There’s no real way to gauge the quality of a show when you’re a background performer. As human set decoration, you’re far removed from the actors, dialogue, and any real context of the scene you’re
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Tales from the Background: THE TWILIGHT ZONE
“I wonder if I’ll make tenure?” I quipped to my fellow background performer as we examined our newly fitted costumes in a full-length mirror. My comment referred to the fact that I very much resembled
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Tales from the Background: SUPERGIRL (Part 2)
If my more cowardly turn as a fleeing subway janitor in an earlier episode of Supergirl’s third season had been difficult to spot, my new camouflage threads didn’t do my visibility any favours as I
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Tales From The Background: THE FLASH
The Flash is one of those shows I wish I had watched from its premiere, but is too far along to bother catching up on (I’m still making my way through Star Trek: The Next
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Tales from the Background: SUPERGIRL
For the first season at least, Supergirl’s fictional setting of Central City was situated comfortably in Southern California. But when the ratings failed to persuade CBS to keep it on the air, the show was
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Tales from the Background: SALVATION
It was an unusually warm and sunny March in Richmond, BC. Folks cycled and walked along the riverside path, birds chirped as jets took to the sky from neighbouring Sea Island, and in an unassuming
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