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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
no shocker that Schoenbrun was on track, for a while, to direct Nevada. this film is going to be remembered as a similar watershed moment, this time in T4T cinema, with all the faults and failures the "T4T" ideal possesses.
no, not without flaws! I Saw The TV Glow is mainly occupied with a middle class, suburban, generally white—though here excepted—Euroamerican, young trans experience, with the focus on nostalgia and lost-youth (and antiblackness) such an experience entails. this means it…
would it make more sense if it was 12 hours and 12 hours, if sue was elizabeth's dream self? not really. would it make more sense if we understood sue as elizabeth's daughter, that this were a cautionary tale about the reproductive? yes! but the usage of hag-horror and the envisioning of disability (particularly the congenital) as the Bad Outcome of Reproduction quickly lose the possibility of critique, individualizing the problem and resting on B-movie tropes, without utilizing those tropes…