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10 Apr

How Do We (Maybe) Say Goodbye to Wynonna Earp?

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Everyone deserves love. If this ends up being Wynonna Earp‘s final legacy, then it’s a fitting one for a show that moved the needle on queer representation on TV and always had an immense degree of empathy for its characters, even and perhaps especially when those characters got things wrong. In a pop culture that still skews heavily towards glorifying performances of White, male stoicism, Wynonna Earp has always been unapologetic about granting its sloppy, sentimental characters grace. Messy women don’t often get the benefit of the doubt in culture, popular or otherwise. We’re scorned, doubted, and belittled. Asked to…
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03 Apr

Wynonna Earp Just Fixed Its Biggest Plot Misstep

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This Wynonna Earp article contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 11: “Better Dig Two.” “Better Dig Two,” the penultimate episode of Wynonna Earp Season 4, gave viewers a lot to unpack. Waverly was a Dark Angel, and then she wasn’t. Doc was the Clanton heir, and then he wasn’t. Everything was fucked, and then it wasn’t. This show does such a good job raising the stakes, but it doesn’t always nail its pacing. I would have liked to see the story beats hit in these last two episodes stretched out a bit longer, and really explored. Is the Dark Angel…
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27 Mar

Wynonna Earp Season 4 Episode 10 Review: Life Turned Upside Down

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This Wynonna Earp review contains spoilers. Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 10 Like most good-but-not-great episodes of this beloved show, “Life Turned Upside Down” is an instance of Wynonna Earp biting off more narrative than it can effectively chew in one, hour-long installment. What starts as an episode that promises to delve further into Wynonna’s alcohol abuse and other mental health struggles and how they affect her loved ones quickly veers into a more action-forward story that sees Waverly kidnapped by her worst nightmare and BBD upper management initiating a plan that could end Purgatory (and some of our favorite…
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20 Mar

Wynonna Earp Season 4 Episode 9 Review: Crazy

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This Wynonna Earp review contains spoilers. Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 9 Wynonna Earp has often balanced the inherent darkness of its premise with, among other tones, some zany supernatural fun. Ostensibly, “Crazy” is another case-of-the-week story that has Wynonna & co. hunting a social media-obsessed genie who has a cannibal suffering from kuru disease as her, er, master. Past that, it’s yet another glimpse into just how deeply Wynonna has internalized the curse she was once ruled by, and just how much she is suffering because of it. She may no longer be beholden to the Earp curse, but…
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13 Mar

Wynonna Earp Season 4 Episode 8 Review: Hell Raisin’ Good Time

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This Wynonna Earp review contains spoilers. Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 8 Oh, to be a fly on the (probably Zoom) wall of the Wynona Earp writers’ room during the brainstorm session about which Halloween costumes each character should wear in this autumnal holiday-themed installment! Reader, they nailed it. Wynonna dresses as feminist hero Britney Spears (compliment of Waverly for both bringing the costume together and knowing that Wynonna would be into it), and Wonder Woman. Doc is bisexual icon Freddie Mercury. And Waverly… well, Waverly is a ladybug and then an angel. It’s all beyond perfect, and epitomizes just…
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06 Mar

Wynonna Earp Season 4 Episode 7 Review: Love’s All Over

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This Wynonna Earp review contains spoilers. Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 7 Damn, it’s good to have Wynonna Earp back. “Love’s All Around” has a clever premise that wastes no time throwing us back into this world after more than six months away. In a mix of Greco-Roman mythology and Midsummer Night’s Dream, Waverly makes a bet with a stripper/food deliverer/”love professional” named Demetri (I guess Puck was already taken) that love is real. Unbeknownst to Waves, Demetri is actually a Cupid and he has slipped a vial of love flakes into her blazer pocket. Whoever touches a flake will…
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05 Feb

Could Wynonna Earp Still Get a Season 5?

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As soon as news dropped that Wynonna Earp Season 4 would be the final season of the fan favorite supernatural western to air on Syfy, the next logical question for most fans (including this one) was: could Wynonna Earp Season 5 happen elsewhere? In this age of peak distribution platforms and cult classics revived from the apparent dead for one last hurrah, could there still be a future for Wynonna Earp? Like many things, it mostly depends on money. Before we get too far into this article, it’s important to note that any possible continuation of the Wynonna Earp TV…
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19 Oct

How Wynonna Earp’s Wayhaught Has Changed The TV Landscape

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We set the stage: It is the Wynonna Earp midseason finale. Two people, who have gone through hell and high water at each other’s side, make a decision to bind themselves to the other. It’s a choice grounded in love, kindness, understanding, and hope for a better future. The only difference is that this love is shared between two women who, in addition to battling literal demons, have also battled harmful LGBTQ tropes like “Bury Your Gays” and come out on top in spite of it—bulletproof vests sometimes included. Bury Your Gays: A History aka When Queer Stories Don’t Include…
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14 Oct

How Wynonna Earp is Busting the Moonlighting Curse

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The following contains spoilers for Wynonna Earp season 4. While we wait for Wynonna Earp to return from its COVID-instigated midseason hiatus, it seems like the perfect time to dig into one of the show’s most complicated and rich topics: The layered relationship between Wynonna Earp and Doc Holliday, and the ways in which the show has committed to telling a love story that goes beyond whether a particular pairing will get together in the end. Far too many TV series – genre or otherwise – waste far too much screen time delaying the organic progression of their two leads’…
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04 Sep

Wynonna Earp Season 4 Belongs to Nicole Haught

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This article contains spoilers for Wynonna Earp season 4 Nicole Haught has been a Wynonna Earp fan-favorite since she first set foot in Shorty’s in “Keep The Home Fires Burning,” the second episode of the show. The red-headed deputy-turned-sheriff-turned-defender-of-the-homestead grounds her love, Waverly, and the show as a whole, bringing her decidedly non-supernatural skills as an investigator and ass-whupper. And on season 4 of a show full of supernatural beings, named after a trash-talking, fringe-wearing superhero, it feels like the very-mortal Nicole Haught is finally getting the credit she deserves for being exactly who she’s been all along: steadfast, loyal, hardworking,…
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31 Aug

Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 6 Review: Holy War Part Two

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This Wynonna Earp review contains spoilers. Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 6 You can love a narrative choice that a show makes without loving what it means for a specific character. If I knew Wynonna Earp in real life, I, like Doc Holliday, would be seriously afraid for her following her choice to shoot Sheriff Holt in the back, after he agreed to try to work towards ending the long-running feud between the Earps and the Clantons. But, as a fan and reviewer of this show, I love this choice that the Wynonna Earp writing team made. It implies a…
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30 Aug

When Will Wynonna Earp Season 4 Return?

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Bad news bears, everyone. Wynonna Earp is going on hiatus following tonight’s episode (aka Season 4, Episode 6: “Holy War Part Two”). While the Syfy series was lucky enough to get some production in before the outbreak of COVID-19 forced an unexpected stop back in March, the halt meant the season had to be split into two parts. After the sixth episode, Wynonna Earp Season 4 will be going on hiatus until 2021. This all feels particularly unfair for a season that, if everything had initially gone according to plan, would have already aired. In February 2019, unexpected funding difficulties…
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27 Aug

The Surrealtor: Syfy Supernatural Series to Star Wynonna Earp’s Tim Rozon

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While the concept of new scripted shows may already feel like a bygone idea in this era of pandemic-frozen productions, Syfy is actually moving forward with one such offering in The Surrealtor. Moreover, the main cast of the series has been officially announced, with a headliner familiar to viewers of the channel in Wynonna Earp’s Tim Rozon. The Surrealtor, which landed a 10-episode series order back in February—alongside its touted Day of the Dead series—signals momentum with the announcement of its main cast players. The series puts a fixer-upper spin on the Ghostbusters paranormal exterminator dynamic, showcasing the exploits of…
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24 Aug

Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 4 Review: Holy War Part One

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This Wynonna Earp review contains spoilers. Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 4 “Destiny is what we are drawn towards and fate is that which we run into.” Waverly needs to embroider this onto a pillow to have around the homestead because it’s not a half-bad motto for the Earp family, nor for the show itself. We know from the glimpses we’ve had into Waverly and Wynonna’s childhood, as well as from the information we’ve gathered about the history of this town and the Earps’ place in it, that The Family Earp has not always been the bastion of support and…
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17 Aug

Wynonna Earp Season 4 Episode 4 Review: Afraid

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This Wynonna Earp review contains spoilers. Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 4 With all of the genres Wynonna Earp regularly dives into, it can easy to forget that this show has some straight-up horror tendencies. Every once in a while, it will drop an episode that is terrifying and remind us all that, while this may be a queer found family drama that believes in the power of love above all else, it can also scare the shit out of us. “Afraid” was one such episode. Last season, the trees ate people. This season, the rocks are coming for the…
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10 Aug

Wynonna Earp Season 4 Episode 3 Review: Look at Them Beans

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This Wynonna Earp review contains spoilers. Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 3 In last week’s review, I commented that the episode could have been a (great) season finale. It follows, then, that this week’s episode, “Look at Them Beans,” would have the vibes of a season premiere, which it totally does. New setting! New characters! And new problems for Team Earp to deal with. (That last one is not getting an exclamation point.) Setting doesn’t just refer to a story’s location, but also a story’s time. Therefore, time jumps are effectively ways of switching up a TV show’s setting in…
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03 Aug

Wynonna Earp Season 4 Episode 2 Review: Friends in Low Places

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This Wynonna Earp review contains spoilers. Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 2 Damn, Wynonna Earp. That sex scene. In the context of the show, the Wayhaught love scene was gorgeous, sexy, and one of the most romantic scenes of the entire series so far. In the larger context of television history, it was one of the most explicit and beautiful sex scenes between two women that I have ever seen on network or basic cable TV. In many ways, Wynonna Earp follows a tried-and-true genre TV formula: a snarky-yet-sentimental narrative path laid out by shows like Buffy and Supernatural. But…
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27 Jul

Wynonna Earp Season 4 Episode 1 Review: On the Road Again

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This Wynonna Earp review contains spoilers. Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 1 Hold onto your flasks, Earpers. For the next six weeks, new episodes of Wynonna Earp will be gracing our hearts and eyeballs. It’s almost too good to believe that, after almost two years, a time in which funding snafus and then COVID-19 temporary halted production, we have more of this wonderfully bonkers, ridiculously fun, and unabashedly sentimental story that centers found family, queer love, and women getting shit done to look forward to, but sometimes the universe gives you something good. Given the long, long hiatus, you would…
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21 Jul

Wynonna Earp Recap: What to Remember For Season 4

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Guys. It’s been two years since the Wynonna Earp Season 3 finale and, if you’re anything like me, you have probably forgotten some of the finer points of the show’s recent plot past: omg, Waverly and Nicole are (basically) engaged! With the Wynonna Earp Season 4 premiere just around the corner (it hits Sunday, July 26th), let us all go over what was going down in the Ghost River Triangle (and beyond) when we last left it back in 2018, A Simpler Time. The Earp Curse is Broken The Earp curse is no more. In the Season 3 finale, Wynonna…
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