2015’s Cultural Battleground – Evan’s Account
EDITOR’S NOTE: We end this year by each taking a look back and picking our five best posts, explaining both their importance to us and to the world we currently live in. Clicking the banner images...
View Article2 Broke Girls, S5E6 “And Not the Regular Down There”: A TV Review
Before we get right into the review, I want to spotlight a fact you may not be aware of: there’s a chance 2 Broke Girls may be cancelled. According to the aforelinkedto TV By The Numbers the CBS...
View ArticleThe 2015 Evan Yeong Literary Awards
You can read a better introduction at the beginning of last year’s awards, but I can quickly fill in for any new readers out there that I began reading at a fairly young age and continued on to study...
View Article2 Broke Girls, S5E7 “And the Coming Out Party”: A TV Review
Honestly, it’s been so long since the show has referenced the fact that Caroline Channing is a formerly wealthy heiress that it’s weird to think about how classism was once the foundation the show was...
View Article2 Broke Girls, S5E8 “And the Basketball Jones”: A TV Review
I’m gonna start by reminding all of you nice people that this show’s creators were paying so little attention to last week’s episode that they didn’t even bother changing the “Current Total” or the...
View ArticleThe Character Assassination of Sam Wilson by the Publisher Marvel Comics
Captain America Is Old, Long Live Captain America In July of 2014 it was announced on The Colbert Report that a momentous event would be occurring in the Marvel universe. The blonde, blue-eyed Steve...
View Article2 Broke Girls, S5E9 “And the Sax Problem”: A TV Review
Let me start by saying that it’s about time. I’m not sure how many 2 Broke Girls viewers realize this, but Garrett Morris was an original SNL cast member. With that in mind it’s almost shocking how...
View Article2 Broke Girls, S5E10 “And the No New Friends”
Look, friendship is hard. I know that as well as anyone. In spite of the interconnectedness that allows you to read these words I’m penning in my North York basement apartment from anywhere in the...
View Article2 Broke Girls, S5E12 “And the Story Telling Show”
Midway through its fifth season and 2 Broke Girls has finally done it; Max and Caroline, and consequently the show itself, now have a brand new direction. Ever since Season 4 ended with them...
View Article2 Broke Girls, S5E13 “And the Lost Baggage”
The multi-cam sitcom isn’t exactly at the peak of its popularity right now, The Big Bang Theory reaching its 200th episode being a pretty extreme outlier. If you watch TV regularly at all you’ll have...
View Article2 Broke Girls, S5E14 “And You Bet Your Ass”
Have you ever watched an episode of 2 Broke Girls and thought to yourself, “That episode ended too soon”? The latest installment of Max and Caroline’s Hollywood adventures continues this week, and...
View ArticleJK Rowling’s Problem With America
I read Harry Potter. Liked it. Didn’t love it. Which puts me in perhaps one of the smallest minorities on the planet, between folks who’ve been struck by lightning multiple times and folks named “Craig...
View ArticleHow To Fix American Horror Story
Seems like just yesterday that I was extolling the virtues of a bold little show called American Horror Story. In one of the most (unfairly) reviled and (fairly) stagnant genres, AHS was raising the...
View Article2 Broke Girls, S5E16 “And the Pity Party”: A TV Review
You know what I realized after two whole weeks off of writing reviews? I don’t have to watch these episodes anymore! No, I don’t mean that the show is ending. 2 Broke Girls has actually been renewed...
View ArticleWhat Would Make For A Good Christian Movie?
It seems like a lifetime ago that this blog’s editor and yours truly discussed the question “Why is Christian media so bad?” Because it is. So bad. Like there are dirty limericks carved into the side...
View ArticleHow to Procrastinate Effectively (According to Kat)
I just got home from a mini get-away with a few of my best friends. While I had the best of intentions when it came to prepping this post ahead of time, here I am, a few hours away from when it should...
View Article2 Broke Girls, S5E17 “And the Show and Don’t Tell”: A TV Review
In a little bit of a continuation from last week’s review, tonight’s episode could easily be summed up with “Max and Caroline’s friendship is tested very little, and unsurprisingly manages to remain...
View ArticleStereotypes and Tokenism: What Daredevil Did Wrong and What Riverdale Appears...
So right off the bat, I want to say that Arthur Chu of Jeopardy-winning fame has already done much of the groundwork for me with his [spoiler-filled] article “Not Your Asian Ninja: How the Marvel...
View Article2 Broke Girls, S5E18 “And the Loophole”: A TV Review
So apart from Max heckling customers, which the show hasn’t used to grace a cold open in quite some time, and every character besides Han poking fun at the diner’s general hygiene, the typical setting...
View ArticleFree State of Mind: Behind the Scenes with Producer Terwadkar Rajiv
Last month I was offered the amazing opportunity to watch a screener of Free State, and published my review at the beginning of this one. Set in mid-70s South Africa the film revolves around an...
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