“If the writers can tamp down the earnestness, Good Trouble’s inclusive themes will make even more of an impact.”
Read More“WandaVision doesn't grasp gender or racial representation as well as it thinks it does.”
Read More“It feels gross to watch flat characters of color fawn over John Walker, yet another ‘flawed but complex’ white man in the MCU.”
Read More“Lovecraft Country wears its progressivism like a costume.”
Read More“Evil centers a trio of religious minorities—an atheist, a Muslim, and a Catholic—whose heated but respectful debates form some of the show’s most compelling scenes.”
Read More“Succession deftly critiques white feminism as anything but radical.”
Read More“Indian Matchmaking inadvertently promotes the very ideologies it aims to critique.”
Read More“I have a hugely problematic fave, and that fave is BL.”
Read More“The Mandalorian continues Star Wars' penchant for creating worlds that are overwhelmingly populated by men.”
Read More“The aspirations of Hollywood feel genuine, yet glaring moments of oversight make it hard to fully embrace.”
Read More“Love, Victor centers characters of color, but never quite digs into what that means.”
Read More“Westworld’s third season tried to say ‘the future is female,’ but undermines its own messaging.”
Read More“The only queer person we see in Love is Blind oscillates between toxic masculinity and emotional instability.”
Read More“Never Have I Ever perplexingly dabbles in casual Islamophobia, ableism, and fatphobia.”
Read More“British Asian actor Sacha Dhawan shines as Orlo, a career bureaucrat in Peter’s inner circle.”
Read More“You walks a fine line between calling attention to an abhorrent issue and accidentally glamorizing it.”
Read More“Dickinson challenges our straight-washing of history and allows for nuanced takes on love and attraction.”
Read More“Bled dry, Criminal Minds slipped away from its television bonds, off to the big TiVo in the sky.”
Read More“The women of The Terror: Infamy feel clumsily sketched.”
Read More“Groundbreaking in its own right, Generation Q still struggles to integrate its original cast members into a modern show that’s more inclusive of real women.”
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