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The Flash Finally Made the Right Decision with Caitlin and Frost

This The Flash article contains spoilers for Season 7, Episode 5, “Fear Me”. The Flash’s “Fear Me” is an entertaining enough Season 7 installment that gets to play with a long-standing genre trope, that of an outside entity – think demon, alien, magical dust, or, in this case, a metahuman known as Psych who’s able to project nightmare hallucinations onto others – who somehow allows us to explore the deepest fears of our favorite characters. (Plus, Cecile in The Thinker’s chair was pretty darn cool.) But it’s also an hour of The Flash that does something so necessary, that it…
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Caitlin Moran: “I was the only teenager in the country who had that kind of power”

In the middle of our conversation with journalist and author Caitlin Moran, she turns around to reveal a storyboard for her next project – a utopian sci-fi described as a cross between Weird Science and The Handmaid’s Tale. Whether that sounds appealing will depend largely on whether you’ve found yourself enraptured by Moran’s unique blend of whimsy and wit before. “All sci-fi films are dystopian. It’s always about the future and how technology has bombed us and we’re all fucked. I think that’s because generally, men make them, but technology is amazing, particularly for women,” she says. “Every time we…
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