Summary

While it may be driven by well-worn formula, Jordan Firstman's Club Kid thrives on a deeply vulnerable and quietly charming emotional core. Tropes and clichés aren't necessarily a bad thing. It can be easy to consider them problems, especially if one consumes a lot of entertainment and storytelling, but the ultimate marker of a good story is how it uses the formulas. Sometimes genres blend together or get subverted, other times it comes down to grounding the unbelievable or having a distinct voice.

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