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And somewhere in the space between a science-fiction comedy and a Greek tragedy disguised as a cartoon, Futurama accomplished something extraordinary. It told a story
June 4, 2026
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And somewhere in the space between a science-fiction comedy and a Greek tragedy disguised as a cartoon, Futurama accomplished something extraordinary. It told a story
The Six Feet Under finale understands a truth that television rarely captures. It’s that every goodbye is really a thank-you. The Fishers gave us five
Naturally, Bryan, Preston, Dan, and Chelsea tackle the questions that Nolan either intentionally raised or accidentally unleashed upon humanity. What does Tenet actually mean? Why
When the credits rolled, I felt the same exhilaration I used to feel leaving action movies as a teenager. I was slightly exhausted, mildly deaf,
Because beneath the jokes, the catchphrases, the dance moves, and the brightly colored 1990s wardrobe, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air briefly transformed into something far
For Episode #191, Bryan and Preston sink their teeth into the glorious 2002 relic Queen of the Damned, the film that gave us Aaliyah as
And then came “Through the Looking Glass,” which is still one of television’s most devastating season finales. It’s a title borrowed from Through the Looking-Glass
In Episode #190, the pair descend into the deeply perspiring nightmare of Magic from 1978, a film in which Anthony Hopkins gives one of the
I still miss Eddie Guerrero, which is a ridiculous sentence in some ways because I never knew him. Most of us didn’t. But that is
The series often insisted that “all men must die,” but Hodor’s death carried an additional implication in that some people spend their entire lives unknowingly
On Episode #160 of the Fear and Loathing in Cinema podcast, Bryan, Preston, and Dan descend into the beautiful chaos of Reagan-era action mythology, unpacking
There is something almost spiritual about the way American men talk about ’80s action movies. If you mention Top Gun or Predator at a barbecue
That is what makes it so devastating. Homer Simpson, the patron saint of incompetence, gluttony, and half-baked schemes, finally experiences, for one silent minute, a
Which, in retrospect, makes the episode feel almost unbearably hopeful. Not because it insists humanity always wins out, but because it suggests humanity survives at
Episode #159 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema finds Bryan, Chelsea, Dan, and Preston wandering deep into the crimson sands of John Carter, Disney’s enormously
Watching Is God Is feels like being promised a handmade meal by a celebrated chef and instead receiving an expired Lunchable thrown directly at your
What made M*A*S*Hso extraordinary was its willingness to let comedy and tragedy occupy the same cramped tent together. One minute, somebody was wearing a dress
This week on Episode #158 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema, the gang wades into the warm, cursed waters of Jaws 4: The Revenge, the
What Scrubs understands, perhaps better than many of its more self-serious peers, is that humor does not negate grief. It coexists with it, often in
In a series built on good times, it was the bad one that lingered. Happiness, after all, is most convincing when it acknowledges the possibility
And so “The Body” lingers, long after the credits roll, as a kind of quiet rebuttal to everything the show had taught us to expect.
What makes the scene endure is not just its sweetness but its timing. Five episodes in, Cheers had no obligation to know us this well,
This week on Episode #157 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema, we found ourselves tumbling headfirst into the glittering, bewildering cosmos of Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker.
There are many things one turns to How I Met Your Mother for. The yellow umbrellas, the elaborate pickup theories, and the soothing repetition of
By the end, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy doesn’t just revive an old monster, it drags the entire Universal Monsters catalogue into a dark alley, kicks
By the end, you may not have answers. You will, however, have a lingering sense that art, like friendship and like love, is a living
The Drama is, in the end, a kind of Trojan horse. It’s a love story that smuggles in a far more disquieting question about who
In Episode #156, the group turns its attention to Murder by Numbers, a 2002 relic starring Sandra Bullock, Ryan Gosling, and Michael Pitt. It’s a
There are episodes of a podcast that arrive with the breezy confidence of a brunch invitation. It’s light, convivial, and gone before the coffee cools.
There is a particular pleasure that’s rare, and almost illicit, in watching something survive its own century and come back looking better than you remembered
