Bluey is a very popular cartoon show for kids, and also for people like me, a childless adult who can justify watching a kids’ show by blogging about it. A
Shogun, a kinda-historical TV series set in 17th-century Japan and currently on its eighth of ten episodes, absolutely rules. We've discussed this; it has, as Gita says, "
Now more than ever, Hollywood lusts after reliable IP from which to mine the majority of its ideas, and after hollowing out superhero comics, it’s turned its insatiable appetite
The trailer for the Borderlands movie came out yesterday. It looks fine, I guess; I’m not really a Borderlands guy, though I love to watch Randy Pitchford talk about
I know serious TV criticism and news coverage has been in trouble for a while, like everywhere else in media, but like a frog enjoying an ever-warming afternoon bath, I
Over the holiday weekend (OK, last night), I binge-watched Carol and the End of the World, an animated series that came to Netflix back in mid-December. Over its 10 episodes,
Because I live in DC, and also because of climate change, I haven’t seen snow in a while. As a committed cold-weather lover, this has been a real bummer.
Last month I wrote about Blue Eye Samurai, an animated series on Netflix that, for multiple reasons, blew my socks clean off. It's a gripping tale of revenge
In the most recent episode of The Curse on Showtime, Dougie Schecter, played by director and actor Benny Safdie, has to explain why he bought alcohol for a teenager to
If there's been one depressing theme to a lot of popular culture news in 2023--beyond bad stuff like AI and labour conditions--it's been the increasingly dystopian
As I have said before, few people get New York City right and anime is no exception. I don’t begrudge artists in other countries for not being aware of
