The Reddest Eyes

For the past few months, I have not been able to stop thinking about I Saw The TV Glow. Written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun, the film stars Justice Smith in a career-defining performance as Owen, a painfully repressed suburban recluse whose reality begins to unravel when he discovers his favorite childhood TV show, The Pink Opaque, is realer than he and his best friend, Maddy (played by…

One thing you should know about me is I love black mess. As a bonafide cinephile, book worm, and binge watcher extraordinaire, I live for all forms of fictional media where black people get to be messes: to stumble, make bad decisions, regress, give into their worst impulses, get it wrong, fuck up, fail. Even when it’s bad—especially when it’s bad—any movie, series, book, song, or story with…