Pop Culture Commentary

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HorrorHorror
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The Final Girl: How Horror’s Ultimate Survivor Became the Perfect Metaphor for Womanhood

The Final Girl: How Horror’s Ultimate Survivor Became the Perfect Metaphor for Womanhood

She runs. She bleeds. She lives. And in doing so, she tells the truth about what it means to be a girl in a world that wants you gone.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pop Culture CommentaryPop Culture Commentary
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Holy Gay Awakening, Batman: Chris O'Donnell's Robin Ruined Me in the Best Way

Holy Gay Awakening, Batman: Chris O'Donnell's Robin Ruined Me in the Best Way

Or how one sidekick in spandex unlocked my entire personality

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
HorrorHorror
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Toni Collette Was F**king Robbed: How the Oscars Failed Hereditary (and Horror Itself)

Toni Collette Was F**king Robbed: How the Oscars Failed Hereditary (and Horror Itself)

One of the most haunting, harrowing, and fully possessed performances of the century—and the Academy couldn’t even give her a nomination.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Sex EducationSex Education
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Gen Z’s TV Trauma: Are We Healing, Numbing Out, or Just Not Talking About It?

Gen Z’s TV Trauma: Are We Healing, Numbing Out, or Just Not Talking About It?

Or a breakdown of how today’s shows handle trauma and what that says about us now.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pedro PascalPedro Pascal
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A Fantastic Reset: Marvel’s Kindest Team Returns

A Fantastic Reset: Marvel’s Kindest Team Returns

Or Four Heroes, Zero Cynicism, All Heart

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pop Culture CommentaryPop Culture Commentary
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Every Character in The Mummy Is Bisexual

Every Character in The Mummy Is Bisexual

Or come for the archaeology, stay for the bisexual energy

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pop Culture CommentaryPop Culture Commentary
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Frodo & Samwise sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g...

Frodo & Samwise sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g...

Best friends going on a hike to destroy some jewellery? Yeah, right.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pop Culture CommentaryPop Culture Commentary
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Bury Your Gays: The Deadly Cost of Queer Representation

Bury Your Gays: The Deadly Cost of Queer Representation

Or how your fave came out, found love, and then died 20 minutes later. Coincidence?

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pop Culture CommentaryPop Culture Commentary
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Grief, Guilt and the Cost of Power: How Charmed Devastates with 2-Parter 'Awakened' and 'Astral Monkey'

Grief, Guilt and the Cost of Power: How Charmed Devastates with 2-Parter 'Awakened' and 'Astral Monkey'

Or when Piper nearly dies, magic intervenes—and everything breaks.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
James GunnJames Gunn
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Hope, Capes, and One Very Good Boy: Superman (2025) Gave Me the Feelings I Didn’t Know I Needed

Hope, Capes, and One Very Good Boy: Superman (2025) Gave Me the Feelings I Didn’t Know I Needed

This is not your gritty reboot. This is the Superman we’ve been waiting for.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pop Culture CommentaryPop Culture Commentary
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This Isn’t Just Camp — It’s Cathedral

This Isn’t Just Camp — It’s Cathedral

Why Jawbreaker, Cruel Intentions, and Wild Things Deserve the Criterion Treatment

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
The Last of UsThe Last of Us
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From Charmed Trauma to Wheel of Time Triumph

From Charmed Trauma to Wheel of Time Triumph

A gay millennial’s emotional audit of the messy, magical women who raised us—and the ones finally allowed to thrive

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt