Chapo did a much  better episode about the Snyder cut. 

When I saw this on the front page this morning, I was genuinely surprised, because to me this was one of the few duds in recent HDTGM episodes, which I think have been overall really good throughout the pandemic. I guess we haven’t seen any of those recent eps profiled here because there’s not much to write in a…

It’ll be Avengers: Horseshoe Theory!

Was Blossom a drama? I always thought of it as a sitcom.

Not sure if it’s been mentioned here yet, but everyone should listen to the episode of Citations Needed podcast that breaks down these types of shows as really reinforcing gentrification, displacement, and normalizing home ownership as a commodity. I scanned this article, saw some mention of working class communities,…

This was all obvious to anyone familiar with House of M as soon as Disney acquired Fox.

Chapo is the perfect podcast to recommend to your 13 y/o cousin who’s on the verge of going alt-right.

I get that many folks on here are not huge fans of Jacobin, but let’s not pretend that this sort of pop culture analysis isn’t the bread-and-butter of the AV Club. Sure, it’s shallow Gramscianism, but it’s not as though anything else on this site constitutes anything deeper, it’s just playing in a different pond.

Though there is always the chance, Hampton really represented the last, best opportunity for uniting the American working class toward the goal of genuine emancipation.

This seems to be part of the natural evolution of Chapo. By far, their most popular and best received episodes are the ones where they’re just riffing off of movies. Christman is still offers some valuable insights into the political theatre and broader historical topics, but even that’s not as sharp as it once was. 

Chapo is the perfect podcast to recommend to your 13 y/o cousin who seems to be on the verge of going alt-right. 

What’s interesting to me is that the queer jokes are not a straight trajectory (no pun intended); they’re lazy, then they get better, then they get worse, then really bad, then get better, but never really good. It’s a journey

I really hope the Eve 6 guy writes an Iannucci-style comedy about the world of mid-90s, mid-tier American alternative rock

All great albums have the “heart in a blender” song.

Something something Local H?

You don’t want Eve 6 screwing up your Spotify algorithm. Sure, you’ll hear some Gin Blossoms, which is always a pleasant surprise, but then out of no where Sister Hazel pops up and it’s time to delete your account and start fresh.

If the studios had never come along, Diamond would have completely killed the medium of monthly floppies. Now it just gets a slow death on life support.

Holy shit, is that Ultimate Iron Man for real?? That is some wild nonsense.

When I was in middle school in the 90s and still buying weekly comics, everything that was Marvel but not X or Spider-Man seemed like some weird holdover from a bygone era. I might as well read DC if I’m going to read Captain America or Iron Man!

Convoluted and incomprehensible backstories are kind of the inevitable result when you A) have characters who can never age or die (I don’t just me getting killed in battle, but more like succumbing to Alzheimer’s) and B) create soap operatic plots which are constantly calling back to earlier stories. It’s like having…