Author: Elaine Atwell
Why I Must Reject Your Baby Pictures
Hi, thanks so much for submitting your baby pictures to social media! Unfortunately, I’m unable to like them at this time. Normally, I just send out form rejection letters, but since you and I know each other personally, I felt I at least owed you an explanation. I can’t bring myself to click that little…
Jane The Virgin’s Queer Storyline Is Doing Everything Right
When I first heard that Jane The Virgin’s Petra Solano was entering into a queer relationship Jane Ramos, a character played by Rosario Dawson, I thought I had slipped free from our dreadful reality and entered a better timeline. Sadly, the ice caps are still melting and the abscess is still President, but this tiny…
Riverdale Recap 2.14 Simon Says Slow Down
Hello and welcome back to Riverdale! Whole White House careers have begun and ended since the last time we ventured to the maple-lined streets of our favorite blood-spattered small town, but the second I heard someone say “Papa Poutine’s murder” with a straight face, I knew we were home. This episode is classic Riverdale in…
QUIZ: Should You Watch Altered Carbon?
Riverdale Recap 2.13 Bleach Blonde, Blood Red
Riverdale Recap 2.12: Bittersweet Poutine
Heya folks, and welcome back to Riverdale. I’m sorry this recap is late, but I was struggling mightily to articulate exactly why the past two episodes have ranked as failures in my book; to describe the ways they failed. Was it Riverdale’s tendency to start with an idea for an elaborate set piece and then…
Why Dumbledore’s Straightwashing Hurts So Much
This week, Entertainment Weekly released an interview with David Yates, director of Fantastic Besats and Where to Find Them, and its upcoming sequel, The Crimes of Grindelwald, in which he revealed how his next film planned to address Albus Dumbledore’s sexuality. This kind of coy, “not explicitly” language is a reminder that when it comes to…