Category: Television
Tanya/Victoria: Jennifer Coolidge’s Pattern of Walking In On People She’s Not Supposed to See Having Sex
The line should no longer be, “A guy walks into a bar…” so much as, “Jennifer Coolidge’s character walks in on someone having better sex [Read More…]
Mother of the Misery Chicks: Wednesday Addams As the Forebear for Emily the Strange and Daria
There’s an episode in season one of Daria called “The Misery Chick.” In it, a former quarterback/golden boy who attended Lawndale High, Tommy Sherman, is [Read More…]
Softcore Gloom: The Gentrification of Wednesday Addams Includes Nods to Charmed, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Gilmore Girls and Harry Potter
Maybe it seems ironic to say that the character of Wednesday Addams has been “gentrified,” considering she’s no longer white. And sure, in Jenna Ortega’s [Read More…]
With A Callback to Addams Family Values, Wednesday Prompts Thanksgiving Revelers to Remember That It’s Still “Pilgrim World”
Being that Wednesday has arrived to Netflix just in time to capture the “Thanksgiving spirit,” it’s clearly no coincidence that, in episode three of the [Read More…]
Diana Is Saintly No More After Some Pronounced Charles Ass-Licking in The Crown Season 5
The unspoken norm, especially when it involves the martyrdom that comes with being dead, is that no one should speak ill of Princess Diana. Who [Read More…]
Unclear Why It’s Called AHS: NYC and Not AHS: AIDS
At a Pride performance called Finally Enough Love (in honor of the remix album of the same name) back in June, Madonna quipped, “One of the reasons [Read More…]
She-Hulk: Attorney-at-Law Bites Back at the Incel Demographic That Would Condemn It
While many (men) were quick to dismiss She-Hulk: Attorney-at-Law as yet another attempt on Marvel’s part to “feminize” and “ethnify” everything, anyone willing to look [Read More…]
The Eloi and Morlocks Representing the Outies and Innies of Severance
It’s something, to be sure, that everyone has thought about, in one form or another. The idea of being able to get “another person” to [Read More…]
House of Hammer: Sociopathy Is in the Blood, Or: The “Pratfalls” of Privilege Only Seem to Hurt Others
In every fucked-up family, perhaps somebody finally has to be the one to stand up and say, “Enough.” Usually, that person is a woman and, [Read More…]
The Correlative Qualities of The Sandman’s “Dream of a Thousand Cats” and “Calliope” With Regard to Enslavement by a Self-Appointed Oppressor
Having worked as a staff writer on a number of other episodes from The Sandman’s first season, Catherine Smyth-McMullen has taken the helm for a [Read More…]
