The Biggest Hollywood Clichés - What’s Really Behind Them
So often stories resort to lazy, easy shortcuts we’ve seen a million times before. When are they effective or timeless, and when is this just a boring lack of imagination? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
13 Sep 202210min
Succession - The Strange Tragedy of Roman Roy
Roman Roy is an exhibitionist, but his kinkiness doesn’t just make him a memorable treat of a character. His particular perversities outline the Roy family’s psychological pitfalls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10 Sep 202216min
Sydney Sweeney - The Serious Sex Symbol for Gen Z
Sydney Sweeney is putting a Gen Z stamp on the sex symbol. Here's our Take on how Sydney has deconstructed and rebuilt the sex symbol in a more serious way: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8 Sep 20229min
How We Overcorrected the Damsel in Distress Trope
The damsel in distress character has fallen majorly out of fashion – and for good reason – but have we overcorrected against her? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6 Sep 202214min
The Bad Female Leader - Why Film and TV are Obsessed With Her
Why is Hollywood so against women being in charge? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 Sep 202214min
Nepo Babies are the symbol of our broken meritocracy
Nepo babies are everywhere in entertainment these days – from Maude Apatow to Dakota Johnson to Nicolas Cage, one of your favorite actors is probably related to the Hollywood elite. So what do these stars really say about inequality in entertainment, and in America more broadly? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1 Sep 202212min
Girls' Hannah - Why the millennial antihero was so hated
Hannah on Girls was widely deemed one of the most annoying TV characters of the 2010s, but was she just misunderstood? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
30 Aug 202212min
The "Dead Girl" Story - Why It's Dangerous to Simplify Her
So many stories center around the mystery of a beautiful dead girl who is often flattened into a symbol and treated as a mystery to be solved. Here’s our take on the dead girl story, and the loss she really represents in our culture: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
27 Aug 202213min
