Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast #20: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Star Trek: Picard – Mercy Review

This week’s episode of Picard felt, much like Jurati’s mind, fractured in its effectiveness. Some elements worked very well – Jurati Queen’s continued plot to assimilate Earth, Soong’s downward spiral, the revelation that Q is dying and doesn’t seem to know how to go gentle into the dark night – while other pieces felt half-baked […]

Top 15 Simpsons Halloween Segments

Ever since the second season of The Simpsons there has been a tradition to broadcast a “Treehouse of Horror” episode around Halloween. Some of them are the best episodes the show has ever produced. These episodes tell three stories that allow the writers and animators to be as inventive as they want. They have been used to parody movies and TV shows, […]

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – A Hedge Knight Review

The latest Game of Thrones spin-off has made its way to HBO. And it’s something quite different than fans of the bloody, violent, and overstuffed series might expect. It’s rare that I ended an episode of Thrones or House of the Dragon thinking, “Oh, what a lovely episode!” But watching the pilot of A Knight […]