Deirdre Swain is a freelance film and TV critic, writer, and editor. For four years she was a freelance film reviewer at NOW Magazine. Her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Eye Weekly, Filmprint, Soulshine Magazine, Edition, and The Whig Standard, as well as on CBC Newsworld, Chicklit.com, and Suite 101, among others.
As you can tell from her blog and Twitter title, she was once obsessed with The Simpsons (both are from the S6 episode “A Star is Burns.” The tagline is from the S3 episode “Black Widower”). She worships at the altar of Anthony Lane, P.G. Wodehouse, Dorothy L. Sayers, the Dave Matthews Band and the Beastie Boys; dances salsa (badly); is fascinated by sustainable architecture and design; hates sports in general but loves soccer and the Olympics; and has questions ready to go whenever she’s lucky enough to attend tapings of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
She loves documentaries, Jane Austen, Jasper Fforde, Pixar films, the New Yorker and Harry Potter. She once wrote a paper on Aaron Sorkin and still believes the first two seasons of The West Wing were the best thing ever to happen to television. Other favourite shows include Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men, Veronica Mars, Arrested Development, Holmes Inspection, Property Virgins, Sports Night, Community, The Good Wife, and Glee.
She currently resides in Toronto, but hopes to live somewhere with mountains when she grows up.
