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The “Steven Universe” Movie Reminds Us That Change is the Only Path to Growth
There are few cartoons—few series as a whole—as impactful as Steven Universe.
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Scared Silly: Jenny Slate’s “Stage Fright” Gives New Meaning to the Phrase “Standing up to Fear”
Stage Fright is a distillation of how we live with and confront fear, and the lifelong process—and joy—of overcoming it.
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On “90 Day Fiancé,” Love Is a Form of Capital
90 Day Fiancé exposes the attitudes and practices that have foreground America’s history of anti-immigrant sentiment, nativism, racism, and xenophobia.
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What the Styling of Good Janet on “The Good Place” Shows about Sexist Character Design
With Good Janet versus Bad Janet, The Good Place uses fashion to signify goodness.
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On Becoming a Fraud in Central Florida
The show offers a sharp critique of the broader capitalist system that harms us all.
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In the End, BoJack Heals—but at Whose Expense?
Season 6’s second half twists into the show’s usual darkness when we transition to the perspectives of the women BoJack has harmed.
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On Soap Operas, Rape Is Still Treated as a Crime of Lust and Passion
Soap writers are far from blameless when it comes to perpetuating rape myths.
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Overstating Ohio: How “Law & Order: SVU” Increased Stigma about Abortion Bans
Evangeline’s story is more common than SVU would have us believe.
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99 Percent Savior: In Contemporary Horror, It’s the Final Girl versus the Rich
The Final Girl is no longer a babysitter or camp counselor, but a working-class outsider to wealth and decadence who is treated as an exploitable object to be lured in with money.
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(Not So) Real Monsters: Why Do We Still Care about Ted Bundy?
What is there to learn from a serial killer who, like almost all notorious serial killers, is white, male, and wholly mediocre?
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