so this week's Critical Reviewing discussion, we had to pick a TV series to talk about

[alexseanchai]

In conclusion, I do not believe it's accurate to sum up Supernatural as just a show about "straight cis white Christian guys."

TELL ME MORE OH WISE ONE

Comments

[jelazakazone]

Hah! Maybe this is why I never wanted to watch it :D

[malkingrey]

Well, nominally straight and distinctly heterodox Christian guys, anyhow. (Can't argue with the whiteness, though . . . if you want a horror/fantasy TV series with serious PoC representation, Sleepy Hollow is the way to go.)

[alexseanchai]

Yeah, I'll give you 'heterodox'. Also 'nominally straight', but unless they stopped queerbaiting us sometime after I quit watching and nobody mentioned the new queer canon in my hearing, they're officially straight. (Well. Not Charlie Bradbury. But much as I adore Charlie Bradbury...)

Saw a couple episodes of Sleepy Hollow, meant to keep going, got distracted by a butterfly. (My brain contains many butterflies.) Will get back to it eventually, I'm sure.

[milkymoon]

As jelazakazone said, that may be why I've never been interested in it. It's just... never appealed to me as a Thing, even though I know loads of people who love it.

[esmenet]

hahaha. oh man. With Supernatural and all those other shows, you can argue that they do that premise well or poorly—and maybe, maybe that they're also doing something else—but you absolutely cannot argue that it's not the main thing that they're doing.