If you’ve never seen an episode of Black Mirror, it’s hard to explain what it’s about, but I’m gonna try. Black Mirror is a sci-fi anthology show (with every episode currently streaming on Netflix) in which each episode focuses on a different set of characters and is set in a different world (although, the latter is up for debate), […]
Oh, The Walking Dead, I was not going to quit you. I loved your early seasons, blood and guts and all. I was heavily invested in your characters and your world. I willingly followed you from one safehold to another, rooted for your heroes when they came up against zombie hordes and power-hungry psychopaths and […]
I’m sure by now we’ve all heard the news that Stranger Things, everyone’s favorite summer obsession, has been renewed for a second season. After weeks of fans anxiously awaiting an official word from Netflix, a short teaser was released, confirming that the new episodes would take place in the fall of 1984, a year after the […]
If you’re anything like us, you’ve spent the better part of the last two weeks glued to your TV as top athletes from around the world compete for gold, silver, and bronze in sports that we tend to forget exist most of the time, but care passionately about for two weeks every four years. No […]
Do you ever find yourself watching a show and thinking to yourself that there’s one character who just doesn’t seem to fit in with the others? Something about them is just fundamentally incompatible with the rest of the show, whether its their personality or their life philosophy or their storyline. That doesn’t mean they’re necessarily […]
“There’s not a single witch or wizard who went bad who wasn’t in Slytherin.” – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Imagine growing up in the Wizarding World with that knowledge hanging over your head. Knowing that if you are sorted into Slytherin House — a house known for bullying and bigotry, for hate groups and violence […]
Today is the fourth of July, which means that in the United States, we’re celebrating Independence Day. In honor of this most American of holidays, I’m highlighting some of my favorite scenes from movies and TV that are designed to inspire, uplift, and generally make the viewer explode in a red, white, and blue confetti […]
WARNING: Spoilers for Captain America: Civil War, Agent Carter, Ant-Man, and Avengers: Age of Ultron ahead. Proceed at your own risk. Like many of you, we saw Captain America: Civil War on opening weekend, and haven’t stopped discussing it since. While the internet is abuzz with speculation about the big questions raised by Civil War’s somewhat open ending […]
After Avengers: Age of Ultron, many fans (me included) had their doubts about whether the Marvel Cinematic Universe had grown too sprawling for its own good. While I loved all of the characters individually, that film felt bogged down under the weight of too many characters, too many separate franchises, too many subplots. Not to say […]
All my friends know that if ever there’s a day where I don’t respond to a text chain with at least one GIF, I’ve probably been taken over by a pod person. I know, I know, some people don’t like GIFs, and if that’s you, that’s cool (but also, you probably shouldn’t give me your number). But for me, I […]