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Clea Duvall and Natasha Lyonne gaze at each other in a dance club in this still from But I’m a Cheerleader!.

Does This Dress Make Me Look Straight

By Maddi Chilton • December 3rd, 2025

Walking away from the practice of homogenous heterosexual cohesion is just as legitimate as walking towards it.

Exploits Feature

A Muppet Family Christmas

By Sara Clemens • December 1st, 2025

A Christmas special to make the heart hurt.

Totally Generic
Wendy runs through the red-lit bowels of a crashed spaceship in this still from Alien: Earth.

Alien: Earth

By Natasha Ochshorn • November 11th, 2025

It’s difficult to be scared of something that you’re maybe rooting for.

Exploits Feature

Andor

By Van Dennis • November 3rd, 2025

You are never safe from Imperial disposability.

Noah's Beat Box
A close-up on the adorable face of the red panda from Pixar's Turning Red, looking at herself in a mirror.

Turning Time

By Noah Springer • October 15th, 2025

Maybe it was those Santa Ana winds driving me insane, or maybe it was the hefty dose of edibles I just scarfed down, but I swore I was back in St. Louis just seconds ago.

Totally Generic
Poster art for High School Musical, featuring a group of teenagers leaping in front of red stage curtains, frozen in mid-air with huge smiles plastered on their faces.

High School Musical and the Gaslighting of America’s Youth

By Natasha Ochshorn • October 10th, 2025

What makes streaming different than past revised mediums is that when changes are made, there may be no older physical model to compare it to.

A screenshot from The Devil's Plan where a hex grid of letters on the left shows a correct answer played and the player on the right with his eyes closed and a look of relief on his face

Wiring Games for Lightbulb Moments – The Power of Realization over Revelation

By Jonathan Fenn • September 24th, 2025

Invoking this feeling doesn’t need to be built up over many hours to work, it can also be distilled to one delightful moment.

Totally Generic
Carrie sits across from a giant stuffed toy with a huge tomato for a head at a Japanese restaurant in a scene from And Just Like That.

I’m So Bored, I Could Die

By Natasha Ochshorn • September 16th, 2025

And Just Like That… is a show that often feels in my brain the same way scrolling on the internet does.

A screenshot from Severance where a man with curly silver hair and a moustache is looking back over his shoulder at the viewer with a slight smile on his face

Orpheus in Lumon: The Act of Looking Back in Severance

By Vehe Mently • August 27th, 2025

Memory is the crux of the question of identity in Severance.

A screenshot from Power Rangers where Blue Ranger billy is out of uniform fighting baddies in a California park in a defensive stance blue flannel and glasses as his blond hair blows in the wind

Shades of Blue (Ranger)

By Alex J. Tunney • August 7th, 2025

Simple is a great starting point, a good shortcut. 

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