Yes. You Are Boring.

MJ Adia
2 min readNov 19, 2021

Riley in Midnight Mass is White Male Boring Summer

White man leaning back in chair, words “boring” beside him
Photo by cottonbro from Pexels, Adapted by Author on Canva

I’m gonna sound like a hater right now, but I promise you, I’m not. Well, maybe just a little. I just have to wonder, how many times will cinema place a very boring white man as the protagonist? I mean, someone who gets to walk around sulkily, say lackluster lines, exude zero personality, and still take up the whole screen in almost all of the shots? I’m exaggerating again. In…

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MJ Adia

Black-Filipina. Lived in Peru for 5 years. LICSW, dancer, meditator. Writes about multiculturalism, cinema, race, social issues.