It's a truly baffling take.

100%. Her thesis was actually embargoed based on this, as well.

omg that's so lovely of you!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I'm doing so good! How are you? I would love to see you sometime when I'm in London!

😂 HELLO! I've missed you!

If you google Matthew Sweet/Naomi Wolf (the book was Outrages, based on her PhD thesis), it'll come up and it's worth hearing. It's embarrassing, and she never recovered from the humiliation, which began her rightward shift.

One of the characters is a Russian immigrant who makes frequent trips to a country where it is literally unsafe for him to be out, and they're both making their careers in a sport so homophobic that it has no out active NHL players. I'm not sure how this did not even merit a mention in your article.

One of the characters is also a Russian immigrant who has to go back to Russia between seasons. Russia, famously suuuuuper queer friendly and safe to be out Russia! 🙄

I'm glad you did! I found the article very frustrating. It was like, "okay that's nice, but this doesn't understand HOCKEY."

"I don't understand why you all don't just go to the nazi bar and argue with the nazis over food and drinks" as if people giving time and oxygen to these fucking fools isn't how we ended up here.

Ilya's slow mo turning around. TATU PLAYING!!!! The angsty wank cut with the sad missionary where they both only get off with thoughts of each other!!!!!! It was genuinely one of the best episodes that's graced my TV in a long time. I died. I hurt, and I loved every minute.

The club scene BROKE ME (it was cinema)

I was just shouting "YES!!!!!" while reading this

Christ, THANK YOU. The takes have been killing me!

Olivia, these people have lost their minds. I don't even know what this show has done to them.

Legitimately the weirdest hot take I've seen yet.

Bree, it's worth it. It's the standard by which all romance book adaptations will be compared to.

lol I'm not sure! I've been working on this for so long now, so it might be!