Articles by K. B. Hoyle

With an MLM, you give yourself over; you sell yourself to the business because you are the product. They make money off you and if you make any money, it’s off your downline.

Certainly grief fatigue is real and present with so many of us right now, but even in the midst of ongoing, present tragedy, we must pause when we can to remember why life is sacred at all.

Shang-Chi’s actualization into an MCU superhero gives us a hero who comes from a culture that is more we-focused than me-focused, and I see that as a good thing.

The Suicide Squad is a genuinely bad movie because it plays on war and death for laughs in irreverent, dehumanizing ways.

What I discovered in My Last Name is a story that has continued to help me process not just the grief and disillusionment of these last several months, but diagnose some of our current cultural ills, as well. 

In her stand-alone film, Black Widow steps out of the shadows of an overly sexified characterization and becomes elevated.

With Bridgerton, viewers show up for an uncharacteristically steamy Regency romance that delivers on the tropes but also delivers a thoughtful exploration of female agency in male-dominated Regency England.

But the idea that people go through a stage of “friends as family” and then graduate into “real” family is one I find to be a less-good story.

As the months of the pandemic translated into far more hours spent inside and online than outside and in person, I have seen more ugliness—more meanness—in this world than ever before.

We don’t do “once upon a time,” and we don’t get to ask for a fairy godmother to save us; in America, we save ourselves. 

If a character or a story is the Ship of Theseus, how much needs to be reshot, re-edited, cut, arranged, and composed before the original story no longer exists? 

Stories aren’t “Christian” or “not Christian.” They either tell the truth or they don’t.

Agatha takes Wanda to therapy, and the show essentially takes its viewers to therapy, as well.

What is the thematic consistency that binds together all the stories of the MCU?

What James Herriot did as a vet—and what he does as a storyteller—he shows us the healing nature of healing nature.

Love of country is good, but love of country must never supersede love of God, and it’s only by loving God most that we can love our country in the way we should.