Emmet Asher-Perrin
@use-theforce-em.bsky.social
hey hey the ga(y)ng's all here. Entertainment Editor at Reactor, one of those they/thems, opinions are mine ofc.
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I'm just asking questions! (pretty sure it's true, though)
Are the Fantastic Four Leading a Planet-Wide Cult in Their Universe? - Reactor
Sorry, they let Sue Storm do what?
reactormag.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I'm just asking questions! (pretty sure it's true, though)
This one hurt. (Maybe just watch the first and final ten minutes?)
Fantastic Four: First Steps Seems Intent on Proving That You Can’t Make a Good Fantastic Four Movie - Reactor
Fans hoped that getting folded into the MCU would fix the team’s track record on film. It’s clobbering time?
reactormag.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This one hurt. (Maybe just watch the first and final ten minutes?)
Everyone wants to talk about Superman saving the squirrel, or saying I love you 3 months into dating, or holding a dying robot, and I just wanna shake them and shout "And *why* do you like that part??"
(This is why.)
(This is why.)
We Don't Love Superman Because He'll Save Us - Reactor
Superman gives audiences hope — but not as a straightforward savior narrative.
reactormag.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Everyone wants to talk about Superman saving the squirrel, or saying I love you 3 months into dating, or holding a dying robot, and I just wanna shake them and shout "And *why* do you like that part??"
(This is why.)
(This is why.)
The Vulcan underground depilation community must be *wild*. Wild, I say.
Yes, this is the sort of thing I'm thinking about when I watch TV.
Yes, this is the sort of thing I'm thinking about when I watch TV.
Some Thoughts About Spock's Chest Hair - Reactor
Or: We Need to Talk About Vulcan Manscaping on Strange New Worlds
reactormag.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Vulcan underground depilation community must be *wild*. Wild, I say.
Yes, this is the sort of thing I'm thinking about when I watch TV.
Yes, this is the sort of thing I'm thinking about when I watch TV.
I don't care if it's overcrowded, give me every superhero story where we skip origins, always.
Superman Cracks a Long-Forgotten Code to Its Central Character - Reactor
The movie is over-stuffed, but who cares when being kind is the new punk rock?
reactormag.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I don't care if it's overcrowded, give me every superhero story where we skip origins, always.
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I know this is a losing battle and yet! I will die on this hill:
SIX EPISODES IS NOT A SEASON IT IS A MINISERIES
SIX EPISODES IS NOT A SEASON IT IS A MINISERIES
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Renewed for Fifth and Final Season - Reactor
Captain Pike and his crew will close out with six final episodes.
reactormag.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I know this is a losing battle and yet! I will die on this hill:
SIX EPISODES IS NOT A SEASON IT IS A MINISERIES
SIX EPISODES IS NOT A SEASON IT IS A MINISERIES
The thing I realized as we put these lists together is that, regardless of subject matter or genre, I have 2 main desires: slapstick soulmate shenanigans or *gay ennui*
Even the stuff that didn't make the list pretty much always hit those two categories.
Even the stuff that didn't make the list pretty much always hit those two categories.
May 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The thing I realized as we put these lists together is that, regardless of subject matter or genre, I have 2 main desires: slapstick soulmate shenanigans or *gay ennui*
Even the stuff that didn't make the list pretty much always hit those two categories.
Even the stuff that didn't make the list pretty much always hit those two categories.
Anywho, here are all my Andor recaps in one place:
Andor recaps - Reactor
reactormag.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Anywho, here are all my Andor recaps in one place:
Those last twenty seconds nearly ruined the entire show for me. I'm going to pretend they never happened.
Andor’s Participation in One Tired Trope Is Uniquely Infuriating - Reactor
Those final shots really pull the rug out from under the whole thing.
reactormag.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Those last twenty seconds nearly ruined the entire show for me. I'm going to pretend they never happened.
Get thee to a theater, trust me, just go.
Mickey 17 Offers Catharsis in Uncertain Times - Reactor
What if there was a version of yourself who was actually willing to fight for you?
reactormag.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Get thee to a theater, trust me, just go.
My body is on some kinda quest to destroy me (that's unfair, it hasn't caught a break in well over a year), but I have to admit, there is nothing objectively funnier than sneezing while wearing a neck brace.
February 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My body is on some kinda quest to destroy me (that's unfair, it hasn't caught a break in well over a year), but I have to admit, there is nothing objectively funnier than sneezing while wearing a neck brace.
How'd everyone like the Thaddeus Ross movie where Captain America showed up sometimes? reactormag.com/captain-amer...
Captain America: Brave New World Seems Incredibly Afraid of Its Own Audience - Reactor
Weird how Captain America seems to be a backseat passenger in his own movie.
reactormag.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
How'd everyone like the Thaddeus Ross movie where Captain America showed up sometimes? reactormag.com/captain-amer...
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Lynch was a saint cloaked as a transgressor in a world full of transgressors cloaked as saints.
January 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Lynch was a saint cloaked as a transgressor in a world full of transgressors cloaked as saints.
This is the exact opposite of what this week needed.
David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78
Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.
variety.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is the exact opposite of what this week needed.
It just seems like folks have real strange ideas about what constitutes "holiday cheer" and "romance" and also "use of image consent."
Are We Gonna Talk About the Deeply Dystopian World of Hot Frosty? - Reactor
With a town sheriff who thinks he's starring in Die Hard and a love interest with the mind of a child, what's romantic about this?
reactormag.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:46 PM
It just seems like folks have real strange ideas about what constitutes "holiday cheer" and "romance" and also "use of image consent."
Updated my voter registration!
Which is wildly difficult to figure out when you've got a name change in NY (it's in a very weird place and the website only suggests you go change it in person, which, no), and these past weeks have been *rough* so this is my major win for the time being.
Which is wildly difficult to figure out when you've got a name change in NY (it's in a very weird place and the website only suggests you go change it in person, which, no), and these past weeks have been *rough* so this is my major win for the time being.
September 23, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Updated my voter registration!
Which is wildly difficult to figure out when you've got a name change in NY (it's in a very weird place and the website only suggests you go change it in person, which, no), and these past weeks have been *rough* so this is my major win for the time being.
Which is wildly difficult to figure out when you've got a name change in NY (it's in a very weird place and the website only suggests you go change it in person, which, no), and these past weeks have been *rough* so this is my major win for the time being.
James Earl Jones was supposed to live forever, what the FUCk is going on here.
September 9, 2024 at 9:00 PM
James Earl Jones was supposed to live forever, what the FUCk is going on here.
It's so cool what you can do when you want to be creative with your pals instead of pressuring everyone to make a billion dollars in a weekend?
...That's probably not the takeaway they wanted me to have.
...That's probably not the takeaway they wanted me to have.
Against All Odds, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Shows Us How to Make Sequeldom Fun - Reactor
We still want to be strange, I see? Okay. Let’s go.
reactormag.com
September 6, 2024 at 7:34 PM
It's so cool what you can do when you want to be creative with your pals instead of pressuring everyone to make a billion dollars in a weekend?
...That's probably not the takeaway they wanted me to have.
...That's probably not the takeaway they wanted me to have.
Hope you wanna hear about that Megalopolis trailer clusterfuck because my brain will NOT shut up about it.
That Megalopolis Trailer Snafu Sure Could Teach Us a Lot About Art Criticism - Reactor
Let's talk about that extremely awkward marketing decision, and what it says about our relationship to cultural criticism.
reactormag.com
August 29, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Hope you wanna hear about that Megalopolis trailer clusterfuck because my brain will NOT shut up about it.
Hi this is my Joker origin story??
Brothers. Dorian and Basil are being made into BROTHERS.
Brothers. Dorian and Basil are being made into BROTHERS.
Modern ‘Dorian Gray’ Series In Works At Netflix From Katie Rose Rogers, Rina Mimoun & Berlanti Prods.
The Picture Of Dorian Gray is getting a TV series treatment with The Grays, which is in development at Netflix. It hails from Berlanti Productions.
deadline.com
August 22, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Hi this is my Joker origin story??
Brothers. Dorian and Basil are being made into BROTHERS.
Brothers. Dorian and Basil are being made into BROTHERS.
This is all we can talk about this morning
1. no one is required to like your art, Francis.
2. Ebert was right about Dracula and it's FINE to do style over substance sometimes! that shit had buckets of style!
3. YOU FUCKING WON, DUDE, YOU ARE REVERED, YOU WON THE OSCARS, LEAVE PAULINE KAEL ALONE
2. Ebert was right about Dracula and it's FINE to do style over substance sometimes! that shit had buckets of style!
3. YOU FUCKING WON, DUDE, YOU ARE REVERED, YOU WON THE OSCARS, LEAVE PAULINE KAEL ALONE
August 21, 2024 at 1:45 PM
This is all we can talk about this morning
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You have to love these flaccid Calvinist hot takes by highly successful people. Systemic inequality is good, actually, bc it allows the elect to demonstrate their profound virtue and genius. If you are truly pious, you will achieve prosperity via God's special underwear gnome economics
June 14, 2024 at 6:09 PM
You have to love these flaccid Calvinist hot takes by highly successful people. Systemic inequality is good, actually, bc it allows the elect to demonstrate their profound virtue and genius. If you are truly pious, you will achieve prosperity via God's special underwear gnome economics
NEW FROG AND TOAD JUST DROPPED
June 7, 2024 at 5:00 PM
NEW FROG AND TOAD JUST DROPPED
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If you, like me, have not finished your Hugo nominations yet, I hope you might consider nominating my Reactor column, Mark as Read, for Best Related Work. Here's a little thread of some of the 2023 pieces I'm fondest or proudest of, starting with "On Learning to Read Generously"
On Learning to Read Generously - Reactor
The first book I remember being disappointed by lives in my memory only as a vague, wishy-washy watercolor image, a cover that was as much of a Tolkien knockoff as the story inside. I was indiscrimina...
reactormag.com
March 7, 2024 at 10:43 PM
If you, like me, have not finished your Hugo nominations yet, I hope you might consider nominating my Reactor column, Mark as Read, for Best Related Work. Here's a little thread of some of the 2023 pieces I'm fondest or proudest of, starting with "On Learning to Read Generously"