Hooked on Bad Sisters, Sharon Horgan can ✨write ✨

Review of Kathryn Haywood's amusing show which played at.Etcetera Theatre, Camden. Next stop, New York!

i like shows where the protagonist is a girl and she has a best friend that's a girl and they're friends. honesly that shit rules

i saw that review on letterboxd of all the rhetorical questions for barbie and like… the more i think abt it, the more i’m certain that the review’s author fundamentally misunderstood the film. barbie land is not a utopia in the way that adults would think abt a utopia, like the author seems to imply… barbie land is canonically shaped by little girls playing with their dolls. that’s why we see a supreme court. thats why there are nobel prizes and authors and lawyers (also because that’s how the toys are marketed… would there be a mermaid in ur utopia??? there would be in mine!). that’s why barbie and ken don’t necessarily know what a boyfriend and girlfriend are “meant” to do (not to mention that the author’s assumption that sex is fundamental to a romantic relationship is problematic at best). that’s why barbie is indifferent to ken (i personally had the life size barbie and my sister had the barbie dream house—we had the working woman barbie game, i had the genie barbie gameboy game, we had countless barbie dolls; we didn’t own a single ken doll lol). barbie land is a world created by and for little girls as they play with their dolls (she says in a comment on the original post “don’t little girls play with their dolls in a sexual way?” and yeah, sure, some do. but i didn’t and i’m sure there are others who didn’t… just like there are some girls who completely mutilated their own dolls and made them into horrifying creatures)… that’s why stereotypical barbie starts having an existential crisis—because a grown woman begins to play with her doll again and starts reshaping barbie land… we, as the audience, are meant to understand this as an outlier to how barbie land is canonically created. the author also calls ken “crass” and “slovenly”… maybe after he builds the patriarchy in barbie land he becomes “crass” but i wouldn’t call him slovenly at any point in the film (i suppose this is just semantics tho).

also, please stop saying that barbie land is a reversal of the real world. it isn’t, even if that may have been the filmmakers intentions. again, barbie is indifferent to ken. she does not abuse him, she does not treat him like he exists to service her by cooking or cleaning or providing other favors for her… barbie does not oppress ken in the way that men oppress women in the real world (we have no idea if he owns property or where he lives and she doesn’t seem to particularly care—extremely different from the fact that women couldn’t have their own bank accounts or credit cards, get a mortgage on their own or divorce their husbands through no fault divorce until the second half of the 20th century in the us… within a lot of our mothers and grandmothers lifetimes!!!!) and it is a complete disservice to conflate or equate the two. we actually see barbie drawing clear boundaries around her time and space in regards to ken—this is not a reversal of misogyny as women and girls experience it in the real world, by any stretch of the imagination.

is the film perfect or revolutionary or radical? of course not. it was produced by major studios and corporations in hollywood. of course the barbie movie is a fucking commercial for barbie, like… to expect anything different is just extremely dumb on your part if u saw the trailer, saw the marketing, saw the interviews, bought a ticket, and sat ur ass in the theater, like be fuckin serious. but don’t do women and girls a disservice by discrediting the world and thoughts and ideas it could open up for them by seeing themselves be taken seriously on screen in a major summer blockbuster with stupid fucking questions because u want to feel superior to everyone else because YOU and ONLY YOU see through the capitalist marketing of lipstick pop girlboss feminism (especially when juxtaposed with the way the female characters are treated in oppenheimer, which we cannot help but compare to the barbie film with the viral marketing of barbenheimer).

*sees the chibi ladybug is sold out while the cn one is still available* Nature is healing ☺️

i desperately need to see the most toxic unhealthy codependent lesbian romance with the most complex and dark female characters on my screen right this second or i will die

what do you mean that rgu, the show everyone claims is so much more feminist than torture porn male gazey pmmm, which is bad bc it was directed by a man which means its for men apparently so none of its messages abt misogyny are worth taking seriously…….. was also written by a man.

A Marya spinoff definitely could have been something

used to pray for times like this.

Another hazbin oc idea i have is a descendant of cain who wants to destroy heaven and hell because their family's been rejected by both, but later has a change of heart (hi charlie) and becomes the hotel's gardener.

Netflix’s Cancels ‘Warrior Nun,’ Its Highest Audience-Scored Series Ever, For Reasons

I'm gonna kill myself. I fucking hate it here

So like. Is Yellowjackets just Lord of The Flies: girl version?

I think I'm in shock about Paper Girls. Like I feel like I'm gonna throw up.

Same. There are so many layers to how I feel about it. Furious, to start. It was SO well-received, by critics and fans alike; the problem was marketing. The Twitter tag is full of people who didn’t even realize it was a show until it was cancelled. Hell, I didn’t know it was happening until a trailer hit my dash by chance like a month before it dropped. Apart from the SDCC panel (which, let’s be honest, I’m the right kind of nerd to have noticed, but lots of viewers wouldn’t have known about), it got very little promotion. Which like. Bro. It’s been out less than 50 days. Fifty days to give a first season before you take it out back and shoot it? That’s madness. I said it in my other post, and I’ll say it again: giving a show 3 weeks to hit (and having sky-high perimeters for what “counts”) is a one-way ticket to killing art. It gives no time for growth, for it to find its audience. It kills me how little streaming cares for shows.

Then there’s just the devastation of having this gorgeous, character-driven show with Chinese, Black, Jewish lesbian, and masc lesbian rep, and KNOWING they had a plan. There was so much love in every frame. These girls knew their characters backwards and forwards. They were so lived-in, so authentic. And the fact that Amazon couldn’t bother giving them even just two seasons (which I do believe would have been enough to get the whole story out, if they knew they had only that)? After a competitive bidding war to get the rights in the first place?? Fuck that noise.

Genuinely, I am on my knees for Legendary to successfully sell it to another distributor. It’s a good sign that they instantly got the rights back and announced they were shopping it, but they shouldn’t have had to. If you option the rights to a pre-existing IP, you ought to believe in it enough to let it run a minimum of two seasons. This show is a fucking gem. It’s beloved. It’s just that it got drowned by lack of marketing, another “similar audience” show dropping immediately after (and don’t get me started on how it feels like they pit a historical queer sports show against a coming of age time travel show—two completely different genres that shouldn’t HAVE to compete), and Amazon giving all their money and attention to their New Big Thing. It deserves so much better. I’m so. So upset about this.

honestly speaking, rand ridley might be my favorite villain/character in a while. apart from contributing a lot to the main humor, its the fact that his self centered/narcissm personality is well, realistic? ngl many times media portray the self-centered/narcissm as either a cold, stoic guy who doesn't say much but is smart OR a foul mouthed/big personality guy who isnt smart and is just that way due to how they were raised. rand is an asshole who is smart, which makes up the root of his narcissm, but dresses and acts as your average slacker, which helps masks his god complex/narcissm.

just thought I'd let you know you have inspired me to watch the old bwbdubs episodes o7

another ask i am apologetic to realize i only dreamt responding to. first of all what a fucking honor godspeed soldier o7 is really the only response.

second of all, this may be undermined by my delayed response but pleaseeeeeee feel free to yell at me abt it. i've watched, frankly, very little of s1 and a lot of s2 doesn't hold up but i watched it and loved it anyway and that experience of it being both so dated + not great in a timeless way + really neat to see the history of minecraft (PEEP SHOW BLEED IN REPRESENT!!!!! ANYBODY.... anybody.......... anybody care abt peep show............) & bdubs' whole going to hibernate to grow as a builder thing & his very kind of shockingly too much openness abt his own anxieties & vulnerabilities & just. i love him. i do. it's bad don't watch it but if you do don't you love him so much omg someone else who might know........

anway thanks. i'm so so so so sorry. email me forever.

finished lltg… my heart is full and empty at the same time