Teen Wolf (1985): a recap (part 1 of 3): Beavers vs. Dragons
Is Teen Wolf a painfully dated '80s embarrassment like fanny packs, acid washed jeans, or Reaganomics?
Author: Susan Velazquez
Riverdale: Let's get ready to rumble!
In real life, if a dumb but well-meaning 16 year old kid posed shirtless with a bunch of his friends bragging about how he was going to take down a local murderer, he would have been laughed out town. In…
Riverdale: Lil' Crime Stoppers
Jughead informs us that every fairy tale has essentially the same warning: don’t go into the woods because there’s nothing but trouble there. Examples include Little Red Riding Hood meeting a hungry wolf and Goldilocks finding the three bears’ house.…
Riverdale: Death diner for cutie
I have only one thing to say about the townspeople of Riverdale: these hoes ain’t loyal.
Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe has been open since the 1950s and it’s the local hangout for kids and adults alike. But you have one little…
Riverdale: Daddy in a coma
“Our story is not over,” begins Jughead’s narration for the season 2 premiere of Riverdale. Hell yeah, it isn’t! Welcome to the town where there’s creepy wig rooms, strange obsessions with maple syrup, dramatic funerals, and an absurd amount…
Fact vs. Fiction: How to survive the nuclear apocalypse, according to the movies
Most homemade hazmat suit tutorials are purely for costuming purposes and there's not a lot of people who are willing to walk through chemical gases to test if their makeshift suits would protect them from getting burns. Bunch of cowards.
Binge or No? Netflix’s Atypical
Episodes focus too much on how Sam's family members react to his autism--as a tragedy or as a source of shame--but very little on how they react to him as a family member or as a person.
5 lessons ABC's The Mayor can take from other unlikely TV politicians
A 27-year-old aspiring rapper decides the best way to generate publicity for his upcoming album is to run for office in his California hometown. But he's far from the first political novice to get elected to high office in sitcom land.
Movie Duel: Baby Driver vs. Drive
Welcome back to Movie Duels, in which we watch two dueling movies and offer our eminently qualified opinion of which film, if any, has a reason for existing, and which one should have been left back at the pitch …
Slide into the DMs of Twitter BFFs Lindsay Lohan and Donald Trump
We’ve all seen celebrity feuds start on Twitter, but could this be the first time we’re seeing a celebrity friendship form in 140 characters or less?
This past Monday, Lohan retweeted articles about Trump voicing his support for terminally ill…
Batman, forever: A farewell to Adam West
On June 9th, Adam West passed away in Los Angeles at age 88 after a short battle with leukemia, according to his family. He’s survived by his wife Marcelle and their six children, five grand children, two grandchildren, and an…
Angsty Archie, sex, and the supernatural: What to expect from Riverdale season 2
A CW teen drama centering on sexy Archie characters and their sexy murder mystery sounded downright laughable in the beginning, but Riverdale became the surprise hit of the 2017 TV season, and now fans are eagerly waiting to see what…
Can any of Fox's upcoming sci-fi shows fill the Powerless void?
Superheroes can be funny.
I mean, the basic premise of any comic book film is that there’s danger in the city/country/planet/galaxy and only a select group of ridiculously good-looking people dressed in spandex outfits can save us.
That’s basically the…
Riverdale: We can be heroes
Why does the Blossom family take their maple syrup so seriously? Why did they have their super elaborate maple tapping ceremony at the beginning of winter when any New Englander knows that maple syrup season begins at the end of…
Riverdale: How to get away with murder
I don’t grade episodes that I recap, especially if the season is still airing. I firmly believe that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and when you only see the parts in weekly doses, your idea…
Binge or No? Netflix's Dear White People
“Dear White People: bet you think this show is about you”, teases a promotional poster for Dear White People, Netflix’s TV adaptation based on the 2014 film of the same name, which premiered on April 28th.
“Wait, is it…
Powerless becomes even more powerless, "essentially" canceled by NBC
Okay, technically, Powerless hasn’t been canceled yet. NBC hasn’t officially announced that it’s pulling the plug on the first DC superhero TV comedy, but they have temporarily pulled the remaining four episodes off the air (even though an upcoming episode…
Riverdale: Homecomings and goings
Welcome back (again) to Riverdale! These random CW hiatuses are killing me and I don’t understand the logic behind them. Are they trying to drag out the final episodes? Accommodating standardized testings for their teen viewers? Or did they simply…
Powerless: Would My Life Suck Without U?
Apologies for the late recap, but I was re-watching the best NBC workplace comedies from the past five years—The Office, 30 Rock, Parks & Recreation, Superstore—and I think I’ve finally pinpointed Powerless’ kryptonite, so to…
Riverdale: Party like an angsty teen
In the aftermath of Jason’s murder, Jughead notes that the town has realized that there is no such thing as control, only chaos. Intercut with scenes of our clean-cut All-American teen leads are scenes from a wild party. The party…
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