Vacuumslayer has previously spoken about her fondness for the Netflix anthology series Love, Death + Robots. I’m a bit more of a skeptic. The concept is a great one: a series of animated shorts,
There’s an adage that crops up a lot in science fiction circles: a dystopia is a future or alternate world in which things that are happening right now happen to white people. It’s reducti
I’m starting to accept that the long list of things I said I’d write about after getting settled in my new apartment is going to become a list of things I never got around to writing about
I feel a bit weird making this list right now. I’ve spent the last two and a half months preparing for and executing a move, and as a result my capacity to process the written word (much less pr
I’ve been thinking lately about satire, and particularly political satire of our present moment, which often seems to have come pre-satirized, no joke or jibe having more of a bite than actual r
If I had to sum up the focus of my gaming in 2021, it would be: the comfort of the familiar. I spent a lot of time this year re-gaming, playing games I’d already completed all the way from the s
In the interest of full disclosure, I should probably say that I was skeptical about the idea of a Sopranos prequel movie—and especially one focused on Tony Soprano’s teenage years—from the mome
Isn’t it just the way? You wait all summer for a good Netflix series, and then two come along in the same week. No sooner had I finished enjoying Midnight Mass than a critical mass of praise began b