At Slate, Isaac Butler writes about the GALA Committee’s In The Name Of The Place, an art project in which they literally placed activist art in the 1990s night time soap, Melrose Place. “Over Melrose Place’s fourth and fifth seasons, the GALA Committee wound up smuggling more than […]
At Vulture, Angelica Jade Bastién has some thoughts about camp and gender. “At times, camp can feel like a suffocating label. Its proponents often misconstrue the fact that recreating oneself as a character is not merely an aesthetic for women, but rather, for many, a matter of survival. […]
Angela Englert accidentally fed her mogwai after midnight, so she’s going to be afk this month. In the meantime, please enjoy this look back at MR James’s classic Christmas ghost stories, and with any luck, she’ll be back in the new year. Or something will. Imagine, if you […]
At Vulture, Savannah Salazar writes about tv series’ recent murkiness. “Aside from ‘Why’s everything so expensive?’ the biggest complaint of the streaming era may be ‘Why’s everything so dark?’ The budgets of television shows have skyrocketed in recent years, so why is it often such a struggle to […]
Listen to friends of the Gutter Emily Intravia and Christine Makepeace as they catch up with all their end of summer viewing! “It’s been a long summer, so naturally, Christine and Emily are here to discuss it in movie (and TV) language! On their latest epic catchup, the […]
At The New Yorker, Inkoo Kang writes about turbulence in Hollywood. “To survey the film and television industry today is to witness multiple existential crises. Many of them point to a larger trend: of Hollywood divesting from its own future, making dodgy decisions in the short term that […]
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