Reporting and Essays on Society, Culture, Lifestyle. Plus a dash of creative non-fiction with questionably funny pictures.
Le dernier thriller de David Robert Mitchell se veut surréaliste, magique, audacieux. Mais malgré maints monstres à têtes de hibou, conspirations fumeuses, et objectification constante des personnages féminins, l’intrigue reste d’une nullité stérile.
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Ah, Stephen King. How I loved him. Do I still? I am not sure. I’ve just finished Sleeping Beauties, an interesting tale about male violence and female separatism: simply put, a compelling cast of female characters get sent to a parallel world without men to re-start humanity. It’s okay, mostly. There’s some brilliant ladies, including […]
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‘Dair’ was off to a good start, but no intellectual debates or drunken elevator lovemaking can make up for abusive dynamics and sloppy writing.
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Take any rundown of Gossip Girl‘s worst characters, and no doubt Serena van der Woodsen will be sitting (un)comfortably near the top. But why is she so universally hated while much nastier characters, such as rapist and abuser Chuck Bass, are showered with praise?
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Malgré un pitch prometteur et une superbe interprétation de Carole Bouquet, la mini-série La Mante apparaît comme une occasion manquée de dénoncer et analyser les violences faites aux femmes et aux enfants, et plus particulièrement la manière dont notre système judiciaire échoue à protéger les victimes. Attention, cet article contient des spoilers.
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Too often, assholes in fiction get praised and rewarded in spite of their terrible misdeeds – and this both mirrors and impacts how we respond to such behavior in real life.
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