Jan 22 2019
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After easing us back into the season with last week’s lackluster outing, This Is Us finally…
Caroline Siede
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Contributor, The A.V. Club. Caroline Siede is a pop culture critic in Chicago, where the cold never bothers her anyway. Her interests include superhero movies, feminist theory, and Jane Austen novels.
Jan 20 2019
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Welcome back to Supergirl and welcome back to a brand new Supergirl status quo! Rather than pick up on the Ben…
Jan 20 2019
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Hey, remember when Frank Castle experienced a morality shifting existential crisis when he thought he’d accidentally…
Jan 20 2019
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Let’s talk about Dr. Krista Dumont, a wildly uneven character who feels reflective of this…
Jan 20 2019
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To be fair, this season of The Punisher already warned us that it didn’t actually have the guts…
Jan 20 2019
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One of the tricky things about binge-reviewing a heavily serialized show like The Punisher is…
Jan 19 2019
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I kind of hit a wall with this episode of The Punisher, which could be a result of some…
Jan 19 2019
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“My Brother’s Keeper” operates in a slightly different mode than any of The Punisher’s previous…
Jan 19 2019
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The previous episode of The Punisher ended with a statement of purpose for Frank that doubled as…
Jan 19 2019
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We’re a little less than halfway through The Punisher’s second season and “Nakazat” (the Russian…
Jan 19 2019
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It would be a stretch to call Frank Castle a mentally healthy character, but I’m fascinated by the way this season…
Jan 18 2019
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I’m entirely agnostic about live action superhero properties staying true to their comic book…
Jan 18 2019
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I spent most of my time watching “Trouble The Water” trying to figure out if this was an episode…
Jan 18 2019
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If I’m being charitable, I’d say that “Fight Or Flight” is an episode with about 20 minutes of…
Jan 18 2019
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Jan 18 2019
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The first time I saw 27 Dresses, I felt such a strong emotional connection to its put-upon, self-sacrificing…
Jan 15 2019
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While the “death of the author” theory argues it’s the art itself, not the intentions of its creator that should…
Jan 1 2019
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It turns out there’s a reason “The Battle Of Ranskoor Av Kolos” didn’t feel like much of a…
Dec 21 2018
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It takes a lot to become a new Christmas classic, so it’s doubly impressive that Love Actually managed to enter that…
Dec 20 2018
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Halfway through Second Act, Jennifer Lopez’s working-class-gal-turned-high-end-beauty-industry-consultant has a…