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May mailbag

This month: Sinners! RPGs! Early sitcom representations of trans people!
Hailee Steinfeld and Michael B. Jordan star in Sinners. They're in an embrace, heads tilted back in ecstasy, in a wood-paneled room.
Sinners is undeniably sexy, but is that a big part of why people are seeing it? (Credit: Warner Bros.)

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