the humble "like" is oft mocked despite what it does for us. "like, three people" is a vastly different statement from "three people". "and i was like 'what the fuck'" is vastly different from "and i said 'what the fuck'". i love you "like" and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight
this is mostly just silly and i’m not smart enough to write any think pieces on queer baiting or representation so please take this with one hundred grains of salt but to me nothing will be gayer than a show that aired in the early 2000s with no intentions of being gay that vehemently fights against all allegations of queerness, despite there clearly being insane chemistry between two same sex characters. like, oh these two allegedly straight characters just look at each other like that and say things like that for no reason???? you just dressed them up in gay little outfits to go on completely heterosexual dates???
hello! longtime fan and fellow massachusettsan here! something that has plagued me for years is the choice for methuen to be the setting for hill house - of all the towns in MA, what made you settle on methuen? were you trying to avoid any overtly spooky history (danvers, ipswich, andover, peabody, or any of the Old Salem area)? was it more of an aim for just an unassuming real place? i'm deeply curious!
I have family in Methuen, and spent a fair amount of time there as a kid. My father was born and raised in Gloucester, and I was born in Salem, but most of my childhood visits were to my aunts and uncles in Methuen, so that felt like a good idea for this one. I didn't want to do anything that had a spooky lore to it (Salem would have eclipsed the whole show), and this felt like a good fit.
i love that as soon as emma and regina meet they already act like a married couple going through the messiest divorce. one constantly ordering the other to leave while the other stubbornly stays out of spite, mutual threats, destroying each other's property, wearing each other's shirt. all this while full on battling for the guardianship attention of their 10 year old son.