Critical Hits and Misses #8: August 5, 2016

Genevieve Valentine writes about Stranger Things; the way it succeeds in its nostalgia, and the way it fails its female characters. (Tova)

Valentine’s twitter thread on the responses she’s received to the article, and the strange notion that you can’t criticize a thing you love, is also worth a read.  (Tova)

Meagan Damore at CBR explores how The Killing Joke could have avoided objectifying Batgirl. (Megan)

Love Suicide Squad? Read about Kim Yale, the unsung heroine that helped make Suicide Squad happen back in the 1980s.  (Ivonne)

This video from Above Average is about cliches for female characters in movies. (Zachary)