Why I’m Rejecting the Telenovela Script Around Love
I grew up on telenovelas, but I’m no longer centering my life around finding love – that script does not serve me, you, or women in general.
Romantic Love
Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Blunts the Novel’s Edge
There is something inherently off about releasing a film adaptation of Wuthering Heights on Valentine’s Day weekend. In 2026, Warner Bros is packing Emily Brontë’s novel as a tragic romance, but that framing has always been a willful misreading, an attempt to soften a story that is, at its core, about obsession, domination, class resentment, […]
Explore Queer Love and Safe Spaces with “Ander & Santi Were Here”
“Ander & Santi Were Here” offers a wonderful counter-narrative to tragic tales of LBGTQ+ love and so is a great choice for Valentine’s Day.
Making Peace and Rooting for Love: the End of “The Good Place”
There’s a certain “cool girl” factor in watching “The Good Place” for the Big Ideas and not the relationships. But now that it’s almost over, I’m rooting for Eleanor and Chidi.
“Someone Great” is the Romantic Comedy We Need
When I was pre-teen and teenager, the women dancing in their underwear on screen were white and super thin. Think Cameron Diaz and Kirsten Dunst. They had this carefree cuteness, this unquestionable right to be fearless, sexy, and the center of attention. All of us wanted to be them, as unattainable as that was for […]
Finding Love and Pandemonium on “The Good Place”
In “Pandemonium,” the season three finale of The Good Place, the show makes explicit its most radical idea yet: love. Specifically, love as what gives life meaning. As Janet, the all-knowing robot says, “If there were an answer I could give you to how the universe works, it wouldn’t be special. It would just be […]