The Comedians Have Failed Us and We Are Adrift on a Moonless Sea
If we can’t get our news from Comedy Central, from whom can we get it?
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Posts by John Perich on Overthinking It
John Perich lives in the Boston area and writes about current and classic pop culture. He's the author of the gritty crime thrillers Too Close to Miss, Too Hard to Handle, and Too Late to Run.
Never Watch the Pilot
They’re usually bad, and you won’t miss much.
Amazon’s “Patriot”: An Audience of One
What if a bleak, existentialist comic drama speaks to you and only you?
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Words Without Knowledge: Ambiguous Endings and Insane Fan Theories
Why can’t some fans just leave an ambiguous ending alone?
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Bond After Bond: A Theory of James Bond Casting
Who will be the next James Bond? Not who you think.
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Everybody’s Free (To Stream Movies)
Is legal streaming taking over where illegal downloading once reigned? Your mid-thirties correspondent reflects.
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“Miami 2017” vs NYC, 2017
Why is Billy Joel’s post-apocalyptic anthem still popular?
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100 Days, 100 Nights: Marvel Series and Netflix Bloat
Why are Marvel’s Netflix series 13 episodes when they could be 10? or 8?
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What Type of Gamer am I?
Gamer Culture as a social and economic category is defined in some stiflingly narrow ways. This is a problem. Here’s why.
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Press A to Continue: Video Games and Challenging Art
Is playing a video game that keeps killing you similar to the experience of continuously trying to read James Joyce?
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