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[saikinnie]

[antiquepearlss]

Something I love about Abbott Elementary that you don’t see very often in other shows, is that the kids act like kids, but they’re not villainized for it.

Of course the younger kids are treated well, that’s to be expected. But the middle schoolers are often disrespectful, talk back to their teachers, don’t take things seriously, they rebel, etc. They act like middle schoolers. And they’re not shamed for it. They’re not the ones expected to change, the teachers are.

Middle schoolers are almost always villainized as being annoying and insufferable, so I appreciate that Abbott Elementary let them be annoying and insufferable without having to face any sort of consequences for a natural part of being human and growing up.

[bronx-nome-librarian]

Quinta and cast did magic in the simple portrayal of letting Black kids be KIDS!

[buffyseasonsix]

I love when you watch a movie about a sad priest trying desperately to fix a broken church with a corrupt cult leader and then you get to gasp when benoit blanc shows up because you literally forgot what you walked into this theater for

[that-bird-lady]

The real mystery is how they managed to make the main character so charismatic and sympathetic that it makes you forget entirely about Benoit Blanc for a big portion of the movie at the beginning before he actually shows up.

[thedykeparade]

[adamnsey]

what if you were a DETECTIVE and you were GAY and an ATHEIST because you have NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES with the CHURCH and you got called to come investigate a MURDER and the main suspect is a PRIEST but he throws you off because he’s HOT and KIND and got a NECK TATTOO and his lips are CRACKED with dehydration and he’s been KNEELING and CRYING all night and you immediately deduce that he’s INNOCENT even though literally everyone in the town including the CHIEF OF POLICE thinks he’s GUILTY but you know the TRUTH and you get him to HELP YOU solve the MURDER and also SHOW YOU how spirituality can be a source of true LOVE and COMFORT for some and he reminds you of the inherent GOODNESS of humanity and even though you’re still an ATHEIST and he’s still a HOT PRIEST both of you are fundamentally CHANGED for the BETTER did i mention he’s got a NECK TATTOO

[prickly-paprikash]

It isn't just that Knives Out protagonists win by being kind and steadfast. They win by sticking to what it is they're good at. What they've been called to do, as thankless and as demeaning as those jobs can sometimes make them feel. They didn't play the "game" like Benoit did. They just did what they knew they were good at.

Marta wins because she was a nurse and a caregiver before anything else. She wins the inheritance because she gave Harlan companionship, not just medical care. She gets the truth out of Ransom because she acted as a nurse, trying to save Fran even though she still dies in the end. Had Harlan just fucking listened to the actual medical expert in the room instead of himself, he would have lived.

Helen wins because she's a third-grade teacher—her job is literally educating, caring for, and looking out for kids. Glass Onion isn't just the working class vs the wealthy, it's an actual functioning adult woman vs a bunch of adult-sized toddlers, whining and throwing temper tantrums and thinking only of themselves. She plays games with her third graders, and in the end she wins by making a game of destroying everything Miles ever held dear, even getting the others to side with her.

Jud wins because he's an actual fucking priest, who actually embodies everything his god taught. He doesn't try to poach Wick's "flock" or anything, nor does he allow himself to surrender to anger and vindictiveness in the way Wick did. Jud is absolved of all his crimes because he just wants to do good by his church, in the name of his god.

Just as Blanc is an excellent detective, so too are these three spectacular at their jobs.

Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig just keep reiterating the same points in every film and I do love them for it.

• Respect the working class

• Fucking respect women.

• Listen to the local queer person who is excellent at their jobs and you will go far.

• Be kind in a cynical world.

[beaulesbian]

"You're right. It's storytelling." - Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

[karlyanalora]

Keeping’s op’s tags because they say it all

[pinkfluffcotoncandy]

Guys, this movie is amazing! It lives up to the other two. Like the vibes are always different from movie to movie and I adore that! The lighting in this movie had me salivating. The relationship between the script and the lighting 😚👌✨️

The way I cried at the end! The resolution of not only the murder, but the story that spanned almost 3 generations!!

"That poor girl!" can be applied to more than one of the female characters and it's beautiful and tragic. I still want to cry.

I hope there's a fourth movie so fkn bad.

[a-little-bit-oddish]

despite the fact that jud's form and view of christianity is a very pleasant one, i appreciate that no part of benoit blanc is converted. it's not like i expected benoit to become a christian obviously, but i expected him to potentially stay for a service at the end, when invited. or to show appreciation for what jud is building at his church. even just appreciation that he's welcome.

after the whole movie, when benoit is given the invite, he still says there's nothing he wants less than to stay in that church. it's very, very reasonable and realistic of a traumatized atheist, but i almost never see it depicted in this way. usually they come around to "see the beauty" in one way or another. i just really appreciate that they didn't do that.

[this-is-a-podcast-fanblog]

the benoit blanc movies show really beautifully how to write a queer character whose story is not centered around their queerness. it's shown that benoit blanc is gay married (to hugh grant!) it's shown that he participates in queer mediums like musical theater and fashion, but none of those things are ever explicitly remarked on. he doesn't have a big coming out scene because he doesn't need one; and the subtle details about him not speaking to his mother, the way he associates a church with homophobia, allows us to draw conclusions about how his family felt about his queerness without making that the sole conflict in his story. the conflict in benoit blanc's story is not that he exists in the world as a gay person, it's that he's always trying to wrangle a bunch of 30 somethings into not confessing to crimes they didn't commit

[cherryysocks]

...forgive me, Grace.

[justgivemeabookplease]

Shrek 2, while a cinematic masterpiece, is also an interesting look at queerness and comp het.

Fiona is married so it's time to reunite with her parents. But instead of marrying a prince, she's married to an ogre. Not just that, but she's also an ogre. (Yes everyone knew she would sometimes be an ogre but that was when she was a child, she didn't know she would be an ogre for the rest of her life, and besides once she met the right prince she would stop being an ogre. She was supposed to stop being an ogre.)

But okay they're both ogres. We can still ask about when they'll have children because even if they're ogres they can still have kids, right? That's what married princes and princesses do so naturally that's what everyone does. Even if ogres might not be great parents (I've heard that ogres eat their young, is that something you people do?) it's still something that should be discussed.

And okay you can stay in Fiona's childhood bedroom filled with all the reminders that hey, everyone thought she was just a princess and princesses marry princes. Her toys left out from the last time she played with them. The prince slays the ogre. The princess offers a token of gratitude for slaying the ogre. Fiona wrote Mrs. Fiona Charming a million times in her diary because what else was she supposed to grow up to be?

And Harold, the Fairy Godmother says, you have to fix this, your kingdom can't be ruled by ogres. You were unfit to rule, to be loved, when you were a frog but I changed you, I made you better, I made you a prince. You know how this works. Think of your daughter's safety.

Shrek goes to the Fairy Godmother and oh honey, ogres don't live happily ever after. It's just not done. It hasn't happened in all of fairy tale history. You have to change the both of you to be happy. You have to present as a prince and a princess. It will be better. You'll fit in better that way. You'll be accepted that way.

[warningsine]

[goodsirs]

Poker Face 2.12 "The End of the Road"

[faerygardenparty]

Poker Face really feels like the sort of show that people on this website would go crazy for and yet I feel like no one on here cares about it, like Natasha Lyonne as a Colombo-style nomadic detective with a borderline supernatural ability to tell when someone’s lying who calls herself a “grown ass man” and “just some guy”, a murder of the week style plot and weekly episode releases as opposed to the entire season dropping at once, created by the same guy who made Knives Out and potentially even takes place in the same universe considering the main character appeared in Glass Onion, and a colorful, 70s aesthetic YALL GOTTA GET ON THIS SHIT

[imetacrab]

Poker Face is now a Killing Eve style Natasha Lyonne X Patti Harrison toxic yuri and I'm only half joking.....

[riccissance]

As stressful as it is, I unironically love how often Charlie Cale ends up telling the murderer about her bullshit detector and calling out their lies to their face. Like, she isn't intentionally challenging them. She has no idea that they're the killer yet. This woman who has been across the country and witnessed so much death and violence and dishonesty just can't help believing in people. She sees the good in them. And no matter how often that choice shoots her in the foot, she keeps believing in them. She gives everyone the benefit of the doubt until she can't anymore. And I just think that's really beautiful.

[faerygardenparty]

Poker Face really feels like the sort of show that people on this website would go crazy for and yet I feel like no one on here cares about it, like Natasha Lyonne as a Colombo-style nomadic detective with a borderline supernatural ability to tell when someone’s lying who calls herself a “grown ass man” and “just some guy”, a murder of the week style plot and weekly episode releases as opposed to the entire season dropping at once, created by the same guy who made Knives Out and potentially even takes place in the same universe considering the main character appeared in Glass Onion, and a colorful, 70s aesthetic YALL GOTTA GET ON THIS SHIT