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Previously On JaTH – S01E05

Elaine Barlow
by: Elaine Barlow
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Summary

Elaine discusses Jem and The Holograms S1E5.
Watch On YouTube > https://youtu.be/Y_Y3nC428bQ

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Elaine Cosplay Pizzazz. Art by Christina Oei
Elaine Cosplay Pizzazz. Art by Christina Oei

Episode Air date: December 29, 1985
Malone investigates Jem to uncover her true identity and makes a discovery. Jem and the Holograms face this threat and the Misfits at the Battle of the Bands competition.

Episode 5 of Jem and the Holograms has SO MANY problems and the lions are ABSOLUTELY more than one. This episode has everything: Lions, locking children in trunks, lions, moral dilemmas, Working Girls, Jerrica getting slapped, 2BlackGeeks, lions, thick necks, holographic drug selling Golden Girls, bony asses, lions, Andre The Giant, and Britta Phillips singing the SHIT out of bad songs.

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A Note From Elaine

This is my experience, not yours.

I don’t write reviews perse. I write about MY EXPERIENCE with media. If it resembles a review that’s because I’m trying to communicate what media means to ME which has absolutely NOTHING to do with YOU. The existence of my experience doesn’t invalidate yours in any way. If you are triggered by what other people write about art, that is a YOU issue and you should seek help for your emotional dysregulation problem instead of attacking or bullying others for expressing their SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE with art. You are not the center. Yours is not the default experience.

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