I Did an Asian Readathon and Whoops Now I’m Into MDZS By Amanda Hudgins • June 15th, 2020 This year for May, I decided to participate in #AsianReadathon, a reading event sponsored by the only booktuber I follow readwithcindy.
Here's the Thing The Weird and Disturbing World of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends By Rob Rich • May 12th, 2020 Rob remembers one of his favorite cartoon shows, about a foster home for imaginary friends, and realizes that it’s kiiiiiiiiiinda disturbing when thinking about the details.
Self-Insert RPF By Amanda Hudgins • April 13th, 2020 Bring Real Person Fanfiction onto The Graham Norton Show, cowards.
Exploits Feature She-Ra and the Princesses of Power By Violet Adele Bloch • April 1st, 2020 She-Ra is about to enter its fifth season, and that’s because it’s good. It’s one of the goodest shows ever produced.
True Crime for Beginners By Amanda Hudgins • March 23rd, 2020 I’ve got a reputation. Let me put it to work for you. There’s a lot to true crime, and if you’re truly interested there’s some good stuff out there. ACAB, let’s watch some true crime!
Self Insert When Fanon Eclipses Canon By Amanda Hudgins • March 10th, 2020 How a Canadian TV show from the ’90s lives on in alternative universe fanfiction.
Here's the Thing Avatar and the Importance of the Mundane By Rob Rich • March 10th, 2020 Rob takes a look at one of the most well-loved episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender and posits that it’s mundane slice-of-life moments that truly draw us in to stories about people with superhuman abilities.
Exploits Feature The Outsider By Stu Horvath • February 3rd, 2020 The strange case of two Holly Gibneys.
The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star By Amanda Hudgins • January 20th, 2020 There’s probably some academic who would be able to stay what stage of capitalism is a multi-part expose about the beauty industry that is actually a seven part ad for a makeup palette.
Best of 2019 The Best TV of 2019 By Team Unwinnable • December 30th, 2019 The ten best TV shows of 2019, as chosen by Team Unwinnable and our slightly shady voting system.
Episode 17: Tiny Islands, Watchmen By David Shimomura and Sara Clemens • December 4th, 2019 Double episode today: David and Sara dig into the new videogame Tiny Islands and the Watchmen TV series.
Exploits Feature Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special By Sara Clemens • December 2nd, 2019 Sara revisits the Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special.
Here's the Thing Futurama and Faith By Rob Rich • November 14th, 2019 Rob takes a look at how Futurama (of all things) has managed to approach religious concepts and faith with a surprising amount of profundity.
The Heavy Pour This Time It’s Personal By Sara Clemens • November 6th, 2019 Sara got to meet Pee-wee Herman at this year’s NYCC and only freaked out a little.
Rookie of the Year Star Trek: The Sex Generation By Matt Marrone • October 8th, 2019 The ladies of the USS Enterprise want to get it on. Badly.
Carole & Tuesday & Bad Representation By Gingy Gibson • September 20th, 2019 Bad representation does not count as representation and why are we still having this conversation in 2019?
Razor Blades or Fancy Pants: The Story of The Real Peaky Blinders By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • September 10th, 2019 In this episode, Jen tells you the story of the real Peaky Blinders.
No Accounting for Tastes All Roads By Adam Boffa • September 10th, 2019 Despite being set over a century apart, Deadwood and Breaking Bad end up in surprisingly similar places.
The Heavy Pour Faking it to Make It: GLOW and the Power of Performance By Sara Clemens • September 5th, 2019 GLOW is a love letter to performance and the way it intertwines with work and life.
Episode 14: The Terror By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • August 28th, 2019 It’s back to television this week as David and Sara discuss The Terror on Unmissable!
Open Letter to Legion By Noah Springer • August 16th, 2019 My beautiful, heady, unwieldy love – what am I to do with you?
Documentary Sunday Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much By Megan Condis • August 5th, 2019 Not unlike the game show that it chronicles, watching The Perfect Bid is comforting. So long as you don’t think about it hard.
Here's the Thing Let’s Talk About Mitch Hedberg By Rob Rich • August 2nd, 2019 Rob ruminates on one of his favorite comedians and how, despite appearances, they’re still a shining example of how jokes can be hilarious without being mean.
Another Look Evangelion and Endings By Yussef Cole • August 1st, 2019 Twenty years later, what’s it like to watch the anime that made you stop watching anime?
Feature Excerpt Springfield Forever By Noah Springer • July 22nd, 2019 Some mobile games are only entertaining for a few hours. For Noah, The Simpsons Tapped Out has proven fun for nearly a decade.
Episode 11 – Stranger Things By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • July 18th, 2019 Stranger Things are afoot as Sara and David talk about the third season of Netflix’s popular 80s pastiche
The Burnt Offering Grab Bag By Stu Horvath • July 5th, 2019 Stu has a handful of thoughts on everything from The Name of the Rose to dungeon synth.
Episode 10 – Black Mirror By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • July 4th, 2019 Topher Grace’s best performance, Miley + Nine Inch Nails 5ever and, uh, would VR sex even actually work?
A Review of Pluto TV Commercials By Amanda Hudgins • June 10th, 2019 Trapped in a world of re-runs of Forensic Files and World Poker Tour, I found myself drawn to one particular thing: the commercials of Pluto TV.
DC’s TV Universe Represents Queer Heroes Like Marvel Won’t By Kenneth Shepard • June 7th, 2019 Avengers: Endgame is not the queer representation mainstream superheroes need, but DC’s TV universe is full of the heroes queer fans deserve.
Unmissable – Episode 8 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • June 5th, 2019 Game of Thrones is over, so let’s have Stu Horvath on to discuss it, even though he didn’t watch the show.
Rookie of the Year Not. Today. By Matt Marrone • May 23rd, 2019 Fact: Arya Stark is the most badass character in the history of television.
The Devil is Only Human After All By Pascal Wagner • May 20th, 2019 Depictions of Satan fluctuate depending on the media, but they all touch a part of our subconscious.
Rookie of the Year That Olivia Colman Look By Matt Marrone • May 11th, 2019 Unmissable: The Official Unwinnable Podcast forgot one important role in their chat about Olivia Colman: She’s the chick from Numberwang.
No Accounting for Tastes Which Theme Goes With Everything? By Adam Boffa • May 5th, 2019 A journey to find a specific Street Fighter II theme that matches his childhood memories leads Adam down an SFII rabbit hole.
Unmissable: Episode 5 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • April 15th, 2019 It’s part one of a Jordan Peele double header!
Consensual Violence By Amanda Hudgins • April 8th, 2019 Blood sports are an active brutality on the lives on the participants, a grotesque display of physicality and punishment that leaves them pummeled on the side of the road.
Luke Perry was Riverdale’s Best Idea By Harry Mackin • April 2nd, 2019 The story of Fred Andrews is, thanks to Riverdale’s framing, is in some small part the story of Luke Perry.
