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This post contains spoilers for Supergirl The portrayal of transgender folks in film and television is a veritable minefield of shock-mongering, well-intentioned problematics, and straight-up bigotry. It’s easy to see why many transgender folks opt to relate to the art they consume on an allegorical and symbolic level rather than a literal representational one. After all, the biggest pop cu...
It's impossible to boil down all the best shows on Paramount+. There simply are too many of them. It's an impossible task — to say nothing of a subjective one. But it's also extremely important given that Paramount+ isn't just a rebranding of CBS All Access. It's an expansion of the entirety of what's available, pulling from the entire ViacomCBS family of ...
If you only tune into The Ready Room once, now's the time if you can't wait to talk about the season finale of Star Trek: Discovery. The Ready Room is the official behind-the-scenes show Star Trek companion show. Now in its fourth season, this aftershow discusses everything from the latest episode and discusses what happens with actors and creatives from all the latest Star Trek shows.&#...
This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery. Check out our review of last week's episode here. In spite of its episode title, the season finale of Star Trek: Discovery’s third season is not really a thematic bookend to its premiere. It certainly functions as a mostly satisfactory conclusion to this season of television, albeit in a manner that has to split the bab...
This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery. Check out our review of last week's episode here. Of all the places I expected Discovery to take its penultimate episode of the season, I was not expecting it to perform an extended Die Hard riff, complete with a winking nod to John McClane in the form of Michael (Sonequa Martin-Green) losing her shoes. It’s a bizarre s...
This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery. Check out our review of last week's episode here. A pervasive worry I’ve had throughout this season is that Discovery would not be able to bridge the gap between keeping a season-long mystery going and sticking the landing with answers that were simultaneously satisfying and not explicit pandering or convenience. ȁ...
This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery. Check out our review of last week's episode here. Writing a two-part episode of a television series is a tricky business. There’s a certain weight of expectation that comes with separating the beginning and ending of your story with a week of anticipation and build-up, and Star Trek has a long history of understanding t...
Everything about The Mandalorian is beautiful. Every scene seems as if it was born from some sort of oil painting, transformed onto your screen. (And in a way, it likely was.) It has a rich history and canon in which to explore, and it has not shied away from doing so. (At time to its own detriment, perhaps.) And it has the sort of slow swagger that you don't get much these days. And you can&...
This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery. Check out our review of last week's episode here. Star Trek: Discovery’s first season peaked with its reveal of the Mirror Universe, melding the campier elements of the franchise’s classic plot device with the new show’s sinister darkness, attempting to update Trek to modernity with otherwise mixed success...
This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery. Check out our review of last week's episode here. I hate to say it, but Book might be the worst thing about this season of Star Trek: Discovery. It’s not anyone’s fault, really. David Ajala does a good job of walking the line between action bravado and empathetic environmentalism, and it’s nice to see Mich...
