• ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Considers New Recruits, Citizenship in an Episode That Is Fine

    The newest episode of What We Do in the Shadows had an impossible task from the word “newest-episode-of-What-We-Do-in-the-Shadows” (I know it’s not one word, let’s not get precious!). The last episode was sublime. Beyond the guest stars, it incorporated threads that were traced back to earlier episodes, and felt narratively important. There was virtually no…

  • ‘Game of Thrones’ S8 E6: The Final Meltdown

    So Bran is not the Night King. Nobody time travelled and most of your other favorite internet fan theories did not come to fruition in the last of our 73 episode tour of Westeros. If you had told me beforehand that only a single, solitary character would die in the last episode of Game of…

  • The (Other) iTunes $0.99 Movie of the Week: ‘Lords of Chaos’

    Every week, the folks at iTunes find a movie they like and make it available to rent for the low, low price of $0.99. I’m here to tell you whether that film is worth your hard-earned dollar. Ok, the featured $0.99 movie this week is a little documentary called The Dawn Wall. It looks to be harrowing…

  • Vinyl Me, Please May Edition: Experience Unlimited – ‘Free Yourself’

    Good things come in 12 inch packages. Delivering limited edition pressings of new and classic albums directly to your doorstep, Vinyl Me, Please operates under a simple philosophy: The Album Lives. With a carefully curated catalog of new and hard to find releases, the subscription service is more than just a record club, it’s a lifestyle choice…

  • The Second Coming of Fleabag

    With the new season of Fleabag edging towards our collective arseholes, you might be wondering how one could top such a lurid display as the first. The 6 episode flirtation with our glorious leader was equal parts beguiling and bedraggled. The very first scene that lit the fire anon: witnessing a late-night triste with a…

  • The Creative Brain: Bending, Breaking and Blending

    Based on the book The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes The World, authored by composer Anthony Brandt and neuroscientist David Eagleman, The Creative Brain is a 2018 documentary that Netflix made available for streaming on April 16. Eagleman is a New York Times bestselling author who wrote and hosted the documentary series The Brain…

  • 4 Weirdo TV Shows Way Too Ahead of Their Time

    Somewhere in the back of your mind, there’s a memory of that one bizarre TV show you can’t remember the name of. It could be right here in this post! And if it’s not, one of these will satisfy your itch for a truly strange television program. All of these were so far ahead of…