Media Critique Blogs

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• The Hidden Privilege of “The Great British Bake Off” — What if your favorite cozy show also hides class bias? Here I examine Christopher Bartel's essay on The Great British Ba
• The Firehose and the Feed — Reading the RAND report and the Paying Attention paper side by side made the incentive landscape clearer to me. I map ho
• The Best and Worst of the New Yorker’s First Issue — Curious about the New Yorker's 1925 debut? Growing up with a subscription and a huge cartoon collection meant I read the
• Breaking down the gender composition of SNL sketches — Curious whether recent SNL seasons really have more female sketches, I used snldb to count sketches with at least two ca
• Friday Videos Love Being Not Sluggish — Vintage commercials are the best time machines. In this Friday video I dig up an 18 to 20 year old, VHS-y commercial and
• Netflix and the Hollywood End Game — What happens when distribution beats content? I trace Netflix's shift from DVDs to global streaming, explain why interne
• Extreme E is dead. Long live Extreme... H? — Making me watch this is gonna be a hard cell.
• ‘Avengers: Armageddon’ is the Massive Marvel Shakeup We’ve Been Waiting For — This five-issue limited series, launching this June, feels like the natural culmination of Chip Zdarsky and his run on C
• On Shogun — Watching Shōgun sent me back to early modern Japan, historical drama, and the uneasy line between entertainment and accu
• His Own Worst Enemy — Watching a public figure self-destruct in real time is equal parts tragic and darkly funny. I dig into ego, bad decision
• Just Like The Titan — Big ego, bigger fall. I’m comparing modern power players to sinking ships too much hubris, not enough lifeboats. A mix o
• Media Diary (April 2023) — A snapshot of what I watched, read, and listened to this month plus the stray thoughts they sparked. Casual notes on boo
• ‘Blood Honey’ One-Shot Review: IDW’s Darkest High School Horror Story — For a lot of us, high school felt like a real emotional battlefield, but in Sean Peacock’s Blood Honey, that metaphor ta
• If You Don't Eat Your Meat, You Can't Have Any Pudding! — Pink Floyd lyrics remix prison food coercion, authority absurdity. Satire on carceral control through mundane daily ritu
• Mean Girls — "Mean Girls" (2004 or musical) analysis. Teen social hierarchy, Plastics satire, Lindsay Lohan era cultural snapshot.
• The End of Sex — "The End of Sex" romcom review. Explores modern relationships, swinging/swappers trope, couple dynamics in contemporary
• From Iron Man to Doctor Doom: Explaining the RDJ Return and the Wildest Fan Theories — With Avengers: Doomsday getting closer every day, it is clear that Marvel is playing a much deeper game than most people