls Incarcerated
Netflix has released another docuseries and this time we get to spend time behind bars with girls. The first season of ‘Girls Incarcerated’ is set in a women’s jail, but in the second—which happens to be my favourite—the girls are in a…
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TV Goddess: Grimm Pickings
A few nights ago I was scavenging Netflix for anything I could have playing in the background while working. My criteria are simple: a series to have more than two seasons, it must be somewhat entertaining, and it can’t have anything to…
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TV Goddess: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
I haven’t looked it up but there has probably been a study where a photo of Elijah Wood’s face has been used to determine whether people are sociopaths or not. There is something about the arrangement of his features and the colour…
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TV Goddess: Easy S01 Review
I like the rain and I enjoy getting sick. I’m happy whenever I get a legitimate reason to watch TV without feeling I should be doing something important with my time. When I managed to weasel my way into writing a TV…
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Last Words: Lóa’s Hjálmtýsdóttir’s Football Infection
I have more than ninety-nine problems, but the worst one is a severe case of defiance disorder. It’s a common side-effect of having been a teenager in the nineties. This disorder makes it extremely difficult to enjoy popular things like sports, new…
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Comic By Lóa Hjálmtýsdóttir
Lóa Hjálmtýsdóttir is a comic artist, musician and probably a bunch of other things, too. She has contributed to Grapevine since way back when. SUPPORT THE ARTIST by buying her book Generalizations about nations, here.
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FM Belfast’s Iceland Airwaves Survival Guide
Hello beautiful stranger. If you’re reading this, I’m going to take it as a sign you’ve never been to Airwaves before. Please note that I’m going to give advice based on myself, and not a twenty-year-old with pockets full of money and…
