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Roxane Gay

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The Bachelorette: Season 8 (2012) 33% EDIT “To recap: three fantasy dates on a beautiful tropical island, no sex, worst episode ever.” – Wall Street Journal Apr 30, 2019 Full Review Insatiable: Season 1 (2018) 12% EDIT “The writers of Insatiable have never met a stereotype they don't love, whether they're portraying fatness or queerness or Blackness or pretty much anything else.” – Refinery29 Oct 11, 2018 Full Review Empire: Season 1, Episode 6 (2015) EDIT “If Maury pops out and says, "Jamal, you are the father," I will be thrilled, but that's just me.” – Wall Street Journal May 24, 2018 Full Review Empire: Season 1, Episode 7 (2015) EDIT “Basically, everyone on this show is devious and terrible.” – Wall Street Journal May 24, 2018 Full Review Empire: Season 1, Episode 5 (2015) EDIT “It's a new day, friends. Women can have sidepieces too. Feminism!” – Wall Street Journal May 24, 2018 Full Review Empire: Season 1, Episode 4 (2015) EDIT “Given the goings on of the first three episodes, Empire was rather sedate this week.” – Wall Street Journal May 23, 2018 Full Review Empire: Season 1, Episode 3 (2015) EDIT “Wait, what? Yes. Naomi Campbell.” – Wall Street Journal May 23, 2018 Full Review Empire: Season 1, Episode 2 (2015) EDIT “This show stares down subtlety and smacks it in the face, repeatedly.” – Wall Street Journal May 23, 2018 Full Review Empire: Season 1, Episode 1 (2015) EDIT “This show is a hot mess but it is a really watchable hot mess with great performances by Taraji P. Henson and Jussiee Smollett (Jamal), in particular.” – Wall Street Journal May 23, 2018 Full Review Outlander: Season 2, Episode 13 (2016) EDIT “Dragonfly in Amber is impeccably written, acted, directed, and produced. I really couldn't ask for much more.” – Wired May 23, 2018 Full Review Outlander: Season 2, Episode 12 (2016) EDIT “As the second season winds down, there is a notable confidence in the way things are wrapping up-a confidence that narrative closure won't scare audiences away.” – Wired May 23, 2018 Full Review Outlander: Season 2, Episode 11 (2016) EDIT “Could it be that Mary is finding her feminism? At the very least, she is growing up.” – Wired May 23, 2018 Full Review Outlander: Season 2, Episode 10 (2016) EDIT “This episode serves, mostly, as a reminder of the costs of war-and who pays the price for the whims of the warmongers.” – Wired May 23, 2018 Full Review Outlander: Season 2, Episode 9 (2016) EDIT “For once, the show seems to have slowed down; it feels less like an overstuffed adaptation and more like an episode of television.” – Wired May 23, 2018 Full Review Outlander: Season 2, Episode 8 (2016) EDIT “Look, I understand a television show needs a robust plot. The viewers must be kept engaged. But it's time for all of us to admit that Outlander suffers from an excess of it.” – Wired May 23, 2018 Full Review Outlander: Season 2, Episode 7 (2016) EDIT “The episode devolves into absurdity-but the absurdity is, as always, beautifully presented and treated with the utmost sincerity.” – Wired May 23, 2018 Full Review Outlander: Season 2, Episode 6 (2016) EDIT “Claire... remains the woman who gets to have her cake and eat it too. To be clear, that isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's about time a woman got to be the alpha and the omega of a television show.” – Wired May 23, 2018 Full Review Outlander: Season 2, Episode 5 (2016) EDIT “At least Outlander continues to address recovery with great care. Mary shares her feelings of shame, and Claire reassures the young woman that being raped was not her fault.” – Wired May 23, 2018 Full Review Outlander: Season 2, Episode 4 (2016) EDIT “To see yet another character subjected to sexual violence leads me to wonder if the show's writers are capable of telling a story without violence at its center.” – Wired May 23, 2018 Full Review Outlander: Season 2, Episode 3 (2016) EDIT “I'm not sure this episode offers much clarity on what it means for a woman to be useful. But it certainly highlights some of the challenges 18th-century upper-class women were facing.” – Wired May 23, 2018 Full Review Outlander: Season 2, Episode 2 (2016) EDIT “That the show is allowing Jamie his trauma is exactly why Outlander is such great television: Even when we're not enjoying hot actors having hot sex, the show's sexual politics are leagues beyond most others'.” – Wired May 23, 2018 Full Review Outlander: Season 2, Episode 1 (2016) EDIT “Good news! The couple has a new enemy.” – Wired May 22, 2018 Full Review Homeland: Season 2, Episode 4 (2012) EDIT “It is a perfect moment, their feelings and desire hovering in the air between them alongside the betrayals... There has been a reckoning, indeed, and there is, we hope, more reckoning to come.” – Salon.com May 22, 2018 Full Review Homeland: Season 2, Episode 3 (2012) EDIT “I'm telling you, Homeland is determined to keep Jessica from having good sex. That's the real conspiracy.” – Salon.com May 22, 2018 Full Review Homeland: Season 2, Episode 2 (2012) EDIT “Could have just as easily be called, "Carrie Is Back" because we see her on top of her game, lucid, sharp and ready to get the job done.” – Salon.com May 22, 2018 Full Review
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