Ok but Never Have I Ever and Ms. Marvel are good, and Velma was bad

“But Velma’s can’t be BROWN!!!” hasn’t factored into it.

Minority-created media should be allowed to be mediocre or worse and we move along the same way as with something created by a straight white guy, instead of having to write some article like this defending it when there are plenty of South Asian-featuring media on TV right now that critics and audiences agree are…

Two things can be true:

Most of the criticism I’ve seen of Velma has run along the lines of it being smug, mean-spirited, and not nearly as smart as it thinks…with the related criticism that the Scooby Doo connection only exists because the show wasn’t good enough to be made on its own merits.

While they can speak to similar issues of representation, I’m not sure Azaria voicing Apu (and the question of whether voice actors need to match, loosely or precisely, the ethnicity or background of their characters) actually relates much to changing the backgrounds or traits of a live action character (you could be…

I brought this up here with House of the Dragon and the discourse around, anyone who thinks gay characters dying = the “bury your gays” trope needs to read The Celluloid Closet or watch the equaling good documentary based on it.

While “bury your gays” exists as far back as works of 18th Century literature, it was coined…

As a queer person, I didn’t read it as a Bury Your Gays at all – they didn’t die because of homophobic brutality or tragedy, they died because they were old and content, it’s really the most beautiful, sweet, and sad episode of TV I’ve seen in a long time.

“the director of the episode—none other than co-executive producer and creator of the game himself, Neil Druckmann—had the audacity to film it as an almost dreamy, romantic moment between Tess and the infected host.”

Common anti-fungals are used only topically for surface infections. There are very, very few anti-fungal medications available today that are effective on internal fungal infections because the biology of human cells is much more similar to fungi than that of bacteria. Due to this, it’s very difficult to find…

You have eleven people unaccounted for that might be infected, one dead, and the original host still at large. Given that those infected start trying to each other, I imagine see saw exactly the kind of chaos that happened in the premier in her head, and realized it was too late to do anything.

Alice in Borderlands is OK. Really don’t think it is in the same class as Squid Game (see the comparison a lot) but the first season was decently fun to watch. I do think the direction is really heavy-handed with a lot of games and scenes dragged out - it has the pacing of a bad anime at times, with characters emoting…

Fuuuuuuck that

In one particularly glaring incident, multiple writers say that Weinberg participated in a bit in the workplace on a “national rape day,” or a day where men could “rape whoever they wanted.” Then ensued a long conversation on who the male writers would rape if given the chance. When one woman writer pushed back…

Not that I think the Austin Powers movies were any particularly high moment in the history of cinema, but I think at least there they were parodying the Bond films, where the female leads change every film with almost no explanation.

Teen? Macchio was 28!

I doubt very much she’s dead.

I’ll take that scene 100x before having to watch the Ceserean section from the first episode again.

After giving it much thought, I’ve come to the conclusion that Ser Criston might have an anger issue.

People with $50,000 to spare (giving $11,000 of that directly to the Nepali government just for the license to climb) is presently one of the main economic engines of the country of Nepal, one of the world's poorest, prettiest, and least-develloped but most-accessible trekking mountains. I hope that ridiculous Humans…