Too often on screen, plus size women are side characters in a thin protagonist’s story. They end up disregarded, two dimensional, and are often doused in diet culture messaging. Thankfully…
Welcome to Fatness In Film, a new monthly column analysing examples of fat representation and body diversity on screen. Positive depictions of fat bodies are hard to find, but Shrill is a recent…
(Warning: the below contains mild-ish spoilers for Amazon Prime series ‘The Boys’.) Amazon’s new series The Boys imagines an America where superheroes walk among humans, and capitalism has turned them into money-making…
Warning: contains mild spoilers for Euphoria, but only for Kat’s storyline. Promise. The premise for Euphoria feels like any other teen show: an ensemble of characters from varying cliques (popular girls, jocks…
I used to fucking love New Girl. I loved it’s manic-pixie-dream-ness, even though I knew I should know better. I loved it’s offbeat humour. I loved Nick Miller. Actually, I…
Looking back at previous depictions of fat women on screen, you’d be hard pushed to find anything truly positive. Instead, we are the fat but non-threatening friend; the whale someone…
When Stranger Things hit Netflix just over a year ago, even the Duffer brothers that created it could not have predicted the cultural phenomenon it would become. Internet memes, the…
Don’t be fooled by the throwback font and talented young cast – this show about all kinds of things that go bump in the night is definitely not just for…
