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My Week in Fantasy--December 23, 2022

My Week at the Movies: December 22, 2022

Dear Twitter Gays, Let People Come Out However They Want To

Book Review: This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future

My Week at the Movies: December 16, 2022

The White Lotus Was the Queerest Thing on TV in 2022

The Queer Appeal of Brendan Fraser in "George of the Jungle"

My Week at the Movies (December 9, 2022)

The Exhausting Predictability of "Sight and Sound"

The Bittersweet Charm of Ben Whishaw as Paddington

My Week in Science Fiction and Fantasy (December 3)

"Ancient Apocalypse" Isn't Just Bad History--It's Bad TV

My Week at the Movies (December 1, 2022)

When Smart People Write Dumb Books

Savoring the Opulence of "The Crown"--"Couple 31" (S5, Ep. 9) and Decommissioned (S5, Ep. 10)

Savoring the Opulence of "The Crown"--"No Woman's Land" and "Gunpowder" (S5, Ep. 7 and S5, Ep. 8)

Savoring the Opulence of "The Crown"--"The Way Ahead" and "Ipatiev House" (S5, Ep. 5 and S5, Ep. 6)

Film Review: "God's Country"

Sinking our Teeth into "Interview with the Vampire"--"The Thing Lay Still" (S1, Ep. 7)

Film

Savoring the Opulence of "The Crown": "Mou Mou" (S5, Ep. 3) and "Annus Horribilis" (S5, Ep. 4)

Savoring the Opulence of "The Crown"--"The System" (S5, Ep. 2)

Savoring the Opulence of "The Crown"--"Queen Victoria Syndrome"

Film Review: "Corsage" (2022)

Sinking our Teeth into "Interview with the Vampire"--"Like Angels Put in Hell by God"(S1, Ep. 6)

The Sinful Delight of "The Serpent Queen"--"A Queen is Made" (S1, Ep. 8)

Sinking Our Teeth into "Interview with the Vampire"--"A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart" (S1, Ep. 5)

Sinking Our Teeth into "Interview with the Vampire"--“...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding" (S1, Ep. 4)

The Sinful Delight of "The Serpent Queen"--An Attack on the Queen"

Exploring "House of the Dragon"--"The Black Queen" (S1, Ep. 10)

The Sinful Delight of "The Serpent Queen"--"The Last Joust"

The Sinful Delight of "The Serpent Queen"--"The First Regency" (S1, Ep. 5)

Sinking Our Teeth into "Interview with the Vampire"--"Is My Very Nature that of a Devil" (S1, Ep. 3)

Exploring "House of the Dragon"--"The Green Council" (S1, Ep. 9)

The Joy of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power"--"Alloyed" (S1, Ep. 8)

Sinking Our Teeth into "Interview with the Vampire"--"...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self" (S1, Ep. 2)

Exploring "House of the Dragon"--"Lord of the Tides" (S1, Ep. 8)

The Sinful Delight of "The Serpent Queen"--"A New Era" (S1, Ep. 4)

The Joy of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power": "The Eye" (S1, Ep. 7)

Sinking Our Teeth into "Interview with the Vampire"--"In Throes of Increasing Wonder..." (S1, Ep. 1)

Exploring "House of the Dragon"--"Driftmark" (Season 1, Ep. 7)

The Sinful Delight of "The Serpent Queen"--"To War Rather than to Bed" and "The Price" (S1, Ep. 2 and Ep. 3)

The Joy of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power"--Udûn" (S1, Ep. 6)

Exploring "House of the Dragon"--"The Princess and the Queen" (S1, Ep. 6)

The Joy of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power"--"Partings" (S1, Ep. 5)

Exploring "House of the Dragon"--"We Light the Way" (S1, Ep. 5)

The Sinful Delight of "The Serpent Queen"--"Medici Bitch" (S1, Ep. 1)

The Joys of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power"--"The Great Wave" (S1, Ep. 4)

Exploring "House of the Dragon"--King of the Narrow Sea" (S1, Ep. 4)

The Joys of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power"--"Adar" (S1, Ep.3)

Exploring "House of the Dragon"--"Second of His Name" (S1, Ep. 3)

The Sublime Joy of Revisiting Middle-earth in "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power"

Exploring "House of the Dragon"--"The Rogue Prince" (S1, Ep. 2)

Experiencing the Horror of the Animal in Jordan Peele's "Nope"

Exploring "House of the Dragon"--"The Heirs of the Dragon" (S1, Ep. 1)

Gloriana: Screening Elizabeth I in Shekhar Kapur's "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"

Book Review: "Elektra"

The Pain of Queer Longing in "Stranger Things"

"House of the Dragon," History, and the Problem of Sexual Violence

The Queer Voice of Pat Carroll

Book Review: "Into the Narrowdark"

Gloriana: Screening Elizabeth I in Shekhar Kapur's "Elizabeth" (1998)

Book Review: "In a Garden Burning Gold"

Dear JK Rowling: Please Leave Trans People Alone

The Terrible Temporality of COVID-19

TV Review: "Becoming Elizabeth"

Book Review: "All The Seas of the World"

The Dionysian Pleasures of "Queer as Folk"

The Desire for Dinosaurs

The Brutal Poetry of John Gwynne

Queer Temporality and the Bittersweet Pleasures of "Heartstopper"

Book Review: "Hollywood Musicals"

"Obi-Wan Kenobi" and the Pleasures of the Familiar

Mercedes Lackey and the Art of Queer Tragedy

"Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers" Offers a Biting Critique of Disney's Artistic Banality

Battle of the Blondes: Why Ozark is the Best Crime Drama of the 2020s

Weekly Joy for May 18, 2022

Nothing Else Besides a Mother: Monstrous Motherhood and the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Finding Joy and Grace in "Julia"

The Poignant Intimacy of "Heartstopper"

The Savage Absurdity of "The Northman"

A Deep Dive Into Bridgerton: "The Viscount Who Loved Me" (S1, Ep. 8)

The Prick of Longing in "The Hours"

Fantastic Beasts and the Perils of Over-complication

A Deep Dive Into Bridgerton: "Harmony" (S2, Ep. 7)

Book Review: "The Diamond Eye"

A Deep Dive into Bridgerton: "The Choice" (S2, Ep. 6)

A Deep Dive into Bridgerton: "An Unthinkable Fate" (S2, Ep. 5)

A Deep Dive into Bridgerton: "Victory" (S2, Ep. 4)

The Charming Queer Tragedy of "Our Flag Means Death"

A Deep Dive Into Bridgerton: "A Bee in Your Bonnet" (S2, Ep. 3)

A Deep Dive Into Bridgerton: "Off to the Races" (S2, Ep. 2)

A Deep Dive Into Bridgerton: "Capital R Rake" (S2, Ep. 1)

Weekly Joy for March 21, 2022

Julian Fellowes: Prophet of Modernity

Fantasy Book Review: "Scorpica"

How I Learned to Embrace My Inner (and Outer) Rose Nylund

Finding Grace in "All Creatures Great and Small"

The Subtle Magic of Mercedes Lackey

Your Weekly Joy for March 7, 2022

The Burdens of History in the Epic Fantasy of Tad Williams

The Queer Poignancy of "Somebody Somewhere"

Your Weekly Joy for February 28, 2022

The Curse of Game of Thrones

How Theory Lost Its Mind

Weekly Joy for February 21

Fantasy's Race Problem Is Nothing New, but It's Also Worse than Ever

A Question of Time in "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power"

Weekly Joy for February 14, 2022

Your Weekly Joy for February 7, 2022

Time, Desire, and the Ephemeral Present in "Portrait of a Lady on Fire"

The Exquisite Queerness of "Frasier"

Your Weekly Joy for January 31, 2022

Your Weekly Joy for January 22, 2022

"Eternals" and the Unbearable Burden of Expectations

The Pure, Sublime Joy of Betty White

Your Weekly Joy: January 17, 2022

How the Witcher Books Subvert Epic Fantasy

Why I Just Can't Like "The Golden Palace"

There's No "Bright Side" to a Pandemic

How Reading Agatha Christie Helped Me Grieve my Grandmother's Death

The Abject Pathos of Olivia Colman

"Being the Ricardos" and the Limits of Star Performance

Betty White and the Power of Collective Grief