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Alex Abad-Santos

Alex Abad-Santos

Senior Correspondent

    Latest articles by Alex Abad-Santos

    Culture
    Looking is the best show no one’s watchingLooking is the best show no one’s watching
    Culture

    The show, and its honest look at gay life, deserves a third season.

    By Alex Abad-Santos
    Culture
    It Follows wants to scare you. But it also wants to break your heart.It Follows wants to scare you. But it also wants to break your heart.
    Culture

    It Follows is a love story in a horror movie’s skin.

    By Alex Abad-Santos
    Culture
    Insurgent is better than Divergent. But it’s still not very good.Insurgent is better than Divergent. But it’s still not very good.
    Culture

    The vast majority of this movie is about the characters wishing to be elsewhere. And the movie’s audience will, after 119 long minutes, almost certainly relate.

    By Alex Abad-Santos
    Culture
    This comic book cover is ripping DC Comics apartThis comic book cover is ripping DC Comics apart
    Culture

    And it won’t be seen in stores.

    By Alex Abad-Santos
    Culture
    One paragraph that will make you understand the genius of Shonda RhimesOne paragraph that will make you understand the genius of Shonda Rhimes
    Culture

    “No one is meaner than a pack of human beings faced with someone who is different,” Rhimes said at the HRC Gala in Los Angeles.

    By Alex Abad-Santos
    Culture
    The history of Vision, the superhero making his film debut in Avengers: Age of UltronThe history of Vision, the superhero making his film debut in Avengers: Age of Ultron
    Culture

    Even androids can cry!

    By Alex Abad-Santos
    Culture
    The insane history of how American paranoia ruined and censored comic booksThe insane history of how American paranoia ruined and censored comic books
    Culture

    The Comics Code was the single most awful thing to happen to comic books and American creativity.

    By Alex Abad-Santos
    Marriage Equality
    #Wejustneedtopee: why lawmakers shouldn’t choose which restrooms transgender people use#Wejustneedtopee: why lawmakers shouldn’t choose which restrooms transgender people use
    Marriage Equality

    There’s a lot that lawmakers get wrong about trans people.

    By Alex Abad-Santos
    Culture
    Powers, Playstation’s new superhero drama, is just awfulPowers, Playstation’s new superhero drama, is just awful
    Culture

    For a show about superheroes, it’s pretty joyless.

    By Alex Abad-Santos
    Marriage Equality
    Dan Savage has the perfect response to Ben Carson’s claim that being gay is a choiceDan Savage has the perfect response to Ben Carson’s claim that being gay is a choice
    Marriage Equality

    Christianity is a choice, too.

    By Alex Abad-Santos