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Pop Culture Commentary

Longform analysis of TV, film, and fandom that treats emotional impact, subtext, and cultural meaning as the main event.


Saltburn Was Never About Whether Oliver Quick Is a Villain

Saltburn Was Never About Whether Oliver Quick Is a Villain

On how the discourse arrived before most people had finished watching it.

Jul 12, 2026

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6 min read

Sexistential, by Robyn

Sexistential, by Robyn

On not dancing through it anymore

Jun 28, 2026

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3 min read

We Grew Up on Sarcasm and Soft Sad Boys

We Grew Up on Sarcasm and Soft Sad Boys

On emotional repression, mid-2000s masculinity, and why we wanted men to feel quietly and then stop talking

May 24, 2026

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4 min read

ERotic Tension: Why ER Was Gayer Than Grey’s Anatomy

ERotic Tension: Why ER Was Gayer Than Grey’s Anatomy

Doctors, corridors, frantic trauma bonding — every hallway smoulder was homoerotic.

May 17, 2026

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4 min read

I Didn't Watch "That's My Dog." I Survived It.

I Didn't Watch "That's My Dog." I Survived It.

Revisiting Six Feet Under's most harrowing episode, and why its portrait of queer vulnerability still refuses to fade twenty years on

May 3, 2026

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7 min read

What Australian TV Actually Knows About Queerness

What Australian TV Actually Knows About Queerness

On thirty years of almost-seeing, and the distance still to travel

Apr 29, 2026

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6 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Euphoria Without Degrassi: The Next Generation

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Euphoria Without Degrassi: The Next Generation

Same kids, same wreckage. One just had a bigger lighting budget.

Apr 26, 2026

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3 min read

They Trusted Us With the Truth

They Trusted Us With the Truth

On Captain Planet, Animorphs, and the shows that believed children could handle real stakes

Apr 23, 2026

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7 min read

Twenty Years. Twenty Minutes. Julianne Moore.

Twenty Years. Twenty Minutes. Julianne Moore.

Children of Men kills its most important character early. The rest of the film is the cost of that decision

Apr 15, 2026

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4 min read

Not All Monsters Are Magical, Part Two: Who We Believe Too Late

Not All Monsters Are Magical, Part Two: Who We Believe Too Late

On hesitation, institutional silence, and the cost of waiting to act

Apr 12, 2026

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3 min read

Eight Seasons and a Denial

Eight Seasons and a Denial

On Buddie, bisexuality, and what 9-1-1 keeps almost doing

Apr 10, 2026

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4 min read

They Greenlit It. They Just Weren't Going to Protect It.

They Greenlit It. They Just Weren't Going to Protect It.

What the cancellation of a queer show with 30 million viewers tells us about who streaming platforms are actually afraid of

Apr 6, 2026

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3 min read

Books That Feel Like Your Favourite 2000s TV Shows

Books That Feel Like Your Favourite 2000s TV Shows

The shows you grew up on were building something underneath the plot. These books are working in the same structure.

Apr 4, 2026

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6 min read

The Closet of Prestige TV

The Closet of Prestige TV

Prestige TV Was Art. Unless You Were Queer.

Apr 1, 2026

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5 min read

The Men Who Built Our TV Dreams (and Poisoned Them Too)

The Men Who Built Our TV Dreams (and Poisoned Them Too)

Joss Whedon, Mark Schwahn, Brad Kern — the showrunners behind Buffy, One Tree Hill, and Charmed built the TV worlds that raised us. Here's what they did behind the scenes.

Mar 22, 2026

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2 min read

Frank Underwood Was Gay, They Just Didn’t Have the Guts

Frank Underwood Was Gay, They Just Didn’t Have the Guts

Netflix almost gave us a queer Machiavelli, then chickened out.

Mar 15, 2026

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4 min read

Loving Scream While Side-Eyeing the Industry Choices Behind It

Loving Scream While Side-Eyeing the Industry Choices Behind It

Why Loving Scream Feels Complicated Right Now

Feb 25, 2026

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3 min read

I Measure My Life in TV Seasons

I Measure My Life in TV Seasons

Because emotional milestones make more sense in 13-episode batches

Feb 22, 2026

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4 min read

The Kalinda Sharma Effect: Queer, Complicated, Unforgettable

The Kalinda Sharma Effect: Queer, Complicated, Unforgettable

She walked so every morally ambiguous bisexual on TV could run.

Feb 18, 2026

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4 min read

Love, Lies, and Lavender Politics

Love, Lies, and Lavender Politics

On Fellow Travelers and why apparently I only cry over spies and queer repression now

Jan 21, 2026

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6 min read

The Soundtracks That Taught Us Heartbreak

The Soundtracks That Taught Us Heartbreak

The songs that made heartbreak and longing feel universal (even when the stories weren’t ours)

Jan 18, 2026

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5 min read

Main Characters Who Should’ve Been Background Extras

Main Characters Who Should’ve Been Background Extras

Or a list of leads who should’ve lost their speaking privileges

Jan 14, 2026

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3 min read

The Teen Drama That Thought It Was Shakespeare

The Teen Drama That Thought It Was Shakespeare

Teen dramas always think they’re about something

Jan 7, 2026

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4 min read

Let Them Sing

Let Them Sing

On why TV's most chaotic musical episodes deserve your respect, and possibly a standing ovation

Jan 4, 2026

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5 min read

The Essays That Stayed With Us

The Essays That Stayed With Us

Essays About Queer Representation That Resonated

Dec 31, 2025

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6 min read

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ABOUT THIS SPACE

Where queer millennial nostalgia settles in. Part diary, part TV debrief, part late night spiral about the scenes that shaped us. A place for the characters we held close, the crushes we could not shake, and the moments that linger long after the credits fade, usually turning up again when we least expect it.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Nathan writes about TV as memory, queer adolescence as folklore, and the tiny moments that shaped who we became. He lives in Naarm with his cat, Captain.

FOR THE RECORD

Always in support of queer rights, trans lives, and a free Palestine.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY

I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters across Australia and pay my respects to First Nations peoples, past and present. Their stories, knowledge and care for Country continue to shape this place, and I’m grateful to be writing on lands where storytelling has always mattered.

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