These characters won't back down.

Anne Hathaway continues to prove she was undeserving of the incredible amount of hate she endured for years by owning up to a past mistake.

It's that wonderful time of the year when we get to celebrate all of the great things that came out of the internet.

A new Beauty and the Beast parody proves that Belle is boujee as hell.

If you’re able to admit that your favorite show has a serious problem with gratuitous and poorly executed rape scenes, you’ll be better able to admit that hey, maybe you need to do more than wear a safety pin to help those who are endangered by the incoming Trump administration.

We're living in a time when just about anything can be turned into a musical, and many shows try to have a "musical episode." Well, it seems the folks at The Late, Late Show with James Corden want to help the creators of Stranger Things and Game of Thrones along. They even pay homage to Breaking Bad! Join Corden, along with guests Alan Cumming and Jesse Tyler Ferguson as they perform Inappropriate Musicals based on your favorite shows.

At the Television Critics Association summer press tour yesterday, new HBO President of Programming Casey Bloys took the stage in a question and answer session on behalf of the network. Moments into the Q&A, though, Bloys seemed unable or perhaps incapable of answering the questions that were posed regarding the decision of the network's shows to equip the plot device of sexualized violence against women.

Remember last January, when NBC hired a tech firm in order to figure out Netflix's viewership numbers, because Netflix refused to release them? Netflix is singing a different tune now.

Weekend Editor Carly Lane and Assistant Editors Jessica Lachenal and I got together for a chat about our feelings surrounding last season of Game of Thrones, and the recently-ended Season Six.

One super-crafty Nintendo fan has designed an impressive Mario Kart 8-themed nursery, following on the heels of beautifully designed Yoshi's Island and Zelda nurseries.

Last night, we shared a story about CONvergence and the strides they've made towards improving diversity and creating safe spaces at conventions. Through that story, we heard about a group of cosplayers who got together to recreate Cersei's shame walk from Game of Thrones. For some people there, and for people who caught wind of it through the shared Instagram video, it felt strongly like a statement supporting slut-shaming and misogyny.

If you really think sexual assault is necessary to motivate or precipitate hostility towards a character, maybe you're not doing writing right.

*Flips table.*

My wife Raychel is plus-sized, loves Baltimore and ‘60s music, and has been a racial-justice activist since before we met, so I was a little surprised when I recently found out she’d never seen Hairspray and had no interest in it. When I asked why, she told me it was because at this point she’d just learned to assume anything with a fat girl in it was mocking that character.

More prominent voices are speaking about about the current topic of sexual assault on TV. This time it's Hannibal's Bryan Fuller, who previously had a strong stance against it for his NBC series.

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[TW for discussion of rape] The Mary Sue will no longer be promoting HBO's Game of Thrones, but our editorial team will be making decisions on the newsworthiness of certain items as they arise. Earlier today our Editor in Chief Jill Pantozzi was asked to speak with CNN's Brooke Baldwin about our decision and what we think the series could have done differently.