(Once upon a time Elisa and I tried to have a podcast called Monster Girls that was ostensibly about horror through a feminist lens but mostly just us watching horror movies and then talking about them for an hour and a half, and this made me want to revive that)

We only had one really substantive gripe about a production element; the writing and direction are tight, smart, and surprising.

Recommended for: former DONNIE DARKO teens and true crime girlies.

I DO regret that nobody ever mentioned what a complete piece of garbage Antonio is! All I ever heard is that he and Bassanio are kinda gay, which is true, but CHRIST does Antonio suck. Every single time he is given an opportunity to make a choice he goes for the worst one.

Anyway, @jordyrosenberg.bsky.social's CONFESSIONS OF THE FOX hits so many notes historical, fictional, and queerical that I've been fascinated by since high school that I had to see if we were in the same 18th cen. social deviance class together at Carnegie Mellon. (afaict we were not)

🎶Yeah, it's such a waste of time
Ah,
📣BROOKLYN!
📣BROOKLYN!!
🎶Take me in

Frankly it might just be "I and Love and You" but with every instance of "Brooklyn" replaced by the Beastie Boys