Welcome back to Rewatching Smallville, my weekly dive into the iconic series that explores Clark Kent’s journey before becoming Superman. Whether you’re a long-time fan or new to the show, you’re invited to join in each Tuesday as I revisit episodes and share my thoughts and observations. Be sure to share your own memories and … Continue reading Rewatching Smallville – Episode 111
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Abed Nadir: Deconstructing the Fourth Wall Breaking Character
If you've spent any time in the Greendale study room, you know there's a moment in nearly every episode where Abed Nadir looks directly at the situation unfolding around him and names exactly what kind of episode it is. A bottle episode. A clip show. A flashback structure. A documentary. He says it out loud, … Continue reading Abed Nadir: Deconstructing the Fourth Wall Breaking Character
Smallville Fan Culture: Tributes, Fan Theories, and Iconic Moments
It's been over fifteen years since Clark Kent hung up his red and blue for the final time on Smallville, and yet here we all are, still talking about it. Still rewatching it. Still arguing about whether the show needed ten seasons or whether seven would've done just fine (I have thoughts, but that's a … Continue reading Smallville Fan Culture: Tributes, Fan Theories, and Iconic Moments
Rewatching Smallville – Episode 110
Welcome back to Rewatching Smallville, my weekly dive into the iconic series that explores Clark Kent’s journey before becoming Superman. Whether you’re a long-time fan or new to the show, you’re invited to join in each Tuesday as I revisit episodes and share my thoughts and observations. Be sure to share your own memories and … Continue reading Rewatching Smallville – Episode 110
The Character Couch – Eleanor Shellstrop
Welcome back to The Character Couch, where we dust off our amateur psychology credentials and spend some quality time with fictional people who absolutely could have benefited from a real therapist at some point. Today's subject shuffled in a little late, made a joke about the waiting room being a trap, and spent the first … Continue reading The Character Couch – Eleanor Shellstrop
The Game of Emmys: Analyzing the Success of Game of Thrones
There is something bittersweet about looking back at Game of Thrones through the lens of the Emmy Awards. For most of its run, the show was a phenomenon unlike anything television had seen before. It was prestige drama dressed in dragon scales, a fantasy series that made everyone — even people who swore they would … Continue reading The Game of Emmys: Analyzing the Success of Game of Thrones
Rewatching Smallville – Episode 109
Welcome back to Rewatching Smallville, my weekly dive into the iconic series that explores Clark Kent’s journey before becoming Superman. Whether you’re a long-time fan or new to the show, you’re invited to join in each Tuesday as I revisit episodes and share my thoughts and observations. Be sure to share your own memories and … Continue reading Rewatching Smallville – Episode 109
More Than a Host: The Enduring Legacy of Alex Trebek
I've written before about my complicated relationship with Jeopardy! — how I dreaded it as a kid, how it became appointment television once I discovered I actually loved trivia, and how watching it with my dad became one of the great rituals of my adult life. But when I sit down and think honestly about … Continue reading More Than a Host: The Enduring Legacy of Alex Trebek
Rewatching Smallville – Episode 108
Welcome back to Rewatching Smallville, my weekly dive into the iconic series that explores Clark Kent’s journey before becoming Superman. Whether you’re a long-time fan or new to the show, you’re invited to join in each Tuesday as I revisit episodes and share my thoughts and observations. Be sure to share your own memories and … Continue reading Rewatching Smallville – Episode 108
Stargate: Building a TV Universe from a Single Film
Here's something worth thinking about as Amazon MGM Studios gears up for a brand new Stargate series: a movie that Roger Ebert once called out by name as evidence of cinema at its worst somehow spawned over 15 years of television, 364 episodes across three live-action series, two direct-to-DVD films, and a Guinness World Record. … Continue reading Stargate: Building a TV Universe from a Single Film
The Confusing Middle 