So many hardships for this (checks notes) scion of two billionaire families.

Yara Greyjoy as well, who took over the Iron Islands. Not just a woman too, but also LGBTQ.

Also, for all that the justified criticism that the end of Game of Thrones got, one bit that really impressed me was how it neatly sidestepped all the potential for Dany’s ending to come off as a message of “women should never have power” by also having Sansa end up in charge of the North, which is presented…

I think some of the “backlash against criticism about representation” is about the fact that it sometimes feels like it’s the only subject critics are interested in. This was, by far, the best episode of House of the Dragon. It managed to create a tension the show has been lacking, and ended with a scene where all the…

“Rhaenyra and Laenor’s coded conversation about their sexual preferences (“roast duck” versus “roast goose”) feels like a Westerosi homage to the Schitt’s Creek scene in which David Rose uses wine varietals as a metaphor for pansexuality.”

She was the best thing in No Time to Die.

Are you confusing her with Gal Godot?

“Justice for Barb. She was the star of Stranger Things because she had funky glasses and hair, and now where is she? Dead and unavenged. Sure, they had a funeral. But still, this meme still has some juice in it.”

This is a fun season in ways that were missing or lesser in S2-3, almost as much so as the first. I look forward to it closing out strong.

You’re then forgetting a part of it. Before the film came out, there was a pretty big hulabaloo, AV Club itself joining in the fray, about how this was a film that was going to glorify incels and inspire mass shootings. Note that at that point none of the people worrying about that had not seen the film and were just…

So did critics, reviewing it through a lens that the people who made it clearly weren’t touching. You really think a bunch of middle-aged men were making this movie as some sort of tribute to “incel” culture? They probably didn’t even know what that term was.

The pre-release media frenzy over the supposedly incendiary flick went well beyond simple caution, IMO. If anything, it practically dared some unhinged miscontent to do the very thing it accused the movie of glorifying - and then the movie turned out to be about a sad loser who gives his own mother a bath. And the…

Remember when there was a lot of Very Serious Discourse about how Joker was going to be a horrifically incendiary movie that would inspire a legion of psychopathic incels to go on mayhem sprees, and then it turned out to be a pretty okay flick and nothing happened?

It’s an excellent example for it. The public deserves to reclaim our modern fairy tale characters. I can’t wait til stuff like this is done with Superman & King Kong in the next decade. That’s the real reason Disney has been on a crack fiend shopping spree for new IP: they know their classic characters are finally…

Either that, or it’s based on a short story with the same title that’s linked right at the top of the article. One of the two.

What the fuck is this? This is barely even a review, it’s just pointing out that there’s Chinese and Canadian elements in it - which would be one thing if it wasn’t so poorly written! Didn’t an A mean something once?

Have you seen Robert Pattinson in any non-Twilight movies?

Yes! Thank you that slice of authentic 90’s gibberish! That was pretty much half of my conversations about music in the 90’s.

I didn’t know “beefed it” was now slang for “screwed it up.” Also, holy shit, this is among Barsanti’s worst, most snarky and awful articles. Which says a lot.