TV Review
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The Wrath of Khan
“How do you feel, Jim?” Did you ever read a book or watch a movie as a kid and think, “Hot diggity, that was…
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Jessica Jones and the Mechanics of “Post-Series Depression”
Warning: The following content contains spoilers. While I should have been studying for exams, I finally gave in to the hype and watched the first…
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Remember To Save What Keeps Us Human: Looking At “Childhood’s End”
Childhood’s End is a 1953 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. In the twentieth century, Clarke was considered to be one of the three…
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The Rise of Zombie Culture: Undead Politics in In the Flesh
With all the blood-spattered graphic t-shirts, movies, popular zombie TV shows (I’m looking at you, The Walking Dead), and the plethora of oncoming zombie apocalypse…
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Daredevil Season 2: Here Comes the Man Without Fear
There’s a moment in the third episode of this season where, faced with fighting his way down a whole building of armed thugs, Matt Murdock…
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I Aim to Misbehave – The Confusing Gender Politics of Firefly
Warning: Spoilers ahead, potentially offensive language, and mention of sexual violence. Let me be upfront about this: I think the space western Firefly might be…
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Hannibal: What do you see?
Sight is the key to appreciating the design behind Bryan Fuller’s three seasons of Hannibal. Television is first and foremost a visual medium, and no…
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Jessica Jones: It’s Time to Learn Her Name
When Marvel announced that it would be putting out several series on Netflix about street-level heroes, they told us who we’d be getting: Daredevil, Luke…
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If Dinosaurs Walked the Earth… You’d Be Riding One
What do you think of when you imagine a utopia? How about a dystopia? If you had trouble with the first, but The Hunger Games…
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The Flash Season One: “Run, Barry, Run!”
“Life is locomotion… If you’re not moving, you’re not living.” So begins the famous motto of the comic book hero the Flash, and when adopting…
The Spectatorial 