Tár Sets a Trap for Proponents of Cancel Culture to Fall Right Into
It’s a familiar narrative in the headlines by now. “Genius” gets accused of abuse/sexual impropriety, “genius” is exiled after a snowballing of bad press and [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…]
Sabrina Carpenter’s “nonsense” and Ariana Grande’s “break up with your girlfriend, i’m bored”: A Study in Two Types of Alter Ego-Based Narcissism
To further prove that every celebrity is ultimately just in love with themselves, Sabrina Carpenter has released a video for her new single from emails [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…]
The Eras Tour and the Obvious Connection Between Presales and Selling Would-Be Elitism
As Taylor Swift reckons yet again with having the kind of clout that could invoke the swarming of various attorneys general onto Live Nation and [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…]
Millie Bobby Brown and Lindsay Lohan: A Teen Star Correlation
Being that Lindsay Lohan was the same age as Millie Bobby Brown when her career was reaching a zenith, it seems somewhat fitting (or at [Read More…]
The Anti-Capitalist Undercurrent of Enola Holmes 2
When last we left Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) in 2020, she had been effectively abandoned by her mother, Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter). Yet it [Read More…]
