I am loathe to defend someone for using the word “edutainment”, but the fact is movies have been distorting and exaggerating history since the birth of the medium. Buzzwords aside, I think Davis and Tennon seem pretty knowledgable about the real story and aware of the limits of of big budget studio filmmaking. The…

Co-Op is still one of the funniest things I’ve watched. Pitch-effing-perfect.

I’m assuming Rattle and Hum is too easy of a mark?

Yes they’re still queer, but women who benefit from the optics of straight privilege aren’t lacking representation. And just look at the initial comment that I responded to: it’s soooo common for writers to think they’re acing representation by giving their otherwise hetero characters one brief same-sex fling. The end…

thank you, kind sir, for opposing the tyranny of eloquence, the cruel yoke of a well-spoken argument, and the despotism of reason. Blessed be The Masked Farter, champion of idiots everywhere!

That’s not what they're making fun of us for...

Wish dot com? The site famous for absurdly cheap and inaccurately advertised items.

that the gay characters are too frequently portrayed as shifty schemers.

OMG I write and produce art for a living. This is how I grew up, and this is how my employers grade me. Not to mention that this is pointing out why a paid tv critic isn’t crazy to mention a damn trope. Just cause you don’t have a problem with it doesn’t make it go away. It just means you don’t have a problem with it.

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I just wanted to note that this is a *chef’s kiss* insult.

Also, it really does seem like Thomas Jane is turning into the new Christopher Lambert: some solid genre work in well-known films, then craaaaaaap. Why can’t the guy get a decent film behind him? I remember a few years ago he was onboard to do a live action…

increased representation does not mean 100-200% over represented. Try again.

I think the real issue around how LGBTQ characters are treated in the GOT universe is that they are always second or third-tier. So their deaths often have little impact aside from how they might impact other (inevitably straight) characters. Given how much suffering and death there is in this world, you are 100%…

Wow. That’s the first time I think anyone has deliberately said that out loud since the mid-90s...and the “are you kidding me?” made it even worse.

“The DCEU and DC Arrowverse were - and are - wa-ay ahead of the the curve here”

The Spartacus one is pretty famous among LGBTQ film buffs because of Vito Russo’s brilliant book The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in Movies which was turned into an (equally brilliant) documentary by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. That scene is discussed in-depth in the book and documentary.

And honestly, if…

The problem is in the pernicious and perennial nature of these tropes, as well as their kneejerk defenders, not that any individual repetition of them must be necessarily awful or inexplicable in themselves. Each individual instance is always going to have some justification like you’ve given, and they may even always…

Gonna need a citation thats not Fox News on that claim bud.

Doesn’t have to be very. Spartacus is 62 years old. For Gen Xers, that would be like being familiar with, I dunno, Howard Hughes films, and not through The Aviator, either.

Sure, this is the AV Club, but, man, how many of us of all ages have actually dared sit through Gone With The Wind, ya know?

It might make sense that he snaps, but a homophobic act of violence didn’t feel necessary. They could have done something else for shock value and they’ve already established enough motivation for Cole to turn against Rhaenyra. If they wanted him to go full-on crazy, did it have to be directed at a minor gay character…

Idk, maybe I’m just sick of all this. It’s supposed to be Mature Fantasy for Grown-Ups but no matter how much of a cultural phenomenon it’s become it all feels like something made for the least socially adjusted guy in your high school’s D&D club.