Tag: Jenna Ortega
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Not Quite “Twice As Nice” As the Original (Mainly Because of a Tonal Shift From Bona Fide Weird to Corporate Weird), But Good Enough
In 1988, the movie releases of the day were something of a mixed bag. From titles like Killer Klowns from Outer Space to Who Framed [Read More…]
Sabrina Carpenter and Jenna Ortega Compete Over Mid White Guy in Death Becomes Her-Inspired “Taste” Video
Some might initially be led to believe that Sabrina Carpenter’s video for her third single from Short n’ Sweet, “Taste,” is Quentin Tarantino-oriented with its [Read More…]
New York Comes Across As Generically As Woodsboro in Scream VI
For all the promotional hype surrounding the latest installment in the Scream franchise (officially poking fun at itself for having become that) and how it [Read More…]
Mother of the Misery Chicks: Wednesday Addams As the Forebear for Emily the Strange and Daria
There’s an episode in season one of Daria called “The Misery Chick.” In it, a former quarterback/golden boy who attended Lawndale High, Tommy Sherman, is [Read More…]
Softcore Gloom: The Gentrification of Wednesday Addams Includes Nods to Charmed, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Gilmore Girls and Harry Potter
Maybe it seems ironic to say that the character of Wednesday Addams has been “gentrified,” considering she’s no longer white. And sure, in Jenna Ortega’s [Read More…]
With A Callback to Addams Family Values, Wednesday Prompts Thanksgiving Revelers to Remember That It’s Still “Pilgrim World”
Being that Wednesday has arrived to Netflix just in time to capture the “Thanksgiving spirit,” it’s clearly no coincidence that, in episode three of the [Read More…]
X Marks the Gerontophobic Spot
It’s perhaps one of those ideas that no one immediately realizes is brilliant because it’s so simple: to make aging—and the fear of it—the key [Read More…]
Turns Out L.A. Even Makes Serial Killing Passive Aggressive: Season 2 of You
It feels rather meta appropriate that one, Joe Goldberg, sometimes known as Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), should end up in L.A. for the season two [Read More…]
