Your review makes this sound a lot like The Americans but with comedy instead of the historical fiction element.

Plays like this are exercises in fandom too. They pick movies that have cult followings to make into movies because the audience likes to go to the play and when the dialogue or lyrics reference or reframe dialogue from the movie, the audience feels like they’re in on an inside joke. The musical is a representation of…

Zoomers were bon in the late ‘90s/early 2000s. People born in 1996, the year Daggerfall came out, are Zoomers. The slang you’re using is actually a Gen Alpha thing. 

You’re leaving out that Nelson Peltz is a huge backer of Ron DeSantis and wants Disney to be “less political.” He’s also close friends with Ike Perlmutter, who is backing Peltz’s move to take over the board, and wants to personally appoint the new CEO (Jay Rasulo is who Perlmutter likes). 

Rustin kind of sucks because of the way it writes over its subject’s politics and essentially presents him as the forgotten sidekick of King. As one critic noted, “In a cruel twist, it seems, Rustin’s sexuality has been weaponized yet again. In Rustin’s lifetime, it was used as an excuse to forget him — in his death…

I mean, the capital city of Reach isn’t even named in the books, even though it has a substantial population. So I don’t know if I’d call that “the important stuff”. There’s a mission there in the game, titled New Alexandria, which is probably the name they should have gone with, but it’s not mentioned much in…

The overall mythology of the show is actually pretty faithful to the games and novels, along with the aesthetics. It’s basically the same worldbuilding. The divergences are mostly in terms of character and focus. It’s a weird show that is simultaneously obsessively inaccurate and weirdly different, which I thik is…

This was my question as well. People still don’t seem to realize the damage repeat infections can have on your body.

Nothing about Ms. Marvel or WandaVision?

Yes.

Yes. In the first episode a character gives a big speech about his ideals and loyalty to his friends, and another character responds “You’re such a dick.”

While I agree with you, the episodes listed are still really good stuff which you could enjoy watching anyway.

This article also forgot Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, with Namor and the entire nation of Talokan.

I think the worst thing about the Star Wars Marvel comics is that they’re all supposed to take place in between the events of the Original Trilogy. I feel like if they wanted to do a big ongoing series featuring the OT heroes, they should have gone for the New Republic era, but Lucasfilm wouldn’t let them. They’d have…

“CW Powerpuff Girls screenwriter Diablo Cody” (yes, Juno and Jennifer’s Body kick ass, but still funny to point out)

Spock has gone rogue and commandeered the Enterprise and taken it into disputed space, risking a war? Man, you’d think that he’d done this before would have come up in his later trial for doing exactly this!

There’s a fantastic article in the New Yorker by Ted Chiang called “ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web” that I think explains the distinction (although he does leave it an open question somewhat). It helps to think of ChatGPT not as something that is generating new material in imitation of what it has been trained…

Gen Z also doesn’t drink as much. This is demonstrably true statistically, and is also true anecdotally in my experience. (I only mention the latter because it it shows my experience matches the demographic trends.)

I wanna see someone do a deep dive on this show, since it seems to be huge with evangelicals. If they’re a big part of right-wing politics in the United States right now, then it seems like there should be more analysis of the current dominant evangelical pop culture depiction of Jesus. I only ever hear Christians…

The country referenced in the indictment is also definitely Iran, not North Korea.