Mary Kay McBrayer Jul 10, 2019 8 min Should We Be Okay with the New ALADDIN? (originally published on BookRiot.com) My nostalgia for the 1992 Disney cartoon of Aladdin runs deep—so deep that I remember being bathed...
Mary Kay McBrayer May 17, 2019 13 min The 8 Most Memorable Murders on The Sopranos ... and Why They Sting What makes some murders on The Sopranos so much more memorable than others? And which ones stand out the most?
Mary Kay McBrayer May 3, 2019 4 min 6 Reasons GOT's White Walkers are Scarier than Your Average Zombie True to form, the White Walkers--or wights, as they are sometimes called--are resurrected bodies. Technically, by that definition alone,...
Mary Kay McBrayer Apr 26, 2018 7 min Southern Gothic Revisited in “Teddy Perkins” on Atlanta: Great Things Come from Great Pain There’s a bubble of gentrification and un-self-awareness that exists in Atlanta proper that bursts in a really unflattering way when you...
Mary Kay McBrayer Apr 13, 2018 10 min They're Gonna Find Them Because I Gasped (A Conversation about A Quiet Place) In this post, Mary Kay from Everything Trying to Kill You and Emily from Book Squad Goals talk about John Kraskinski's new film, A Quiet...
Mary Kay McBrayer Feb 28, 2018 7 min 6 Reasons why Annihilation is Horror: HeLa Cell Fan-fiction plus Aliens Behold! six reasons why Annihilation is more horror than science fiction. 1. How long do I need to process what just happened to me? Like...
Mary Kay McBrayer Dec 21, 2017 9 min SEQUIN GOWN & TALONS, A LOVE STORY: THE SHAPE OF WATER When I was a kid, I was Belle from Beauty and the Beast because I read too much, was a little weird, and loved my dad a lot. But now that...
Mary Kay McBrayer Dec 8, 2017 13 min LADIES DON'T BEAT THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF PEOPLE: MILDRED'S COCKTAIL IN THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING I love it when women get to show their asses in the name of justice. In case you're unfamiliar with the term "show my ass," here's how...
Mary Kay McBrayer Nov 10, 2017 9 min "WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS?" // THOUGHTS ON YORGOS LANTHIMOS' KILLING OF A SACRED DEER. I try really hard not to shit on anybody else's art because "good" isn't determined by what I like and don't like. That said, I also...
Mary Kay McBrayer Jul 29, 2017 15 min GETTING STARTED WITH THE APOCALYPSE IN MOTHER! I don't often get into my car after a movie and start crying and NOT know why. Because of life, sure, all the time, NBD, but not because...