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Gilmore Girls, Sex And The City, And The Cringeworthy Class Representation Of Television

The Financial Confessions

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The Leslie Scandal With Andrew Reisborough

I think the whole question of representation is important, but if you divorce that entirely from the actual tangible impacts it has on the group then it's hard to see it as anything other than sort of superficial. I mean, like even if we look at the, all the elements of the two Leslie scandal with Andrew Reisborough got nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress after a grassroots campaign by her contemporaries. The character herself is playing this very sad tragic character story of like a poor white woman going like trying to deal with these kind of class issues. That is a movie that no one saw. And I think the thing about it too is like those movies are being made. They're just

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