The Definitive Terminator
What makes Terminator so compelling, more than thirty years later? Come with me if you want to think.
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Game of Thrones Unlocked: Season 6, Episode 5, “The Door”
In the final moments of “The Door,” we must resolve an impossible contradiction while watching how characters resolve impossible contradictions.
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Eurovision 2016: The Overthinking Eurovision Awards
We partied like it’s 1944.
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Better Call Saul is Very Different from Breaking Bad. And that’s a Good Thing.
You’ll be surprised by what literary analysis reveals about what it really means to “Call Saul”.
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Why the Ninja Turtles and Batman are Perfect for Each Other
We read, analyze, and totally gush over the conclusion to the awesomest superhero crossover of the century!
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Is Aladdin Humanity’s Willing Executioner?
Aladdin’s Genie is in fact an abomination who will, inevitably, destroy the world – or already has.
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Game Of Thrones Unlocked: Season 6, Episode 4, “Book of the Stranger”
Game of Thrones is a show about magic, and trauma, and people refusing to talk about magic or trauma.
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Eurovision 2016: The Swedes Have Already Won
Cultural expression is taking a back seat to an international language of pop.
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Industrial Ornithoid Pastry!
We read and discuss comics! Like pretty frequently. This week: Space Battle Lunchtime; Lady Mechanika, and Howard the Duck.
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Superheroics as a Public Good
Captain America and Iron Man wage a Civil War over a thorny real-world problem: what power should a private organization or individual have over public policy?
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