As someone who taught HS for a decade (AND who actually went to an NYC private school of spoiled rich kids for half my education - as the scholarship kid, though we disproportionately just had mobster grandkids), I sort of both loathe everything about this and get why it makes sense for a serialized television show.…

I think the crux of the show has to be Patty and Allison, so I’m glad we’re getting here more quickly. I’m wondering if one of the levels of the show is also a Bechdel test deconstruction within sitcoms. Patty and Allison literally never really interact in the premiere until Patty comes into “Allison’s World” on the…

I mean, the one thing the article author is correct about is the lesbian subtext of the original vampire novel/lla. Interview may have RE-injected, but Le Fanu clearly went there in 1872.

It’s actually xenophobia coded. Dracula is the Eastern European other, the immigrant literally bearing a blood disease. The American, another foreigner, as one of the rescue posse is also presented as undesirable, uncouth, and problematic.

I point to Gal Gadot as the double down on the racial ambiguity can-you-get-a-tan litmus. F4, because she is with the Mexican cartel, sign posts her aligned as latina (and emergency default love interest if Letty is dead). F5 walks that back, clarifies she has Israeli training (also, more interesting romantic…

It just feels weird that I have to explain to people that F&F is pretty good stupid fun until... they kill off Gal Gadot? And then I have to explain that pre-Wonder Woman was also part of this extended universe, and the romantic partner of a character with an alias that plays on Star Wars.

This explanation does turn…

You can literally see the Indian Ocean meeting the Atlantic Ocean off of George, South Africa.  The dolphins have a lot fun jumping over where the currents meet.  It’s adorable. (Also, giant fucking millipedes if you go hiking on the bluffs). 

And Happy Father’s Day! Hope you, Cookie Jr, and Bagel Monster celebrated the end of an era here.

The character is depicted as at least 3 different races in the comics.

Try reading the WHOLE thing next time, it makes the conversation better. 

I have a Beebo blanket.  

Clearly the answer is that Grace and Anissa belong with all of the other lesbian superheroes on Batwoman, and Jennifer can come over for some sister frustration bonding with Mary. OR .... Jennifer probably would have some decent bonding with Alice after that whole “my family didn’t realize it wasn’t me” arc. 

This is the biggest issue with the musical adaptation from a Broadway show - no intermissions anymore in movies.

I dated a guy who lived in Bushwick a few years ago, who had moved to the city from out of town. He did not understand why my native ass New Yorker self took literal months to not be in hyper vigilant mode every time we went to his neighborhood. Then again, I kind of fondly remember the Williamsburg crack den days. Als…

I mean, Miranda literally wrote a book footnoting the hip-hop references.  SOMETIMES it’s ripping off Biggie. 

Uh... they did.  Usnavi was originally Miranda. 

I think this is less anti-vaxx and more not all vaxx though.

She is pretty religious, and there ARE vaccines that were traditionally made with porcine products, which became a whole thing for certain Jewish and Muslim communities. It’s where the vaccine resistance in those religious communities comes from, even though…

It also does not help that the last book in the series is very divisive amongst fans.  There isn’t really the kind of happy ending audiences not familiar with the book would expect, and a number of book fans would NOT want to see that. 

I just assumed that we were operating in Hollywood years - all men are playing characters 10-15 years their junior, but because they are all British no one has a skin care regime to pull that off. 

And that is nothing compared to his Broadway choices.

Yeah, there is original cast member who essentially lays out a thesis in Season 1: my job is necessary for the system to actually work. It does not depend on guilt or innocence, but on working the system.

Of course, the main lawyer probably ends up sleeping with like 3 guilty murders because he is an idiot, but that’s…