Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast Episode #15: WandaVision

Squid Game Season Three Review

This review will contain spoilers for all three seasons of Netflix’s series Squid Game (all of which are currently streaming). If you haven’t watched the entire series, finish it up and then come on back to this review. You have been warned. Squid Game was never going to have a happy ending. This wasn’t going […]

Modern Love (Spoiler-Free) Review

Amazon’s latest television offering sounds great on paper: an anthology series exploring love in the Big Apple, starring the likes of Anne Hathaway, Dev Patel, Tina Fey, John Slattery (Mad Men), and Andrew Scott (the Hot Priest of Fleabag), where each episode clocks in at around 30 minutes. With those bonafides, Modern Love should be […]

Things Get Better?: LGBTQ Representation in Animation in 2022

In January 2022, I wrote that there was a possibility that in 2022 things would “get better” in terms of LGBTQ representation, with new fandoms developing from shows which take risks by telling diverse stories. Although 2022, in some regards, more than lived up to this possibility and went beyond, there were challenges. In the […]