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“Dangerous Liaisons” opens with a fantastically trippy advertisement for Obsidian North’s latest piece of tech:…
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.
Oct 29 2019
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The best episodes of This Is Us are often the ones that zero in on a specific story or theme, rather than trying to…
Oct 27 2019
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Last season, Supergirl managed to turn a silly deus ex machina about Alex using plants to bring Kara back to life…
Oct 25 2019
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Can a girl fall in love with the guy who ate her boyfriend’s brains? In a genre filled with repetitive set-ups, you…
Oct 23 2019
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This Is Us has an interesting conundrum on its hands. Back when the show debuted, the present-day Pearsons were a…
Oct 20 2019
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As the title suggests, “Blurred Lines” is all about blurry boundaries. Nia is struggling to set healthy limits with…
Oct 16 2019
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— “You have a weird life.”
Oct 14 2019
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As is usually the case with Supergirl, the second episode of the season serves almost as a second half of the…
Oct 11 2019
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Middle school is a special kind of hell, so it helps to have some sympathetic pop culture to get you through it. For…
Oct 9 2019
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“Unhinged” is an interesting conundrum of an episode. I liked, if not outright loved, nearly every one of its…
Oct 6 2019
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With four seasons under its belt, Supergirl is no longer the scrappy new kid on the superhero block. That tonight’s…
Oct 2 2019
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Though it may feature a cameo from the master of movie twists, M. Night Shyamalan, tonight’s episode of This Is Us is…
Sep 27 2019
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My favorite exchange in The Philadelphia Story demonstrates the power of a comma. Upon learning that his fiancée…
Sep 25 2019
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The reason the big twist at the end of the This Is Us pilot worked so well is because no one was expecting a twist…
Sep 16 2019
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With a cast of dozens and a timeline that spanned 14 years across six seasons, even the most ardent Downton Abbey fan…
Sep 13 2019
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Within the ever-buzzy genre of “Netflix rom-coms,” is the even more specific subset of high school romantic…
Sep 13 2019
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Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler) and Julia Sullivan (Drew Barrymore) make each other laugh. That’s a surprisingly rare…
Sep 10 2019
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In retrospect, it’s clear that writer-creator Julian Fellowes already had his sights set on a reunion when he…
Sep 10 2019
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Judy Garland reinvented herself dozens of times in her 47 years of life. The child vaudevillian. The teenage girl…
Aug 30 2019
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The year after Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis played ballerina rivals in Darren Aronofsky’s 2010 psychological…