Pop Culture Fix: Let’s Keep Talking About “The Half Of It” Forever

Lo, a Pop Culture Fix hath arrived for your Monday!

+ Hey, have you watched The Half Of It yet? You should! You sure should!

+ The New York Times profiled Alice Wu and talked about the journey from Saving Face to her new film.

+ 🍍🦉🐛

.@thatalicewu’s director's note on THE HALF OF IT is so wonderfully written it deserves to be read in full (thread): pic.twitter.com/ZRiB43XgBQ

— Netflix Tudum (@NetflixTudum) May 2, 2020

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+ The Half of It star Leah Lewis chatted with Elle about the film and the transformational process of working with Alice Wu.

+ The Half of It won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature at Tribeca (online viewing and voting this year).

+ Patty Jenkins has sold a pitch for an Amazonian Wonder Woman spin-off.

+ The Horniest Episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess.

+ The Television Critics Association has cancelled its summer press tour.

+ Were Hattie McDaniel and Tallulah Bankhead really an item as Janet Mock’s Hollywood portrays them?

+ The final trailer for the final season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. (This theme song remix fucked me up, y’all.)

+ Netflix promises it won’t run out of content.

+ Looks like Ryan Murphy’s The Politician sneaked in under the coronavirus wire.

+ Why rewriting Hollywood is personal for Janet Mock and Ryan Murphy.

+ The Indigo Girls have released a new song about growing up in a small town. 

+ Janelle Monae’s horror film, Antebellum, is slated for release in August.

+ Excuse me, what, there’s new Adventure Time episodes coming to HBO, including one dedicated solely to Marceline and Princess Bubblegum?!?!!!!

+ Looks like Hush is the final big bad of Batwoman’s freshman season. (Sorry if seeing the word Hush capitalized like that gives you PTSD!)