At The AV Club, Sonia Saraiya bids farewell to Star Wars: The Clone Wars: “The Clone Wars is the best possible outcome of present-day Lucasfilm: a fun, engaging, and surprisingly serialized cartoon aimed at some interstitial demographic between children and adults—which, if we’re being honest, is what Star […]
Comedian and actor David Brenner has died. The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times have obituaries. The Comics’ Comic and The Hollywood Reporter remembers Brenner. Here’s Brenner’s first appearance on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson.
Lili Loofbourow, Anne Helen Petersen, Evan Kindley and Phillip Maciak respond to the divisive finale of the first season of True Detective while considering detective stories, thrillers, The Detection Club, gendered responses, viewers’ relationships to television, a temporal fallacy and darkness at The LA Times Review Of Books.
“Fan-crafted theorizing is fun enough – it’s a solid way to keep up audience engagement over a show’s run and even inject excitement into series that might be flailing on its own (see: that horrifying “dead mother” theory that’s been circulating amongst How I Met Your Mother fans, […]
At The Hollywood Reporter, comics creator Jim Steranko watches Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. “So, let me ask you this question: If America were really under attack, would you actually want these SHIELD geeks calling the shots?”
The New York Times profiles Archie Comics’ new creative director, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Aguirre-Sacasa scripted both the recent Afterlife With Archie and the Archie/Glee crossover and he is also a screenwriter and playwright.
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