TV Review
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The Diabolical Stupidity of The Boys’ Episode Titles
Yeah, okay, so The Boys’ final season didn’t go so well. But honestly, I’m tired of hearing the same complaints over and over again, so…
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I Have No Host Skills, and I Must Torture My Guests:
How the Harlan Ellison Classic Holds up to Reiteration While riding the TTC, I overheard several teenage boys parodying the title of Harlan Ellison’s sci-fi…
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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…
