Ding dong! Did someone here order a fresh and tasty Pop Culture Fix?
+ The Barbie movie dropped new character posters with a teaser trailer yesterday, and there sure are some queers in it! Kate McKinnon as a broken Barbie — with a safety-scissor hair cut, and markers all over her face, and a thoroughly disjointed leg — is my personal favorite. Like yes, American Girl Dolls are gay, but this is GAY GAY. She actually kind of looks like Tammy Lynn Michaels’ Lacey from The L Word pilot episode; you know, Shane’s first official stalker?
The first look at Kate McKinnon as a Barbie in 'BARBIE' has been released. pic.twitter.com/QuCJ7D6rOi
— CoveredGeekly (@CoveredGeekly) April 4, 2023
+ Yellowjackets showrunners talking about how you have to “earn” cannibalism. I can’t watch this show because I’m a scaredy-baby but I sure do love the headlines!
+ Mae Martin’s got a new series coming to Netflix! It’s called Tall Pines and it’s a “mystery thriller set in a bucolic, yet sinister town.” That sure does sound right up Autostraddle’s alley!
+ Boygenius is here to blunt whatever life throws our way.
+ This was my favorite bit of pop culture news this week.
Miles Morales says trans rights https://t.co/s0fF9yuTSc pic.twitter.com/cb0CcCZIVf
— Niko Stratis (@nikostratis) April 4, 2023
+ Rachel Weisz says Dead Ringers was a mindfuck to film.
+ Cruel Intentions TV show to happen for real this time, no seriously.
+ Melanie Lynskey wouldn’t mind doing a The Last of Us origin season.
+ The Mamas are back on Good Trouble this week!
I’m shocked by how excited I am for the Barbie movie, even before i knew Kate McKinnon was in it! The 2001 A Space Odyssey teaser was really fun, and the more I see the more excited i get
When I was little my dads sister sent me a box of vintage 80s barbies and I can personally vouch that by the time I got through with them at least a quarter of them held a resemblance to Barbie Kate McKinnon. Another portion of them had their limbs broken off. My brother made this hole in his bedroom by punching the wall so many times so I used to drop their plastic limbs and heads in it and have the other non broken dolls walk past and say “beware. That is the pit of doom. You don’t want to wind up in there.”
OMG, I love this.
I just kept playing with my broken dolls. I made cute little capes for one of my Barbies after she lost both arms. And I had another doll (either Isis or Wonder Woman) that had articulated hands that got lost. I thought her arms looked like canons without her hands, so I made her fly around and shoot things from her canon arms.
The haircut I gave my Barbie didn’t look as cute as Kate McKinnon’s – the hair kind of got frizzy and weird looking. Like a bad perm.
@queergirl Definitely Comment Award to Nova and cleo
Phenomenal!
lol You sound like you were a really fun kid.
you too!
I grew up listening to Tanya Tucker, so I wish I didn’t know that she attended Trump’s inauguration. But I do…
NOOOOOO!!!!!! Dammit!
ok, but if you google her name and his, there only seems to be stuff about her attendance to that. so, she doesn’t seem to be talking about him now.
and she sang at nashville pride last year, so while a bummer, there’s probably more nuance here than just one fact. hoping i’m not wrong…
Yeah, I saw that she sang at Nashville Pride, and she seems to be working with Brandi Carlile a lot so probably isn’t full MAGA, or at least not vocal about it. But it’s still disappointing that she chose to attend the inauguration when she could have just… not.
fair.
i hope she feels differently now.
come on barbie let’s go party!
come on barbie Margot Robbie
I wish I cared about any of the male love interests on Good Trouble but I never do. With the exception of maybe Dennis and sometimes Gael. I have outright LOATHED a few of them and that especially includes Evan. Can we give Marianna anybody else? It has been seasons of this.
Omg, seriously. I hate Evan and Jamie so much. Every time I think they’re gone they come back!
Such a good pop culture fix! I am definitely losing my sh*t over the Barbie movie, and so very much love boygenius and all of its members.
Omg, just googled for a side by side comparison and Kate McKinnon’s Barbie does indeed look just like Lacey. Made me laugh!
OMG, Just this one shot and I already know. Safety-scissors Barbie is probably going to be my Halloween costume.
That Amazon Studios article was really fascinating, thank you so much for sharing it! I love deep dives into things like that (even though, as you say, the conclusions are…not good)