Television

Mean Girls and the problem with lazy diversification

Diversity was a top priority for the 2024 movie-musical adaptation of Mean Girls, but how effective is representation politics when marginalised characters are consistently mistreated or underdeveloped on the big screen?

Film & TV

Jan 16, 2024

Halima Jibril

Life & Culture

Countess Luann: ‘If you think you’re ripe, you’re already rotten’

To celebrate the Real Housewives of New York City star bringing her cabaret show to the UK for the Mighty Hoopla festival, Countess Luann de Lesseps gives Dazed some lessons in class, elegance, fashion and accessing the quantum realm

Life & Culture

Nov 23, 2023

Alim Kheraj

Film & TV

This is How the World Ends: the story behind Gregg Araki’s lost TV pilot

‘Like Twin Peaks meets Dawson’s Creek’: The cult filmmaker shares the history of This Is How The World Ends, the ultimate Y2K high school comedy-drama that never was

Film & TV

Sep 29, 2023

James Balmont

Film & TV

Accused, the new Netflix film exploring the perils of online vigilantism

Sex Education star Chaneil Kular discusses his first leading film role as a young man falsely accused of being a terrorist

Film & TV

Sep 20, 2023

Sian Bradley

Film & TV

Why everyone is watching shows and films on Tiktok now

Increasing numbers of users are watching entire films and TV shows via clips posted to the app – but why?

Film & TV

Sep 11, 2023

Serena Smith

Life & Culture

These are not men! These are just teenage girls

Kendall wanting his daddy in Succession? Girly! Richie in The Bear cry-singing to Taylor Swift? Girly! More and more men in pop culture are sensitive, sad and consistently unsure of themselves

Life & Culture

Jul 13, 2023

Halima Jibril

Film & TV

Charlie Brooker on Black Mirror and the ‘powerful advantages’ of AI

As Black Mirror returns to Netflix this week, its creator discusses how far its come and whether the future is really as bleak as it seems

Film & TV

Jun 16, 2023

Nick Chen

Film & TV

I Kissed A Boy is real gay life, laid bare on television

Writer Sean O’Neill investigates whether the new BBC Three dating show, billed as a ‘queer Love Island’, can liberate him from the scepticism of his own kind

Film & TV

May 19, 2023

Sean O'Neill

Film & TV

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Shiv Roy is not the most evil character on Succession

The Roys are all as bad as each other – and holding Shiv to a higher standard reeks of misogyny, argues Haaniyah Angus

Film & TV

May 18, 2023

Haaniyah Angus

Film & TV

Has the world become too dystopian for Black Mirror?

The show’s sixth season is being released this summer – but as reality gets increasingly bleaker and more surreal, are we past the point of satire?

Film & TV

Apr 28, 2023

James Greig

Film & TV

Swarm, social media, and lessons from stanning too close to the sun

The reception of Janine Nabers’ and Donald Glover’s new project proves just how apt its skewering of fan obsession and the cult of celebrity really is

Film & TV

Apr 04, 2023

Vanessa Hsieh

Life & Culture

Paul O’Grady dressed as his drag queen alter ago Lily Savage

Remembering Paul O’Grady, the anarchic gay performer who infiltrated UK TV

In the wake of his death, Shon Faye writes a tribute to the pillar of culture and beloved national treasure who never sacrificed his opinions, his personality, his gayness in return for his rise to becoming a household name

Life & Culture

Mar 29, 2023

Shon Faye

Film & TV