Justice for Margaret Cho’s too-good-for-its-time sitcom All American girl! Okay, it certainly wasn’t perfect, but it was the first primetime sitcom to feature an Asian-American family, and Cho has rarely gotten the credit she deserves for her groundbreaking perspectives on cultural identity and queerness.
Melissa McCarthy
If I think too long about Melissa McCarthy’s statement “I’m not going to say I survived…I’m going to say I thrived” in the 2011 film Bridesmaids, I still get the giggles. No less an authority than Mindy Kaling extolled the virtues of the Gilmore Girls alum’s performance, writing in her debut memoir, Is everyone hanging out without me?“You don’t hear the words often fascinating And disgusting used to describe the same character in a movie, but Melissa McCarthy managed to evoke both in the very best of ways. Totally agree.
