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The Wildest Body Horror Movie of the Year Fixes a Lazy Genre Trope

The Wildest Body Horror Movie of the Year Fixes a Lazy Genre Trope

Back in the mid-1980s, the nighttime soap opera Dallas set the all-time gold standard for terrible uses of the “It was all a dream!” plot reveal, with a ridiculous twist erasing the entire previous season. In the decades that followed, Hollywood has continued to exploit this overused trope. Horror movies, in particular, going back to the beginning of cinema and …

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Lena Dunham’s ‘Too Much’ Challenges the Funny Fat Lady Trope

Lena Dunham’s ‘Too Much’ Challenges the Funny Fat Lady Trope

Photo-Illustration: Tina Tona; Photographs: Courtesy of Everett Collection; Netflix; Alamy Stock Photo; Getty Images In the first episode of the romantic-comedy series Too Much, heartbroken 30-something Jessica (Megan Stalter) breaks into an apartment she used to live in with her ex, Zev (Michael Zegen). We know this is a mess in the making from the moment she pulls up in …

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