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Discussion of 90s erotic thrillers doesn't emphasize enough that a lot of them were written by one guy, who speedran his way from being the highest paid screenwriter in history to becoming Catholic & moving to Ohio

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Rest in Peace, Andre Braugher.

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I'm still on self-imposed pause while I let some injuries heal up, I couldn't miss celebrating Calypso's Birthday!! She deserves the WORLD!!

Something about the pure gender joy of this absolutely lights up my soul. Gender is somehow such a controversial issue right now - when it's really just about expression and celebration of the divine self! Seeing Wee Jon have this glorious moment, and knowing the sincerity Kristian Nairn brought to this character, is just elevated to something so personal and dear to me. This wasn't a punchline, this wasn't a throwaway little inside joke from a panel, this was Calypso's birth and I'm so fucking happy she's here.

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Considering all the viral attention given to Drew Carey over his support of striking writers, it kind of sucks that The Drew Carey Show isn't streaming anywhere, except the first season

In fact, only the first season was ever released on DVD, too, due to music rights. Which sucks bc if you never saw it, or don't remember it, The Drew Carey Show was not some Home Improvement esque stand-up sitcom hackjob. It was a proto-Community prone to surreal gimmicks and wacky special episodes. These included "spot the mistakes!" episodes and improvisational crossovers with Whose Line, but also "after an office prank, Drew wakes up in China" (filmed on location in China), "Rocky Horror vs Priscilla Queen of the Desert drag danceoff musical number", and "the gang descends into a science lab to save a dog & come across mutants and strange experiments". It seemed weirder than something like Community though bc it was rooted so heavily in mundane 90s blue collar workcom aesthetics, then it would reveal the guy-of-the-week the female lead was dating was literally the Devil

Anyway the only way to watch anything but the first season is piracy, and likely always will be. Fun!

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Okay so I dunno about the elevator shaft but I don't think anyone poisoned Ben Glenroy. It was clear he had trouble controlling his impulses around cookies in particular. I'm thinking he threw out the cookies to stop himself from eating them, they mingled with some of the rat poison Mabel found this episode and then he ate them anyway, poisoning himself.

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I just watched Hot Fuzz again and I need to talk about it.

The writers for Hot Fuzz have said several times that Nicolas originally had a female love interest but she took up too much time without being connected to the murder plot so they removed her completely and instead gave her core dialogue and scenes to Danny, making him the love interest.

The movie constantly makes connections between Danny and Nicolas’ ex-girlfriend. For example, she complained about Nicolas forgetting her birthday so later on Nicolas panics when nobody told him it was Danny’s birthday. She told him he has to find someone he can love more than work and by the end he chose Danny over working in London. He gifts Danny flowers and wins him a stuffed toy. They spend the night out together followed by Danny inviting Nicolas home. They have a romantic theme that only plays during their emotional scenes. We even see the exact moment Nicolas realise he’s in love with Danny when the old lady asks if he’s buying flowers for a special someone and he says “….Yes” with a shy little smile.

The only thing missing is an actual kiss but in the Cornetto trilogy romantic relationships are rarely sealed with a kiss. In Shaun of The Dead the main romantic couple Shaun and Liz never kissed once and they had as much physical contact as Nicolas and Danny.

It’s funny to watch this movie and realise it has more queer content than some more modern movies and shows that are hailed as good queer media.

Like, I’ve never heard anyone accuse Hot Fuzz of queerbaiting but because it treats Nicolas and Danny’s relationship the same way most movies treat straight romances in the genre (it was literally originally written as a straight romance) people just didn’t notice it was a queer movie or thought it was a joke on homoerotic buddy cop movies. If it came out today it would absolutely be on the queer movie list.

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I’m gonna be honest and this is purely as a matter of taste and not about other issues pertaining to it but I think five seasons is a perfectly fine soft-limit for shows involving a continuous narrative. Stuff you can watch random episodes of like episodic conflict-of-the-week stuff, docu-series, game shows etc are different (and maybe an exception for book adaptations that use a season=book format) but like I remember when Breaking Bad ended as season 5 and people widely praised that as a show of restraint from the creators and the network because they could’ve easily milked it for two or three more seasons and the show would’ve suffered for it like has happened many times before. 2-3 seasons is way to short of a soft limit but 5 sounds fair

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Javi deserved better

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If anyone can play the hallucinated personification of a beloved pet parrot named after a maligned Roman emperor it's John Cameron Mitchell.

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The soundtrack for this season of Ted Lasso is on point!

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I truly can't wait to find out why Higgins is going to the red light district.

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Okay but what if it wasn't underlined OR crossed out but a secret third thing? (he left it ambiguous on purpose to fuck with people after he died)

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you know what, i am right and im tired of pretending i am not

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male gaze is not 'when person look sexy' or 'when misogynist make film'

death of the author is not 'miku wrote this'

I don't think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what's in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it's utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn't mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot' - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn't intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it's worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it's there.' it's important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it's important to be able to tell the difference.

male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn't mean 'finding a lady sexy' or 'looking with a sexual lens', it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it's important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can't get a grip on male gaze beyond 'sexual imagery', you're really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.

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The ooh daddy story 😵‍💫