All I can really tell you is I was absolutely ENTHRALLED by ATLA. I loved every character. I loved the filler episodes and the deep episodes. It was ‘appointment viewing’ for me. Life literally stopped during the episode airing.

You’re a senior reporter and you can’t spell ‘pistachios’? Do you even spellcheck, bro?!?!

“Not as expressive as a dog’s (tail)“ says the article.
PIFFLE. First off, dogs don’t use their tails for balance, as cats do. Compared to the relative length and size of their body, even a big dog’s big tail (like a golden retriever) is proportionally tiny compared to a cat’s tail. You know that cliche about cats…

So many of these involve dairy, which can actually contribute to inflammation and loss of appetite.
Can I suggest some of my go tos?
Baked or microwaved potato with part of a can of chili (vegan or meat).

I thought it wasn’t quite as tight as the first half, honestly, and had SO much plot to cram in that there was just a bit too much exposition and not enough...other stuff.
That said, I did love that every character got an arc, and that they left some hooks for what I hope will be Season Two!

I hear you, man. I was a huge Punisher geek back in college, but I was young and silly back then. There are still storylines and bits about the character that I hold in a kind of reverence, though, moreso since I joined the Army and after the military got involved with a lot of other PTSD support groups. A new…

This article fawns over the film’s creators, to the detriment of sanity. This isn’t about manga/film or anything. The plot, just as a plot, was a hot mess (seriously, Light is in a classroom for detention and the classroom gets TRASHED and there are...no consequences? What about his homework copying? Do none of his…

It’s okay to not like things....

I thought it was just me. I went clothes shopping a few weeks ago and every time I’d see a cute print on a top or dress and pull it out...it was a ‘cold shoulder’ top. Which, if you’re built a bit like a linebacker (like me) tend to make you look like a side of beef in a flowery dress. Awful! And they were…

LOL I’m sorry, but you must be new here if you don’t realize Feige is kind of a dick. Remember when he said we didn’t need a Black Widow standalone movie because the Avengers was ‘already a BW movie’?

Meh, I think it’s more about the lame excuse being used for both Pepper and Jane? I mean, is it too hard to cook up something for Jane like—-she’s gotten asked to work on some special project halfway around the world from wherever the avengers are or something? The idea that the only reason women disappear from…

Look at this cultural appropriation....!!

I disagree with you about Dredd. While I, personally, agree and view cops as that thin blue line that means I can keep my car unlocked in my driveway and that my neighbors won’t steal my Amazon packages, a lot of people in America do not. It’s bizarre not to recognize it. Dredd is the GOOD Judge (one actually…

Wow, this title was misleading. I thought it was about your daughter, family and the movie. I didn’t realize this was going to be more Trump Is Awful.
Mind you, I think Trump is pretty terrible, but I’d like to have some places be a bit, you know, of a sanctuary city, if you will, from having politics shoved down my…

I go to movies by myself all the time, because my work schedule is weird. Trust me: NO ONE will care. We spend way too much of our lives thinking that other people notice and judge the hell out of us, when in reality...they probably don’t even realize you exist. It’s one of the comforting parts of being an adult…

I will ALWAYS love some Nazi zombie action—it is my favorite genre. But oh my god, so much snottiness in this idea that a big studio movie will be somehow better than some of the extant Nazi zombie flicks. I mean, Dead Snow is a great movie, and Frankenstein’s Army? Fantastic. Outpost? A classic in the genre. I’m…

Jyn did not work for me. Can’t say if it was acting or the lines, or just that I’ve sort of seen messy-haired brunette sassy heroine already in this franchise. Jyn was nice in that she wasn’t super magically good at everything (she’s good at fighting but we hear she earned it) but most of her character, and most of…

I was thinking about this and how, in a sense, Cage HAS to be a bit of a square, because black masculinity is already in real life connected to danger, lawlessness and out of control. To be ‘safe’, he has to be a bit square.

I did love how ‘daddy issues’ pretty much cover the entirety of the season’s plots. Over and over again (a little unsubtly, honestly) we keep hearing about absent and missing fathers being a problem in Harlem and with black youth, right from the season starting at Pop’s!

Several years ago, I was visiting my parents. I needed to use the computer, and they didn’t have wifi at the time, so the only way to get online the way I needed to was through my dad’s laptop.