**very mild spoilers to follow** After the end of Westworld’s first season I wasn’t sure exactly what the show was going to do. It’s a mystery based fiction, bouncing ideas around and seeing if the audience can discern which ones should be sticking. The end of season one essentially put…
As Avengers: Infinity War finished and the theater lights came up I was already past anger and working my way towards acceptance of what I had just seen. There were parts of the movie that felt weak but overall it was absolutely at the level of average Marvel fare. The…
I’m so unprepared this year! Due to a lot going on in life, I didn’t have time to watch either of the semi-finals or even pregame with the official music videos! So that means I’m going into the finals 100% cold. I feel both unprepared and excited. I haven’t gone into…
Sometimes there’s a strange serendipity that happens in culture and pop-culture. There are times when things line up, like when movies come out in perfectly matching pairs about such random things as asteroids, ants, volcanoes, androids, and mars. And then there are times when two things absolutely perfect for each…
This past October I went through my annual horror binge. Horror is a strange genre as far as production goes, as it’s this sort of catch-all that covers all sorts of things. Since it’s an emotion (even romance is technically a verb), it’s incredibly subjective. The focus can be on…
Okay, I’m going to start by undercutting my title: Eerie Indiana didn’t actually make me who I am. But it was still super important. It’s a little weird, but then again, so is the show. Eerie, Indiana is a scifi/fantasy/horror kids show from 1991. It ran for one season (19…
Ideas tend to crop up in pop culture over and over, as fast as they become irrelevant, can just as quickly they become relevant once more. Vampires can represent a repressed Victorian sexuality, or the roiling power of young adulthood. Robots can be the cold, inhuman force of communism, or combined…
There had been rumors rolling around the internet that The Orville wouldn’t really have an example of what sort of show it would be until the third episode. Critics were given the first three and, while full reviews didn’t pop up immediately, word was that was the episode when The…
I finally got around to watching Iron Fist and, well, it’s a show. I can certainly say that. There have been a ton of think-pieces written already so I figured I’d throw it on in the background to hate-watch at night. I started taking notes because the density of wrongness…
Hulu’s first season of The Handmaid’s Tale has come to an end, but that doesn’t mean your feminist TV has to come to an end. In fact, right on Hulu is another kick-ass show about women’s sexuality and autonomy. It’s also about men trying to exert power over them. Also…
Here we are. Everything that we’ve been preparing for, for the past two evening spread across this pas week, have come to a head. This Eurovision competition, part American Idol, part Olympics, Part UN, and part Hunger Games, is all for this. Tonight’s new competitors are the biggest sponsors (UK,…
And we’re back for night two. Like the populace that watched rapt for 75 consecutive Hunger Games, we’re back for our well deserved bread and circus. So what does the night have in store for us? Let’s jump in! Russia – Julia Samoylova3 – “Flame Is Burning” Just kidding. Russia didn’t…
