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Review 15: Breaking Bad Seasons 3-4
From season three onwards, the main discussion of disability is Hank’s hospitalisation and recovery. This is a very important plot in...
Savannah Cruthers
Dec 11, 20233 min read
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Review 14: Breaking Bad Season 2
In episode two we’re introduced to Hector: a rare example of people respecting the power and intelligence of a disabled, mute, old...
Savannah Cruthers
Dec 4, 20232 min read
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Review 13: Breaking Bad Season 1
Breaking Bad is one of the few mainstream shows that includes a disabled character portrayed positively—much less one actually played by...
Savannah Cruthers
Nov 27, 20232 min read
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Review 12: The Taking of Deborah Logan
When I first heard this was a movie about dementia, I assumed it would be someone on their death bed because that’s always how it’s...
Savannah Cruthers
Nov 20, 20232 min read
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Review 11: Old People
The main thing that makes old people scary to general society is declining health, dementia, and physical disabilities. Dementia can...
Savannah Cruthers
Nov 13, 20232 min read
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Review 10: Tin and Tina
This movie is about two, evil, prodigious children with albinism, though not played by actors with albinism. The wife/mother has a limb...
Savannah Cruthers
Nov 6, 20232 min read
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Review 9: Wrong Turn 1
This movie is right back at it with hating the victims/survivors of sexual assault. The entire opening credits is visibly disabled people...
Savannah Cruthers
Oct 30, 20231 min read
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Review 8: Hereditary
As for Hereditary Milly Shapiro has repeatedly said that they intentionally exaggerated the appearance of her facial deformity, and that...
Savannah Cruthers
Oct 23, 20231 min read
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Review 7: Midsommar
Ari Aster is a deeply bigoted person. All of his feature length films have either disabled or black antagonists except for his most...
Savannah Cruthers
Oct 16, 20231 min read
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Review 6: The Haunting of Hill House
Many of the ghosts in this mini series are disabled, and this disability is intentionally used to make them scarier. There’s “bent neck...
Savannah Cruthers
Oct 9, 20231 min read
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Review 5: Brahams the Boy II
The movie opens with a young child, Will, witnessing a break in and his mother nearly murdered. Will doesn't talk after the assault and...
Savannah Cruthers
Oct 2, 20232 min read
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Review 4: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 7-9
The numbering of the movies: 1: The Texas Chain Saw [sic] Massacre (1974). 2: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986). 3: Leatherface: The...
Savannah Cruthers
Sep 25, 20233 min read
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Review 3: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4-6
The numbering of the movies: 1: The Texas Chain Saw [sic] Massacre (1974). 2: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986). 3: Leatherface: The...
Savannah Cruthers
Sep 18, 20232 min read
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Review 2: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1-3
*NB: I will be using he/him pronouns for Leatherface because even though most of the movies clearly make him trans/non-binary, this is...
Savannah Cruthers
Sep 11, 20233 min read
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Review 1: Midnight Mass
Midnight Mass is a limited series with deep religious themes. One of the characters is a teen/young adult named Leeza. She became a...
Savannah Cruthers
Sep 4, 20232 min read
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