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REVIEW: The Flash – Season 8, Episode 6 “Impulsive Excessive Disorder”
The Flash has been off the air for four months, and to remind us of what we’ve been missing, the series gave us an episode focusing on Barry’s corny kids. Not that a Nora/Bart episode like “Impulsive Excessive Disorder” would have been good at any point in the run, but as the mid-season(ish)...
Read MoreREVIEW: Superman & Lois Season 2, Episode 7 “Anti-Hero”
You wouldn’t guess from the title, but “Anti-Hero” is about family, specifically how devastating truths can be kept secret even in the tightest-knit ones. At the same time, those we trust the least may be the ones who come through for us when no one else can. All the plotlines move forward thi...
Read MoreREVIEW: Superman & Lois – Season 2, Episode 6 “Tried and True”
Superman & Lois has been dealing with trust this season, and “Tried and True” explores that theme through all the main characters who’ve been on one side or the other of betrayal lately. This is a relatively quiet and character-driven episode, but a tightly written one, with every plotline...
Read MoreREVIEW: Superman & Lois – Season 2, Episode 5 “Girl… You’ll Be a Woman Soon”
“Girl… You’ll Be a Woman Soon” is my favorite kind of episode. It uses what seems like a self-contained story to significantly advance the season’s main plot. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer was masterful at this.) Here, the centerpiece is Sarah’s quinceañera, an event that reveals secrets fr...
Read MoreMarvel Accused of Light-Washing America Chavez
Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Feb 23, 2022 | 3
Woke on woke crime has come for the production of Doctor Strange 2 in the form of a myriad of Twitter attacks directed at 15-year-old actress Xochitl Gomez, who will be playing America Chavez. These rampantly hateful attacks have been hurled at Gomez for “Light-washing America Chavez.” The major...
Read MoreSpeculating on the Doctor Strange Trailer
A week ago, during some football game or other, Disney and Marvel revealed the official trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. A sequel to 2016’s Doctor Strange – and Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Avengers: Endgame, and WandaVision, and pretty much all the Marvel stuff – Multi...
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