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A close-up on the adorable face of the red panda from Pixar's Turning Red, looking at herself in a mirror.

Turning Time

By Noah Springer • October 15th, 2025

Maybe it was those Santa Ana winds driving me insane, or maybe it was the hefty dose of edibles I just scarfed down, but I swore I was back in St. Louis just seconds ago.

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Poster art for High School Musical, featuring a group of teenagers leaping in front of red stage curtains, frozen in mid-air with huge smiles plastered on their faces.

High School Musical and the Gaslighting of America’s Youth

By Natasha Ochshorn • October 10th, 2025

What makes streaming different than past revised mediums is that when changes are made, there may be no older physical model to compare it to.

A screenshot from The Devil's Plan where a hex grid of letters on the left shows a correct answer played and the player on the right with his eyes closed and a look of relief on his face

Wiring Games for Lightbulb Moments – The Power of Realization over Revelation

By Jonathan Fenn • September 24th, 2025

Invoking this feeling doesn’t need to be built up over many hours to work, it can also be distilled to one delightful moment.

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Carrie sits across from a giant stuffed toy with a huge tomato for a head at a Japanese restaurant in a scene from And Just Like That.

I’m So Bored, I Could Die

By Natasha Ochshorn • September 16th, 2025

And Just Like That… is a show that often feels in my brain the same way scrolling on the internet does.

A screenshot from Severance where a man with curly silver hair and a moustache is looking back over his shoulder at the viewer with a slight smile on his face

Orpheus in Lumon: The Act of Looking Back in Severance

By Vehe Mently • August 27th, 2025

Memory is the crux of the question of identity in Severance.

A screenshot from Power Rangers where Blue Ranger billy is out of uniform fighting baddies in a California park in a defensive stance blue flannel and glasses as his blond hair blows in the wind

Shades of Blue (Ranger)

By Alex J. Tunney • August 7th, 2025

Simple is a great starting point, a good shortcut. 

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Loudermilk

By Ben Sailer • August 1st, 2025

Writing about culture should be about more than just trying to control the narrative around a creator or their work.

A screenshot from the Leftovers where Kevin is dancing with Nora, Kevin looking very thoughtful as circles of light flares around him

The Accumulated Past

By Jimmy Hollenbeck • July 23rd, 2025

What’s more important in the show’s final scene is its emotional truth.

A still from The Beaches of Agnes, a film by Agnes Varda, with a comic drawing of the director sitting on a very tall director chair in a red jumper staring at the water and a seagull

Does Taste Matter?

By Farouk Kannout • July 17th, 2025

Living human beings, unlike works of art, don’t have easily definable endings to encapsulate what they represent.

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Diego Luna looks pensively off into the distance in a scene from Andor.

What Are We Talking About When We’re Talking About Star Wars?

By Natasha Ochshorn • June 10th, 2025

The depiction of fascism in Andor, – its annihilating possibilities, its pervasiveness, its seductions towards complicity – feel extrapolated from the present moment, terrifyingly. Its rebellion feels hopefully so.

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