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Pop Culture

Never Meet Your Heroes

The point made by the gap between the professed morality of superheroes and the actuality that lies behind Vought’s branding in The Boys is not particularly subtle or pioneering, but I think it is an important one in the world of parasocial relationships. A parasocial relationship is a one-sided relationship experienced by an audience member with a celebrity or some kind of performer in media.

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Opinion

Grieving Someone I Never Met

In this Op-Ed, Leslie Guzmán explains the complicated grief of losing someone she never met.