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I liked chunks of the film, but it rankled me that she framed the spouse as such a consolation-prize loser to make her heroine come off as sacrificial.

Hollywood transitioned out of that trope by letting women fight as long as they fought other women, conveniently inserting one bad girl for every heroine.

Agathe kind of stands in her own way, like many an Austen heroine.

For once, the show that normalized the idea of the homosexual man as an accessory is letting us know that its high-heeled heroines are not the suns around which all of gaydom revolves.

Our heroine wonders: “Will it be legal to poison, mutilate, or infect people — as long as you provide them with food, water, and a space to die?”