"I wanted to take the trope of sex and violence that is typically lowbrow and try to do something crafty with it. Having never made a slasher movie, which are mostly people getting murdered, I wanted to do some
The show never seemed like a comedy. It’s like Seth MacFarlane didn’t think he could (or couldn’t) get a straight sci-fi adventure series approved, so he promised humor, threw in some quirky bits, and Fox marketed the show as a comedy. Overall, I think it’s been a really good...
The world of Titanfall is essentially a slightly forward-facing military trope, with the addition of giant mechs. We've already seen how this can pack a narrative punch with Titanfall 2's single-player campaign, so a TV adaptation could simply expand on that. Show us several characters with...
is having the patience and trust to wait for Linden to get there. The final episode delivers with a classic romance novel trope — the last-minute capitulation. It’s a year since they have survived their final horrific case, which includes some very bad business for which both of them hav...
This may sound odd, but I think what I like most about these heroes is that their tattoos are not part of a bad boy trope. The author goes into the meaning behind their tattoos, and they’re about the art, and I like that. My husband has four tattoos himself so I like the respect...
The “Great Replacement” message was resonating with Donald Trump supporters on Jan. 6 during the Capitol insurrection, Barton Gellman writes. In its latest incarnation, the racist trope holds that a hidden hand (often imagined as Jewish) is encouraging the invasion of nonwhite immigrants, and ...
‘enemy within’ has always been the agenda of paranoid reactionaries and is such a familiar trope that there’s really no need to list the atrocities these kinds of policies have led to throughout history. Under normal circumstances, the trans women and trans men vilified by activists and ...
Beautiful as the film version is, it leaned into the romantic trope of fate and beautiful backgrounds – and in doing so diluted the best part of Pride and Prejudice (in my opinion): the actions people have to actively take to make a love story happen. On this reread, I found the scen...
Hopefully, BookTok-ers can give their followers some sense of the highlights of any given book— trope subversion, world-building, character development, etc. However, sometimes, reviewers only mention the most basic parts of the book when there is so much more to it. On the other hand, th...
of psyches that prefer the time of their lives to the lives of their time. It boasts a deft circumvention of that tired trope polluting so many American stories of addiction: the trek from cursed to cured, from lost to loved, from breakdown to breakthrough. It also maintains an effortless...