Screen Speck’s Top TV Episodes of 2022
2022 was an exceptionally good year for exceptionally good TV – which made selecting these 15 episodes exceptionally difficult.
Richard Brody’s Fine, Maybe It’s the Rest of Us Who Aren’t Okay
Craighead’s piece is not interested in interrogating Brody’s reasoning
Our Favorite Queer Characters: A Screen Speck Love Letter for Pride Month
For Pride month, Screen Speck’s gayest crew has compiled a list of our favorite queer characters. We hope that one of them might inspire you, too.
Why Do We Want Disney to Say Gay, Anyway?
Disney has a problem with gays: they don’t know what to do about any of us. But that doesn’t stop them paying lip service to our existence.
An Examination of “Fatherhood” – Screen Speck Edition
Dads are complicated. Let’s just get that out of the way. They’re harder to read than mothers are, mainly because many a time they communicate via vague gestures or a grunt here and there instead of words. They also happen to be the most…interesting individual in the lives of their children many times.
On Motherhood & Other Musings by Screen Speck Staff’s Favorite Mothers
In accordance with Mother’s Day, here’s a look at some of the most memorable mothers in our culture.
7 Things I Learned About A&F From ‘White Hot’ As A LGBTQ+ Person
Queerness becomes threatening when it dares to suggest that the heterosexual male gaze isn’t the only lens from which one can view the world.
The Importance of Puppets and Why We Need More of Them in Media
This is not what you think it is. Unless you think this article is about me advocating for more use of puppets in entertainment media and why that would be extremely cool, then this is exactly what you think it is. Why puppets, one might wonder. And to that, I say: Why not? Puppets and […]
How Streaming Changed Our Personal Connections to Film and TV
The truth for many of us obsessives is that our love for the pieces of art that enriched our lives — whether it be film, TV, or even music — is invariably tied up in the events surrounding how we were first introduced to them.