History WebVideo / MaggieMaeFish

One of her channel's subseries is ''Movies in Conversation'', in which she picks two pieces of media and analyzes what they say together or how they contrast each other. Also, on Nebula, she has another subseries titeld ''Unrated'', where she looks at the history of sex scenes throughout the history of cinema.

One of her channel's subseries is ''Movies in Conversation'', in which she picks two pieces of media and analyzes what they say together or how they contrast each other.

* ItsPersonal: In her video about ''Motel Makeover'', where a pair of entrepreneurs buy motels in small, tourism-driven towns and try to fix them up and run them, she says the show and its attitude towards such small towns reminds her of St. Joseph, the coastal Michigan in which she grew up, so it hits close to home for her.

* PoesLaw: Her video "Why Conservative 'Comedy' Fails: Creator/RobSchneider vs [[Creator/TimandEric Tim Heidecker]]" contrasts Heidecker's standup act, in which he plays an oblivious, entitled standup comedian making casually sexist jokes, to Schneider's standups and his self-funded sitcom ''Real Rob'', in which he makes many of the same kind of jokes completely unironically.

* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: In "[[https://youtu.be/rGnQVUW9z4M?si=-7ejrkstpq7b1wak The Dystopian Existential Nightmare of Motel Makeover]]",[[note]]Later retitled "The White (literally) Nightmare of ''Motel Makeover''"[[/note]] she talks about the two hosts/subjects, April and Sarah, who are trying to run a business of buying motels, fixing them up and running them as a chain business, despite having no real experience in hospitality, construction or interior decoration, with predictable results. She uses this as an example of how detached the wealthy can be when it comes to knowing the personal and economic issues others have, illustrated by them not understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic will delay their construction project and them saying they are "losing money" when what's really happening is their income is just delayed and they won't go broke anytime soon.

* FreudWasRight: In ''"CATS! And the Weird Mind of TS Eliot"'', Maggie points out that among many of Eliot's weird ideas, is that only women should be penetrated. Not only sexually but in anything. She shows that a biography points out that he saw an uncomfortable eroticism in paintings of Saint Sebastian being impaled by arrows and saying that it should be a woman, not a man.

* TakeThat: She describes the villain of ''Film/{{Cats}}'', Macavity, as the Joe Biden of the Cats Universe.
* UnusualEuphemism: In her video "The Dystopian Existential Nightmare of Motel Makeover", she refers to the COVID-19 pandemic as "the lobster roll" in order to avoid getting the video demonetized.

* SelfMadeMan: In ''"Jaclyn Hill, Lipstick and Capitalism: A Love Story"'', she refutes the "rags to riches" kind of story by pointing out that it often hides the advantages one has when telling that story. She points out that while Jaclyn's story about being the daughter of farmers is technically true, she is skipping the fact that they're really big farmers, with 700 acres of property.

Much like other critics on the vein of ''Creator/LindsayEllis'', her videos are very deep dive and utilize the theory of theater and cinema, especially [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_reading Close Reading]] in order to analyze themes and techniques used in movies, as well as the people behind the work of media created.

* OutOfGenreExperience: ''Change'' is a video essay not focused on any particular movie or in analyzing its technical merits, though it does reference the works of Creator/JeanLucGodard (specifically the EpicTrackingShot of ''Film/{{Weekend}}'') and the TV show ''Series/{{Hoarders}}''. The video is much more personal and introspective, in which Maggie talks about her recent experience with grief after losing her grandmother and her dislike for things not changing.

* FanDumb[[invoked]]: In the prologue of her series about Zack Snyder, Maggie talks about the Snyder superfans that have become infamous on the internet for their worship of the man and his works. She recounts how she was the target of their ire earlier that year by tweeting about how there was islamophobia in the opening scenes of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'', and points out that a lot of their arguments against it reflects fundamental misunderstandings about the film making process, like the fact that they tried to blame Creator/JamesGunn, the movie's credited screenwriter, for that scene, even though he quit the project, and two other writers re-wrote the script before shootings. She also notes that they rarely properly attempted to address her criticisms.

* UnusualEuphemism: In her video "The Dystopian Existential Nightmare of Motel Makeover", she refers to the COVID-19 pandemic as "the lobster roll".

* DirtyCop: In ''"The Fyre Fest of Christian Films"'', Maggie argues the fact that the movie actually supports police corruption, as long as it benefits rich Christians. In the movie, a policeman that followed the criminal protagonist and is sure of his guilt stops following him and decides to give him a second chance after learning that the protagonist is now a church-going Christian. This is, ignoring the fact the cop already knows for a fact the man is guilty of multiple crimes and was going to arrest him up until he converted.

* StealthParody: The video ''"BEST Horror Movie Ever! -- My Octopus Teacher'', about a documentary journaling the filmmaker's year spent skin diving and an octopus he followed during this time, talks about it as if it's a terrifying horror movie about a self-centered man getting [[StalkerWithACrush unhealthily obsessed with a wild octopus]]. However, the video is really a visceral critique of how the filmmaker, as well as other people making documentaries, tend to [[ItsAllAboutMe make the subject all about themselves rather than really try to do them justice]].

Much like other critics on the vein of ''Creator/LindsayEllis'', her videos are very deep dive and utilize theory of theater and cinema, especially [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_reading Close Reading]] in order to analyze themes and techniques used in movies, as well as the people behind the work of media created.

* FanDumb[[invoked]]: In the prologue of her series about Zack Snyder, Maggie talks about the Snyder superfans that have become infamous on the internet for their worship of the man and his works. She recounts how she was the target of their ire earlier that year by tweeting about how there was islamophobia in the opening scenes of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'', and points out that a lot of their arguments against it reflects fundamental misunderstandings about the film making process, like the fact that they tried to blame James Gunn for that scene, even though he quit the project, and two other writers re-wrote the script before shootings. She also notes that they rarely properly attempted to address her criticisms.

* DirtyCop: In ''"The Fyre Fest of Christian Films"'', Maggie argues the fact that the movie actually supports police corruption, as long as it benefits rich Christians. In the movie, a police man that followed the criminal protagonist and is sure of his guilt stops following him and decide to give him a second chance after learning that the protagonist is now a church going Christian. This is, ignoring the fact the cop already knows for a fact the man is guilty of multiple crimes and was going to arrest him up until he converted.

** She has a multi-part series of videos analyzing Creator/ZackSnyder's filmography, the themes and visuals they spouse and what it says about his work.
** She has a three part series analyzing three christian films, ''Film/SavingChristmas'', ''Film/{{Fireproof}}'' and ''I'm in Love With A Church Girl'', both in how its messages are perverted by the materialistic message of Prosperity Gospel, that prioritizes money as a proof of love from God and from others.

* AccidentalAesop:[[invoked]] She argues that the play and, especially, the film adaptation of the play ''Film/{{Cats}}'' are readable as a satire and ridicule of fascist ideas. Both take the fascist ideas that T S Elliot had himself and let it bleed on his work, which includes the death cult elements of the story, and play it in such an odd way, to such a bizarre degree that one can come out of it thinking that Eliot's fascist ideas are, indeed, ridiculous.

* MultiPartEpisode: She has a multi-part series of videos analyzing Creator/ZackSnyder's filmography, the themes and visuals they spouse and what it says about his work.

* RomantizizedAbuse: She points out how the movie ''Film/{{Fireproof}}'' contains examples of spiritual and economic abuse being portrayed as romantic, especially the protagonist using money to purchase her love and treating their wedding as a transaction, not to mention that he is coded as being physically abusive to her as well. The movie also explicitly downplays the importance of feelings and communication in a relationship.

* AccidentalAesop: She argues that the play and, especially, the film adaptation of the play ''Film/{{Cats}}'' are readable as a satire and ridicule of fascist ideas. Both take the fascist ideas that T S Elliot had himself and let it bleed on his work, which includes the death cult elements of the story, and play it in such an odd way, to such a bizarre degree that one can come out of it thinking that Eliot's fascist ideas are, indeed, ridiculous.

* DomesticAbuse: She points out how the movie ''Film/{{Fireproof}}'' contains examples of spiritual and economic abuse.

* TakeThat: She describes the villain of ''Film/{{Cats}}'', Mackavity, as the Joe Biden of the Cats Universe.