TV Archives

Agatha takes Wanda to therapy, and the show essentially takes its viewers to therapy, as well.

The darker subtexts of Star Trek: Lower Decks point to the reality that, in a very real and metaphysical sense, there are no “little” sins.

Wanda is no longer the picket fence housewife performing community magic shows. No. She’s the pajama-clad matriarch who knows her life is a mess.

Russian Doll speaks to the isolation and surreality of our pandemic moment.

Pietro doesn’t mind if he leads Wanda back to the moral question of Westview, so long as she never acts on it. 

If Wanda really is in control, then that means she’s more powerful than we’ve ever realized.

What is the thematic consistency that binds together all the stories of the MCU?

Comparing 1980 and 2020 reveals how pop culture dramatizes our anxieties.

This week’s WandaVision takes us back to MCU’s most iconic event: Back when Bruce Banner un-Blipped every Blipped being back to their bereaved baes.

Cobra Kai’s lack of mercy on display makes us look for a different way, which the Christmas tradition provides. Christmas is all about mercy.

Whatever is happening, the world as I tend to frame it is far too small; my conception of it, too limiting.

What James Herriot did as a vet—and what he does as a storyteller—he shows us the healing nature of healing nature.

WandaVision is zany and funny and nostalgic, with occasional bursts of creepiness and dread.

Our team highlights their favorite TV shows from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

Just as Scrooge re-evaluates his life and actions when he comes face-to-face with his tombstone, so too does the tradition of memento mori ask us to evaluate our lives in light of eternity.

In the untrained hands of one so powerful as Grogu, the Force is a recipe for calamity.