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Key art from Dragon Age: The Veilguard shows the player character standing in front of a composite image of their companions, a huge dragon spreading its wings behind them all.

Mid

By Dr. Emily Price • January 31st, 2025

We hurl “mid” at all kinds of popular culture and, if we’re mean, into the comments of streamers or on people’s outfit reels. What do we mean when we say it?

A pile of various old media formats including a CD, cassette tape, game boy cartridge, 3.5" floppy disks, and more

Physical Media and Collective Nostalgia

By Paige Eldridge • January 30th, 2025

But even though discs can be seen as outdated, they’re not out of style yet.

Totally Generic
Alicia Florrick stands beside her husband Peter as he gives a speech in a scene from The Good Wife.

Watching The Good Wife on the Eve of a new Trump Presidency

By Natasha Ochshorn • January 17th, 2025

The Good Wife is not a Trump era show, but it works as well to understand the Biden era as it did to reflect the Obama years – with added hindsight.

Totally Generic
A screencap from The Lord of Rings: The Rings of Power shows Numenor in the slanted sunlight of golden hour, featuring a monumental stone elf carved from a cliff face.

11 Alternative Shows I Thought of While Watching Rings of Power

By Natasha Ochshorn • December 6th, 2024

I spend a lot of my time watching the show imagining what I would do differently.

Exploits Feature

A Garfield Christmas

By Sara Clemens • December 2nd, 2024

A Garfield Christmas had an honored place on my 1980’s VHS compilation of Christmas specials. Why? One word: Grandma.

Always Autumn
Wirt, Greg, and the bluebird Beatrice head deeper into the woods in a still from Over the Garden Wall.

The Loveliest Lies of All

By Autumn Wright • November 3rd, 2024

Not what, but where is over the garden wall?

Past Presence
A still from Sex and the City episode "The Baby Shower" shows a woman sitting on the floor changing a baby's diaper, grinning like a jack-o-lantern at the camera.

Dream Vacation

By Dr. Emily Price • October 31st, 2024

The suburbs are conformity, and they’re also, for people around a certain age, parenthood.

Feature Excerpt
A close-up on the Stranger Things character Lucas, his face set in determination.

A Journey Through the Upside Down

By Phillip Russell • October 24th, 2024

Lucas’s reality, much like my own, is flattened when we fail to acknowledge his varied experiences from the rest of the boys.

Casting Deep Meteo
A still from the TV show Alone shows a man in a bright red cap standing on riverbank, his figure small against the wilderness.

Alone But For the Harsh Gaze of Doctor Nature

By Levi Rubeck • October 10th, 2024

Everyone with a remote in their hand is an expert, we all feel this way from the comfort of home.

A screenshot from one of the various iterations of to catch a predator, featuring the show title in a treatment that looks like a web address

To Rewatch a Predator

By J.M. Henson • September 27th, 2024

Was I laughing at the reactions of terrible people ruining their lives, or was I laughing at the quirks of people who, to some extent or another, are unable to fully recognize the severity of their offenses?

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