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Sketches from the Peabody Award-winning third season of Inside Amy Schumer were as shareable as GIFs on social media this summer. From one feed to another, people posted clips of her show while proclaiming to have just discovered the feminist icon of comedy...

I’m a total award season junkie and I will definitely see all of the Best Picture nominees by January 2016, but I think it’s worth it to wait to gush over Tom Hardy’s double performance in Legend, Bryan Cranston in Trumbo, or Julianne Moore and Ellen Page in Freeheld.

As consumers of media, we have a seemingly insatiable appetite for mimesis. The characters, morals, and storylines from ancient mythology, religious texts, and canonical literature have been reshaped and repurposed in innumerable ways to create new pieces of literature, theatre, and cinema.

When you live in a city as big as Toronto and are smashed between people going in different directions with different agendas, jobs, and lives, the human condition seems forgotten. It becomes a challenge to recall in the way we view the world.