“Voting with your wallet isn’t a new idea. It also doesn’t feel particularly useful unless millions of people do it all at once. Am I going to organize a nationwide boycott of films without women at the top of the production credits? Probably not. I have a full-time job, and we will have plenty of more pressing nationwide issues to grapple with in 2017. Am I going to cop to buying a Ghostbusters ticket every time I went to the movies this summer, regardless of which theater I actually went into? No! Inappropriate, and possibly illegal.

But in the new year, I can choose to spend my money in a way that shapes my reality, and in a very tiny way, supports filmmakers who face an uphill battle every day in an industry that is actively trying to spit them out.”

— Kaitlyn Tiffany for The Verge

“The Bachelor producers know the potential of good reality television, but respect the ratings power of its trashy first decade, and the byproduct is a surreal rollercoaster ride through snark and smarm, cynical fame-grabbing and emotional unloading. In one episode, one contestant will break into song for any music agents in the audience, another contestant will open up about a history of abuse, and another will dress up as a human-sized cupcake. Recent seasons have played out like the history of modern reality television, regularly in existential battle with itself.” 

— Chris Plante for The Verge