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this was my absolute FAVORITE childhood movie. my mother had two selena albums, and this one DVD. this was my childhood repeat movie, along with the skip-prone portable CD players of the age with my stolen albums. as an adult, it ends extremely abruptly for a biopic. but, in some way, it’s appropriate. i think it honors her legacy and her impact beyond herself more than it focuses on her death. i love that. i found the shots of children especially moving, because that was me as a little child. i was that kid literally shouting along to bidi bidi bom bom, to everyone’s annoyance. the acting is decidedly worse than i remember. but that also might be a product of script. but god, beyond the leads? they killed it. cinematography is standard for the period. this is a deeply sad, beautiful little film. i found myself loving it just as much as i did when i was 6. i thought i had rose tinted my way into loving this movie, but no. it’s genuinely just…fantastic. it’s a moving tribute to an all time legend. 10/10

Funny, occasionally disarmingly poignant, and an amazing cast. Every character is a standout in their own right. The show knows its setting. This feels like the mainstream queer ATX scene, at least as an adult. The pacing itself is a little stilted, but I'm fond of it. Jokes are either 'aaaugggh...haha" cringe-observationals or Parks&Rec character gags. I like it. It's a comfortable watch. As far as agendas....it's literally the most politically removed show I can think of that still manages to base itself in reality. Leftists (especially in Texas) are generally very aware of Markie's very valid points in an episode surrounding guns and gun safety. It's Texas, you can't deny the reality of living with guns. Might as well teach kids safety. (I agree!) On the other hand, our protagonist is extremely anti-gun in any capacity insofar as schools go. It feels and is written as a traumatized, emotional response to the national violence the US experiences in its schools, which is not only empathetic, but entirely within the realm of realism. There's logic, sure, but that's not necessarily where Evan is truly coming from. He just doesn't want to be another school shooting. This is especially poignant after Uvalde. Evan has been consistently written as a human being with emotional responses that don't always follow a straight line of pure logic. He's neither right nor wrong within the show, he just is. The teacher's meeting within that episode and the abundance of mixed responses to every announcement is testament to that. Evan is gay. The story follows a gay man navigating a left-of-center city in a very right wing state. I feel like I know this guy. It's Austin, which is Texas which is polarized which is Mind Your Business. It really is a weird city filled with a ton of people all crawling over each other and pretending not to be bothered. Urban Texas is, person to person, an extremely kind place filled with a lot of cognitive dissonance. This show captures that in spades. There is no agenda. There might be bias, sure, but it's human bias. The show does not attempt to sanitize any viewpoint. It's literally as centrist as you can get, Overton windows and such notwithstanding. But it's really a wonderful show that I'd love to see reach as many seasons as intended. Like it or no, the show is sincere in its storytelling. And that is charming in its own right. also like Malcom can i give u my number we could be so good together