I was excited when Rachel McAdams was cast for True Detectives, not because of the whole female characters controversy from the first season (not because I don’t see that as an issue but I knew adding a female lead wouldn’t suddenly make the show feminist or unproblematic or whatever you want.  I think these are important things to discuss as a cultural issue, I am not sure they are necessarily always valid criticisms of arts quality, just valid criticisms of the culture as a whole) but because I happen to like Rachel McAdams and never see her in anything. She largely sticks to the Rom-Com circuit and that’s not my bag.  I am not one to impugn an entire genre so I am going to impugn an entire genre here, by and large Rom Coms are the most guilty of the thing I like the least in art and that is striving for mediocrity..  I watch a lot of bad movies but by and large the bad movies I watch are not cynical, they are not calculating, they are full of passion and people who just weren’t talented enough to make something good.  But I am moved by the passion, by the desire to create.  A lot of mainstream movies, and Rom Coms do seem to be the most guilty of this, have no passion, they are cold, soulless calculations that don’t try to be good.  They don’t want to be good.  They don’t want to be anyone’s favorite movie and they have no interest in being great.  They are made by skilled craftsmen so they never look amateurish, they are never bad, but they don’t try to be good, they try to be inoffensive and bland and entirely forgettable.  Every genre has this, look at any horror movie that tries to capitalize on the success of a great horror movie, but it always seemed like Rom Coms are built on this entirely.  I realize I went off on a bit of a tangent there but you know… you should be used to it by now.  Anyway, thus I don’t see a lot of Rachel McAdams and it’s a shame.  Because I like her.  So when it was announced she had been cast I was sure she’d show up some Monday.  Today is that Monday.  Today I want to fuck Rachel McAdams.