The Disposable Black Love Interest - A Tokenistic Cliché
We can spot the “Disposable Black Love Interest” character almost instantly: they’re the fleeting guest star, presented as great in theory, yet we know the main character’s not actually going to end up with them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8 Mar 202222min
How Euphoria Visualizes Feelings
When you’re a teenager everything can feel overwhelming and intense. Euphoria takes this to an extreme, communicating "emotional realism" through cinematic techniques. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
7 Mar 202221min
The Material Girl Trend - Buying Your Way to Empowerment
The Material Girl TikTok Trend can be viewed as an inclusive rallying cry for marginalized people and increasingly disenfranchised youth to declare and flaunt their fabulousness, however much material wealth they have (or don’t...). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 Mar 202217min
Unreliable Narrators - Why We Love To Be Lied To
Unreliable narrators of books, film, and TV often explore mental illness, the fickle nature of memory, and revisionist bias. And these days, it’s gotten harder and harder to trust the narrator of any story, fictional or not. This is the unreliable narrator, explained... Or is it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1 Mar 202220min
How Margot Robbie Escaped The “Bombshell Trap”
Margot Robbie has always managed to bring something extra to her "bombshell" roles, but she became a master of her own destiny and widened the range of roles available to her by developing not just as an actor but as a producer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
26 Feb 202222min
Inventing Anna - American Dream Gone Haywire
Anna Delvey embodies the 21st century American dream gone haywire in a “fake it 'till you make it” world that treats image as reality. So what lessons can we take from her playbook on how to hustle? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
24 Feb 202214min
That Girl: Turning Self-Care Into a Job
While "That Girl's" lifestyle promises shortcuts toward fulfillment, does it actually create more work, and raise expectations for women yet higher? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
22 Feb 202220min
The Imperfect Mom Onscreen - Why She Deserves to Have a Self
The Imperfect Mother is so jarring because she doesn’t fall in line with our culture’s assumption that a good mother must be selfless. The controversy around this figure reveals we haven’t come as far as we might think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
19 Feb 202222min
