Editorial

What Makes ‘New Amsterdam’s’ DamFam So Great

Every aspect of New Amsterdam is only getting better and better, particularly the DamFam in season two of the NBC medical drama. Social media has affectionately dubbed the cast, crew, and fanbase of the show the “DamFam” as a sign…

Guest Post: Kate Williams, Author of ‘The Babysitters Coven’

In my first novel, The Babysitters Coven, my narrator, Esme Pearl, and her best friend Janis Jackson, are uber-fangirls. Deeply entrenched in music, movies, fashion and art, they drop references to everything from 19th-century French poets to 1970s horror flicks…

Dementors

How to Train Your Patronus – Protecting Your Spheres

Dementors first premiered in J.K Rowling’s 1999 release of the Prisoner of Azkaban. They are soulless beings who feed on the happiness of others, creating a bleak despair that is incapacitating, which is why they are used to guard the…

Keep Calm, Trope On: Jerk with a Heart of Gold

We all have our favorite and least favorite tropes. From love triangles to slow burns, tropes are often the best ways to showcase great characters and storylines. They can also be frustrating and make you question why it is even…

DC Entertainment

Supergirl’s Misguided Idea of Friendship

For a show that prides itself on depicting strong and empowering messages for its audience, Supergirl has a misguided idea of friendship. At least when it comes to Kara and Lena. You can make yourself believe anything if you try hard enough.…

Practice Self-Care: Stop Watching that Show that Makes you Angry

Practice self-care: stop watching that show that’s making you angry, you know, the one that disappointed you. You’ll be better off for it.

5 Things We Want To See In Season 10 Of ‘Blue Bloods’

I admit that I started watching Blue Bloods because of Donnie Wahlberg. Look, I love New Kids on the Block and I support most of the shit that they do. The other reason I watch? Will Estes was my first…

9 Ways To Get Your Basic Bitch On For Fall

Oh, every year I make fun of how basic I truly am, but I have to embrace it. I am the epitomy of basic and we’re heading into fall, which is every basic bitch’s favorite season. It’s the time of…

Why is “Fangirl” a Dirty Word?

Have you ever been a fan? Have you ever loved a show, movie or a book so much that you just couldn’t wait to find out what happens? Yes? Okay, so why is the term “Fangirl” (or “Fanboy”, I don’t…

Movies We Can Watch on an Endless Loop

That part of your mattress that has become a mold in the very shape of your body, your stretched out yoga pants or university sweats, your go to snack-you know, the life comforts that call your name? What’s a girl…

Give It A Chance: Bumblebee (2018)

Look, I get it. There is a Transformers fatigue in the air. Even as someone who loved the trilogy with Shia LaBeouf, I couldn’t be bothered to go see the fourth and fifth movies starring Mark Wahlberg. I’ll get around…

Our Top Quotes from 2018

Have you watched a TV show, or a movie and all the sudden found yourself stopping at a quote and going …yes! Yes! That. Have quotes touched you so deep that you made them your mantra, that’s how much you…

Our Top Fandoms of 2018

Fandoms. They make the world go round. They make us happy. They make our hearts smile and they make our hearts full. They make us angry. They make us feel. They are who we are. Narrowing down the top fandoms…

Let’s Make Some Old White People Angry: Vote

The truth of the matter is that the world has always been cruel, unkind to people of color, immigrants, those with disabilities, people in the LGBTQIA community, and women, and willing to crush anyone whose voice is not backed by…

Hope in the Age of Nilhilism

You fight, and you fight, and you crawl through hate, and you shake, and you cry, and you do everything in your power to shine a light, and then those who only care for money, for pain, for the suffering…

The Curious Case of Seth Rogen Being Hot As Hell in ‘Like, Father’

I, a Latinx queer woman, of sound mind and body, have a confession to make. It’s something dark and lustful, something I never expected would happen after Knocked Up & Pineapple Express. I, have the hots for Seth Rogen. Look,…

Arrow. Olicity

Shipper ≠ Bad Fan

Every once in a while I find myself writing things that I feel are self-explanatory. Of course, shipper does not equal bad fan. Of course shippers have as much of a right to enjoy what they enjoy as people who…

5 Things ‘The Originals’ Taught Me About Life

I’ll be honest with you – I loved every episode of The Originals, until the series finale. I debated long and hard if I would ever admit that, because the truth is – people don’t like hearing that you don’t…

FYI: Real Diversity Starts in the Writers Room

Every so often I find myself writing headlines, looking at them and thinking, well, isn’t that just obvious? Why does it even need to be said? And yet, sadly, we live in a world where they still do. This morning,…

Let’s Break Down The Reason’s Why #SaveShadowhunters Is Fighting A Losing Battle

Fans have devoted their time, money and energy to the process of “saving” tween supernatural drama Shadowhunters, yet few to none of them understand why it was cancelled, or have even a passing acquaintance with why it would be next…

Opinion: It Was Past The Time For ‘Shadowhunters’ To Be Cancelled

We’ve never made it a secret that we have some issues with Shadowhunters. Ok, we have a lot of them, if we are going to be frank. Now, before you start lecturing us about the difference between an adaptation and…

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