The first season of Netflix original ANOTHER LIFE has launched! I was lucky enough to work as a story editor on the first season, and being part of a sci-fi series has always been a dream since I was a wee little nerd. Space ships! Aliens! Intense interpersonal relationships! Plus, the show stars BATTLESTAR GALACTICA…
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Slasher: Solstice on NETFLIX
Exciting news! The newest season of Netflix’s anthology horror series SLASHER is released today and… I wrote the sixth episode! Woo hoo! It was a fantastic experience, with an incredible cast bringing the whole enterprise to life, and shepherded by smarter minds than me. I am deeply grateful to be a part of the process,…
Flare Magazine: “There Can Be No Happy Ending for Game of Thrones”
Hey! Long time, no see. As is the way with these things (namely, unmonetized blogs), it can be hard to update while you hustle. And hustle I have! Lots of exciting stuff to talk about in the weeks to come. But in the meantime, here is an article I did for FLARE Magazine about the…
Melodrama as Revolution
This past May, I saw the Broadway production of Mart Crowley’s seminal queer classic The Boys in the Band at Booth Theater in New York City. And then, this June, I saw FX’s Pose, a new drama series about NYC ball culture in the eighties. You’re probably wondering why I’ve mentioned these two seemingly unrelated things in close…
The End of Endings
Remember the poster for Six Feet Under‘s final season? The show’s trademark hearse, riding into the sunset, with “Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends.” beneath it? It was a bold statement, and one that not only restated the series’ theme, but also prepared viewers for both the conclusion to the series AND the main characters’ lives. Definitive….
Nostalgia Is A Drug
It really bugs me that there is now a backlash over The Last Jedi being a film that upends series mythology when so many Star Wars fans were critical of The Force Awakens being too derivative of A New Hope. I mean, fandoms are a fickle bunch, but… for real? You’re going to toss this…
The Past Must Die
The Last Jedi is a fascinating film. It is definitely one of the most artful blockbusters I have ever seen, with some truly astounding visuals. I mean, there’s this: And this: And this: It’s clear Rian Johnson took his time to not only revisit the rules set up by George Lucas all those years ago,…
Batman Gets Hitched
Remember when I made that whole post about the relationship between Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle? And I unpacked the brilliant ballroom scene from Batman Returns, but used it as a way to illustrate their perfect-but-imperfect love and how it played a formative role in my development as a young gay male? I even said…
The Blissful Melancholy of BoJack Horseman
On paper, BoJack Horseman seems somewhat derivative. A Hollywood satire about a faded sitcom star hoping to reclaim former glories? That’s HBO’s The Comeback. An alcoholic haunted by his past and locked in a cycle of self-destructive behaviour that impacts his loved ones and coworkers? That’s AMC’s Mad Men. A mature animated series featuring an…
The Ballad of Bruce and Selina
Batman Returns has always been a pretty singular film for me. Even after a film studies degree, a few years kicking around the industry, and a mental back catalogue of countless art films, I still hold it in incredibly high regard. It could be that I saw it as a kid, squished into a packed theatre…
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