“...that she hadn’t saved up enough money to rent an apartment...”

I remember when Candace Owens broke. She was pushing an app that would dox online bullies, and it was freaking GamerGaters out. Then the most famous victims of GamerGate told her that app was a bad idea and it broke her. The people who were initially terrified of the possibility of that app saw their moment and love bo…

Britney Spears has had a relevant career for three decades?

I feel like this movie would have been ten thousand times better if it was written by that Britney Spears fan who was struggling with how complicit they were in the destruction of that girl and accepting that things play out as they play out.

Rich, I typically enjoy your cultural criticism (for example, your piece about George Michael was really strong and inspired me to re-examine his work), but I must disagree with your assessment that Bohemian Rhapsody was critically underrated. If anything, it was critically overrated. I found its heavy-handed…

Why do so many of Rich’s reviews seem to boil down to “In this essay, I’m going to use incredibly affected language to tell you why I dislike this famous female singer/actor.”?

“And then there is Celeste’s staggeringly mediocre performance. In what leads up to the climax, Celeste is made out to be a legend on the scale of Britney Spears...”

“Critically Underrated Bohemian Rhapsody”? Did I read that correctly? Is this a typo? One of the most wildly sugary, silly, offensive mainstream releases of 2018? A film with zero meaningful or original or even accurate commentary on the nature of pop music or fame or homosexuality in the 80's? What about this movie…

I watched the trailer; my response, “wow am I totally happy that watching a trailer isn’t the equivalent of signing a contract to watch a movie.”

I think it’s a good example of why I’m not into pop music. Natalie Portman isn’t a singer or a dancer, so they cast her. Most pop musicians (there are exceptions of course) aren’t good singers or songwriters, they’re faces (and maybe good dancers). It’s all a layered and easily consumed product, like junk food for…

so Phil Coulson fans might want to prepare themselves for yet another ostensibly motivating character death when Agents Of A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.

Since AVC isn’t covering “Fresh Off the Boat” anymore, I’ll just post here about Ming-Na Wen’s terrific guest appearance this week.

But does the MCU deserve Agents of SHIELD?

Agents of SHIELD deserves to be recognized by the larger MCU

I’m pretty sure Disney is aware and it was at least part of the reason they insist ABC keeps it. They also mentioned that AoS delayed numbers were so good it was part of their decision to give it 6th season.

I suspect a lot of the folks watching and enjoying AoS just don’t consume it through traditional means that would show up in things like Neilsen ratings.

Well, I guess that makes sense. The fourth season was really good. And it’s definitely improved ever since the show started dividing it’s season into “pods”.

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