Alex Cranz
Editor in Chief
After overcoming a tragic gaming addiction, writing for major industry news sources and Lifetime and training her dog to do fist bumps Alex launched FemPop to create a place where people could talk about gender and movies and television and games and junk.
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Star Trek Into Darkness Is A Most Excellent Star Trek Parody
1 Comment »Posted in ReviewsMay 21, 2013
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This isn’t a Star Trek spoof for a Star Trek lover (please see Galaxy Quest). This is a spoof of a spoof. It’s like the Russian nesting dolls of the general population’s expectations of Star Trek and Hollywood.
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The Grey’s Anatomy Finale Circles Back Around To The Beginning Of The Season
7 Comments »Posted in Grey's AnatomyMay 20, 2013
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There’s this interesting little note concerning Grey’s Anatomy: if you watch the premiere you will have all the tools you need to anticipate the finale each season. In the 9th season finale that idea the each premiere informs the finale has never been better illustrated.
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Once Upon A Time Gets Gayer Than A Rizzles and Johnlock Ham Sandwich In The Finale
No comments yetPosted in Once Upon A TimeMay 13, 2013
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To take the relationship from a simmering subtext to blatant main text is completely in line with the show’s mission to redefine fairytales and dole out happy endings like candy. Two ladies uniting in love for their son (and possibly each other yes please) is just a logical as hell next step.
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Once Upon A Time Gets Crazy When Torture and Flying Shadows Are Afoot
No comments yetPosted in Once Upon A TimeMay 12, 2013
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A recap of the 21st episode of the 2nd season of Once Upon a Time, “Second Star To the Right.” Regina is tortured, Snow learns empathy and Baelfire finally gets his episode.
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A Is For Arizona And Adultery: A Meditation On A Central Theme In Grey’s Anatomy
15 Comments »Posted in Grey's AnatomyMay 10, 2013
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Rhimes’ show is obsessed with these betrayals, the most fundamental of betrayals. Adultery is the most horrific of emotional crimes one can commit against another and she uses it to pry apart these characters and expose the roots of them.
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Snow and Regina Prove To Be The Core Of Once Upon A Time In “The Evil Queen”
No comments yetPosted in Once Upon A TimeMay 5, 2013
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So Regina flees and Snow weeps for the mother figure destroyed and her own innocence violated and it never rings quite true, because this show has, at some point, decided that making Snow White/Mary Margaret anything more than a foil for Regina and a wet blanket for Emma would be intolerable.
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Grey’s Anatomy Blazes Back With Hot Guys In Hoodies And Affairs Of The Heart
3 Comments »Posted in Grey's AnatomyMay 3, 2013
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While the show is setting up a little love triangle it’s also addressing a problem stewing all season, and that’s Arizona’s self-image. It is in the dirt and has been since her leg was amputated. And now here is a woman that doesn’t know her and finds her attractive.
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Lost Girl’s Final Two Episodes Put Their Best Blond Feet Forward
2 Comments »Posted in Lost GirlApr 26, 2013
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But because Lauren has been developed as an honest to god character this season everything she says that is so brutally true rings a little false. She’s developed so much that there is no question of her loyalties.
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Emma And Belle Both Lose Themselves And Find New Wardrobe In Once Upon A Time
1 Comment »Posted in Once Upon A TimeApr 22, 2013
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Emma doesn’t know her well enough or feel secure enough in their relationship to say “you may wear hats because it helps after you got that haircut that makes your ears look crazy huge but I look pretty okay with some Aquanet and a curling iron so let’s call it a day.”
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Lady-Centric Zombie Comic By Terry Moore Gets TV Adaptation
3 Comments »Posted in TelevisionApr 18, 2013
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Terry Moore’s award winning comic, Rachel Rising, about a dead woman hunting her own murder, gets optioned as a television show. Will this be the Terry Moore project that actually gets made?

















