Mack does not want the team to split up to explore their creepy outer space whereabouts — and for good reason — in the highly enjoyable (and long-awaited) first promo for Season 5 of ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. RELATEDAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5: First Details on 4 New Faces With Inhumans now out of the […]
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‘Valor,’ ‘Seal Team,’ and ‘The Brave’: The Tropes and Triggers of TV’s New Breed of Military Drama
A crop of new shows re-tell the cultural myth that that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. https://media.wired.com/photos/59dd43c3038dcc0ef87cc17d/master/pass/Military-FeatureArt.jpg Feed: All Latest
‘GLOW’s’ Britney Young on the Paradoxes of Pro Wrestling and the Constrictions of Hollywood Tropes
GLOW‘s first season was an unremittingly fun piece of period meta-television that somehow didn’t feel forced. It had a keen understanding of how pro wrestling is not only a performance, but also one with narratives that reflect society’s generalizations about body type, ethnicity, and gender at any given period. And it showed its central characters […]
‘Moana’ Honest Trailer: Making Fun of Disney’s Tropes While Still Being Guilty of Them
As the weather starts to warm up with spring just around the corner, you couldn’t ask for a better time for Disney’s most recent animated musical to be available on home video. Moana takes us to the South Pacific to follow an independent, strong young girl who wants nothing more than to set sail on […]