tv recaps
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Turns Out, Star Trek: Discovery Does Want Michael to Have It Both Ways
Last week’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery put Michael Burnham in a hard place. At a crossroads between the potential new life she’d found in the 32nd century and her commitment to her family in Starfleet, our hero faced the consequences for trying to have it all. This week, the show decides that the actual…
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On American Gods, Remembering The Good Old Days Only Makes The Present More Painful
Word to the wise: If you suddenly find yourself on a road trip with a celestial con man, don’t play checkers with a god who used to kill things with a sledgehammer.
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Supergirl Just Did One Of The Best Coming Out Stories In Recent Memory
There’s this time between realising you’re gay and saying you’re gay that we don’t see a lot in media. Usually a character goes straight from “holy crap” to making out with someone in the course of an episode — sometimes in the course of a single scene. And so when they actually announce they’re gay,…