Tag: lgbt

  • Saturday Poem Series 1

    Rom-Coms For Trans Boys are a religion, actually. You get the boy. He loves you back, too. You get to be his man. Grow up. Grow old. Grow younger in some magicmontage that lets you go to all the restaurantsballroomdancesnewyearspartieshotelroomsyou can stomach. (spoiler: you can stomach them all. You can vomit them back up after, …

  • Orphan Black Echoes: Review

    Nobly, I have taken one for the team.    Here’s a question which may haunt viewers of Orphan Black: Echoes more than the show’s writers: if we continue a franchise with none of the same writers or core themes, characters, and continuing plotlines, is it still the same show?   Orphan Black was firmly centred…

  • Our Flag Means Death Recap: Season Finale

    “Marriage is for old folks/cold folks/not for me!”- Nina Simone Fuck’s sake? The show took the worst route possible for a finale. The writing was choppy and uneven. Once again, I wish there was a plot– an actual plot! That wouldn’t be so hard, right? Instead of ‘just vibes’. Ed and Stede getting back together…

  • Our Flag Means Death Recap: Eps 6-7

    Boring.  I really wish I had another first thought besides that, but these episodes reminded me of why I didn’t enjoy the first season all that much. There’s a lot of things that are forgettable. Period.  Ed and Stede’s retconned personalities feel impossibly old to me. I’m not sure I can pin a defining personality…

  • Our Flag Means Death Recap: Eps 4-5

    The ladies are fighting… so is everyone else. Perhaps this time, for clarity.    Episode four and five, once again, hits us with the corporate-turned-pirate metaphors… the waters are muddled. Stede and Ed (back from the grave and ??? kinda ??? okay ??? Better than I would be after being knocked out for a day…

  • Our Flag Means Death Recap: Eps 1-3

    A recap for people who wait until late to catch up on this beloved mess of a crew… The season two open, mercifully gives Leslie Jones’ Spanish Jackie a spotlight that I hope would shine for the rest of the season, but is unlikely to (also the best part of the ghostbusters remake.) Jackie’s casual…