You might have seen postwar antifascist public service announcement that made the rounds on the internet recently: America has treated antifascist education the same way it’s treated basically all education on how to not be a monster of a human being: by meekly saying “hey, don’t do that” and expecting that to be enough. Considering …
Category: Television
Our Current Political Realities as Explained with Episodes of The Twilight Zone
I’ve watched a lot of TV and if there’s one thing I know, it’s that when someone says things can’t possibly get any worse, things will always become worse. I realize everyone is excited to get out of 2016 and has high hopes for the new year, but personally, I don’t really believe that the …
Heresy: The Worst Things about the Best Shows
Some years ago I had a friend whose favorite thing to do at parties was tell people he hasn’t seen Breaking Bad because getting yelled at by people who love Breaking Bad was apparently fun to him. People get really attached to the media they love and are willing to defend to the death their …
Gilmore Girls Reunion Hot Takes #MaybeIWasTooHarsh
Submitted for your approval: -Jess looks weeeeiiiirrrdddd. -Logan got more handsom. -Lorelai looks good. -Oh yeah, I found out this time around that Lorelai’s name is spelled Lorelai, not Lorelei as I previously thought. -I found this out because while Rory was looking at old newspapers Lorelai moving to Stars Hollow when she was 16 …
Gilmore Girls Hot Takes
Okay ya’ll, I meant to do this a little while ago, but whatever. I watched all the seasons so here’s my Gilmore Girls hot takes, in no particular order. Also, this is before watching the reunion, whatever. Probably get back to it later. -I hated Dean from day one. -Rory’s so great. Rory’s amazing. Everyone …
The Best Part about Luke Cage
The best part about Luke Cage was the part where the townspeople were protesting Luke Cage and the one person in the back had a sign saying “The only super freak I need in my life is Rick James” shout out to whichever intern got to write that on a sign and have it appear …
A Brief History of Talent Show Episodes in Television
Sometimes I get really committed to doing some silly things. This time I decided to watch the talent show episode of every show I could find. For this purpose, battle of the bands and beauty pageants also count for talent shows. Some shows have both a talent show and beauty pageant episode, so I just …