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A still from Buffy the Vampire Slayer shows the titular heroine clutching a wooden stake with a determined look on her face.

Buffy Reboot

By Natasha Ochshorn • March 12th, 2025

Stage and film actors have been “remaking” Shakespeare for over 400 years and no one has a problem with it if the production is good. I’m kidding, people have a problem with everything.

Photographs of all the characters for In the Name of the People the TV show with the title in Mandarin at the bottom, everyone looks stern but also a little cheey with some smiles

Corrupted Hero, Corrupted Dream

By Zonghang Zhou • February 24th, 2025

Still, viewers choose to find good in the evil.

Here's the Thing
Principal Bump stares down a nervous Luz in a scene from The Owl House.

On Bump and Bias

By Rob Rich • February 19th, 2025

Countless examples of “don’t judge a book by its cover” exist in media, but Rob wants to zero in on Principal Bump from The Owl House.

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But even though discs can be seen as outdated, they’re not out of style yet.

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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.

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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.

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