I wonder if 200 years ago, my ancestors felt there was simply too much theatre and entertainment to keep up with at the local hall?* Because right now, it seems there is too much TV for my first-world, privileged, mind. It’s a sentiment that began during 2020 when I was watching a lot in my pandemic…
Category: TV
How Sex Education gets representation right by going all the way (almost)
When I studied GCSE and A Level Media at school, a lot of the very basic curriculum, at least back then, was about representation in film and television. It was kind of bleak. We learnt how women were typically always saved by men in romantic comedies, how POC tend to be the bad guys in…
My decade of TV, musicals, books, and music
I can be really sentimental and nostalgic with certain things and, despite believing that time is a social construct and that it doesn’t really mean anything, I especially feel it at the end of the year. When it hits midnight on New Year’s Eve, I feel this big drop in my stomach. I think it’s…