The Thursday Edition - Nov 14, 2019
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The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group clipping.

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News, billionaire tears, Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren Is Coming for Those Billionaire Tears

Elizabeth Warren enters a pro-union event.
Warren's "ultra-millionaire tax" plan has proven to be controversial, largely because the media has given a lot of attention and airtime to letting those billionaires plead their case and, in some cases, cry literal tears over the idea of having to give their fair share back to society.
Movies, Anna Kendrick, Disney Plus, Noelle

Let’s Discuss the Predicable but Welcome Feminism of Noelle

Anna Kendrick in Noelle
Noelle is streaming on Disney+ with Anna Kendrick in a sweetly feminist Christmas tale.
Movies, Disney, Disney Plus, race

Disney+ Adds Disclaimer to Problematic Movies Citing “Outdated Cultural Depictions”

Candy Candido and Bobby Driscoll in Peter Pan (1953)
With Disney+ releasing (most) of the company's immense media collection, that also meant releasing a lot of films that had problematic depictions of race in them. Instead of removing the scenes, they decided to simply put a brief content warning at the beginning of each film.
Movies, Black Christmas, Blumhouse Productions

Black Christmas Remake to Be PG-13 to Be More Accessible to Teenage Girls

Imogen Poots, Brittany O'Grady, Lily Donoghue, and Aleyse Shannon in Black Christmas (2019)
News has come out that the upcoming Black Christmas remake—starring Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Brittany O'Grady, Lily Donoghue, and Caleb Eberhardt, directed Sophia Takal, and written by Takal and April Wolfe—will be PG-13. Cowriter April Wolfe addressed horror fans' reaction to this news on Twitter.
TV, contributors, The Flash

The Definitive* Ranking of Every Harrison Wells on The Flash

Multiple Harrison Wellses on The CW's The Flash.
Over the course of its six-season run, The CW's The Flash has introduced viewers to dozens of memorable characters. However, there’s one face that seems to keep appearing over, and over, and over, and over again.
TV, Loki, things we saw today, Tom Hiddleston

Things We Saw Today: I’m Fine With the Loki Series Going All Quantum Leap

Loki series time travel
The upcoming Disney+ series starring Tom Hiddleston as the God of Mischief will have "a huge time travel component."
News, impeachment, politics, Republicans

Republicans Are Just Trying to Make the Impeachment Hearings as Unwatchable as Possible, Aren’t They?

Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, asks questions of witnesses in impeachment hearing.
Nearly all of the Republicans focused on a very small number of talking points and it was exhausting to witness.
Big on the Internet, Movies, Amber Heard, Aquaman 2, domestic violence

A Petition Is Calling for Amber Heard to Be Removed From Aquaman 2—Sigh

Aquaman review starring Jason Momoa and Amber Heard
The desire to turn Johnny Depp into a victim, despite all he has done, despite the Rolling Stone interview and allegations against him, is astounding. Especially when it comes at the expense of wanting to tear down Amber Heard in the process.
Movies, Last Christmas

Last Christmas Needs to Figure out Its Messaging

Emilia Clarke as Kate in Last Christmas
When it comes to Hallmark-esque holiday movies, we normally know the deal. But when those movies have a wide cinematic release that we're supposed to see as if we haven't already figured out the plot, that's when there is a problem. And that's my main issue with Last Christmas.
TV, Disney Plus

WHERE IS THE ALADDIN TV SHOW, DISNEY+?

Mozenrath deserves to be on Disney+
We let you take over the entire world media, Disney, so you are supposed to give us all the media now. Give me the nostalgia I paid you for!
Movies, Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Marvel Cinematic Universe v Chest Hair: Dawn of Men

Steve Rogers shirtless
I am a humble servant of the people, and with that, I must bring the knowledge that Marvel and the MCU has a problem, apparently, with chest hair.
News, impeachment, politics

The First Day of Public Impeachment Hearings Is Off to a Powerful Start

George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs and Ukrainian Ambassador Bill Taylor(front), the top diplomat in the US embassy in Ukraine arrive in the impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC
It's not exactly riveting television because the people testifying in front of Congress are non-partisan career beaurocrats, not entertainers or the rabid "never Trumpers" that Republicans have tried to paint them as recently. But this is, without a doubt, an important day in our modern history.
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