Awesome / The Dom Reviews

• His deep research into how BDSM actually works in his pre-review of Fifty Shades of Grey, including saying that Christian Grey checks off almost all lists of being an abusive partner he got from various psychological organizations. He also promised to donate the ad revenue from his review proper to organizations that help abused partners.
• He and Terrence (okay, so technically just him since they're the same person) call out the overwhelming love for Severus Snape and how he was "Good All Along." He points out that it doesn't matter that he was in love with someone, he was a bully who targeted people who had done him no wrong, to the point where he openly states Neville might have become just as dumb and useless as Snape liked to make him out to be just from the bullying. He might think that Alan Rickman played the character well, and that the "Always" line gives him feelings, but it doesn't diminish his opinion that Snape was absolutely awful.
  • He additionally adds that he does acknowledge that Snape's actions eventually contributed greatly to the fall of Voldemort, it's just that all of his actions that didn't pertain to that goal showed that he was a bully. He offers a challenge- talk about Snape's actions towards Harry and Nevile to an actual teacher, and he guarantees that that educator's face will go white with horror.
• In his The Phantom of the Opera reviews, doing barbershop quartet versions of "The Music of the Night" in the latter two videos, with himself.
• He did a charity event to raise money for the ACLU, expecting it to only achieve around 250 dollars. It hit 20,000 before the stream even started and hit 25,000 during the technical difficulties which lasted an hour and a half, leading to the stream being delayed for a week.
• He decided to sever ties between Lost in Adaptation and Harry Potter over J. K. Rowling's transphobia, despite his overwhelming love for the franchise.
  • On top of this, Terrence disposes of his wands and is looking pensive until he gets a letter from his father. It turns out that he isn't a Half-blood, he's a Half-Blood.
• During his review of Good Omens (2019) he was surprised like everyone else it would be getting a season 2. While he admits it may not be as good as the first season, he's looking forward to seeing what content of Terry Pratchett's is left in, as it mean there will still be some of his writing left.
  • Earlier when retelling how Neil Gaiman jumped onto co-writing Good Omens with Terry Pratchett to being like, "Michelangelo phoning me to ask if I wanted to paint a ceiling together".
• His episode on The Room (2003), which supposedly covers the obscure 1976 Polish novel it was based on, The Room I Died In. Of course, given that the author of this book is named Prima Aprillis, viewers are already likely aware of the video's true nature. And yet, Dom plays it completely straight till the very end, not even signing off with a jovial "April fools!" as is tradition for the holiday. The episode is structured like every other in the series (complete with a song by Il Neige that's about what happens in the "book" like in the other songs), the "source material" re-contextualizes infamous moments from the film in a realistic manner that avoids tipping its hand with obvious absurdism (Dom doesn't invent a re-contextual reason for the prominent spoon imagery in the film, for example), and the "book's" "author" has a detailed history, complete with a photo and fictional covers for other books that he's written^note complete with multiple subtle hints at the nature of the video: aside from the author's name, the book titles all translate from Polish to names along the lines of "fake title", and the "author photo" is a greyscale picture of Overly Sarcastic Productions' Blue, with a beard edited on. The result is a video that's not only hilarious for those in on the joke, but also a successful prank that actually managed to fool people!
  • His later episode of The Disaster Artist, where he calls out Tommy Wiseau's abusive behavior towards Greg Sestero and the rest of the cast and crew of The Room (2003)
    Dom: He doesn't deserve fans. Even if they're laughing at him.
• The parody songs he commissions from Il Neige.
• Terrance's return for the Percy Jackson reviews, slicing open a portal with a sword, tossing away a cigarette, and greeting viewers with his new catchphrase.
  Terrance: Hello, Mortals.

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