Can’t wait! The novel (novella, I guess) is fantastic.
What a shame that Larsen couldn’t flourish further as an author.
Also that the article’s writer spelled her name wrong. 
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FWIW, I just finished the current new set of 4 episodes, and it seems to have rallied. Enough so that I’m excited for the next 12 episodes next year.
The first episode felt really off, the next, a bit better, and then they seem to have reconnected with the original mood of it. We’ll see.
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It was very silly in a Looney Tunes kind of way but at least a bunch of characters didn’t get horrifically murdered every five minutes and i’m thankful we got the Thor with the character development we did in the MCU and not this version which would have gotten very weary. I’m really not sure it all hangs together but i guess you’re just supposed to go along for the ride.
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I’m looking forward to this… I think maybe there has only been one other film that I can think of that’s dealt with passing? Wasn’t there a film based on a Phillip Roth novel about a man passing as white?
yes:
I have not seen the film or read the book…
Can you think of any others? I’m probably missing something.
I’ll have to pick it up!
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There’s also this one:
I vaguely remember it on TV when I stayed home from school due to illness. I wasn’t old enough to fully understand it then, but I remember how sad it was.
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That’s one of my mom’s favs.
To this day, my family calls self-hating Black women who are trying to be White ‘Sara Jane.’
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Oh, that was a heartbreaker! 
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Especially the end; too little, WAY too late.
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Another classic about this topic is Pinky:
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This is good too:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780809000326
Can’t say I liked Roth’s The Human Stain. Something contrived abut it all, especially the ending. Meh.
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This looks amazing!
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I just started on the last season of Dear White People. I can’t say too much about the direction of the story, but the framing device took me by surprise. Didn’t expect to hear the story told by the characters in The Future where masks have become so commonplace that they are part of fashion, pandemics are common and ongoing, and quarantine/lockdown is something that can happen multiple times a day.
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It’s definitely a departure from previous seasons, but that’s the glory of creative artistry.
I’ve really missed that show, so it’s lovely to see everyone again, even if this is a totally new direction.
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First two eps are out already; they’re on my queue for tomorrow.
Also I watched Free Guy.
It was WAY better than I expected; just the right of amount of silly.
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Ryan Reynolds has been hawking potato chips in Mexico, and there’s currently a funny commercial where, (as a professional actor) he’s being pitched to star in said promotions, but also eating a bag of chips that are so crunchy he can’t hear what the others are saying to him.
Cut to the final scene with Reynolds in a human cannonball outfit, looking down the barrel of the cannon, questioning his agent if this is really what he signed up for. 
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This looks promising.
ETA, I see it’s been mentioned elsewhere on the BB.
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Just started. Already hooked.
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Just finished the first season of this, really wish I could find the second!
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One of the things I watched while I was out was Centaurworld on Netflix.
As a warning: it’s weird, and it leans on the “goofy silly wacky zany fun times fart joke world” trope hard, especially at the beginning, but it does so mainly to differentiate the centaurs’ world from Horse’s world, which is deep in a gritty cataclysmic-but-still-kid-friendly war with a seemingly unstoppable force. (And yes, the main character’s name is Horse.)
If I had to describe the show overall, I’d say it’s essentially early Adventure Time levels of zany with late Adventure Time levels of narrative storytelling. It gets Very Serious for a kids show in places (they somehow managed to get away with a Y-7 rating despite all the war and baby orphans and literal episode-long suicide metaphors, so… content warning I guess?) while still managing to be fun the whole way through.
Oh, also, it’s a musical, and the songs are all extremely good and dangerously catchy.
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The episode after Party Thor (What if Ultron Won) was really great and looks like it will tie many of the episodes together.
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