She came back so fast that half of the “fridging” essays were still in rough draft form.

IT IS TIME, Death said.

“Bad look” and “optics” both mean “It’s your fault I misunderstood what you did.”

The biggest gripe with this series is it honestly just isn’t all that interesting. it seems to be trying to be a slow burn but it’s not really setting much up and there are very few hooks to really keep me interested. I plan to finish watching it but I definitely don’t see this as something I will return to like Andor…

These are fictional people, so I’m mostly amused, and her origin IS basically this, but describing Hawkgirl purely as “the star-crossed lover of Hawkman” is peak “famous woman’s accomplishments reduced to her relationship to man”, hehehe. Especially post animated Justice League.

I mean, sure, he was in Black Adam, but…

Barsanti is the absolute worst. I defy you to find a worse writer on this site.

He probably didn’t dignify the question of “is this a conspiracy?” with an answer because it’s a dumb question. This is just logical counter-programming: one’s a comedy angled at teens and kids, and the other’s a somber adult drama.

I would argue the reason there’s no agreed upon definition is because people keep moving the goalpost over what it means. I mean, for instance you start this article by trying to define it as basically ANY bad thing that happens to a female character (not exclusively related to death). That kind of definition puts the…

Also, seriously, who cares?  Was anyone in the theater, male or female, like, “Oh no, I thought I was going to get to learn about the rich inner life of Quill’s mom.”

“Give Peter Quill a reason to leave earth”

“To this day there is no universally agreed upon definition for fridging, it’s just one of those things you know when you see it”

i think we’re all waiting for this website to do actual media criticism, and not glorified twitter threads of buzzword outrage bait.

A dead parent within an origin story is not fridging. Heroes have been orphaned from the beginning of fiction; that’s not what this discussion is about. Dead parents are kind of equally spread across genders, and that was not the phenomenon that Simone was describing.

She chose to die, that’s true, but she fought Clint for the right to go over the cliff because he had a family to go back to and she didn’t. As we learned in Avengers: Age Of Ultron, she’s incapable of having children, thus her life is determined to be worth less than his. She sacrificed herself to save the world, but…

We won’t know until we’ve seen the second half of the series.

(Oppenheimer pulls his pants down)

In case you missed it (and most people did miss it), check out Confess, Fletch. Hamm is as good in the role as Chase was and the movie fits in really well with the resurgence of whodunnits.

Also, I’ll be going out of my way to check this movie out.

THE AV CLUB! (?)

Regardless, the decision to perform the song wearing dark face paint was ill-advised,