Yesterday, HBO released a new teaser video for Season 7 of Game of Thrones, and while it showed us not a single frame of the actual season, one thing is clear: Winter is here. There's a chill in Westeros, as Cersei Lannister’s visible breath shows, and things are only going to get colder. But climate […]
Frank Ockenfels 3 In 1990, American TV viewers were introduced to the bucolic town of Twin Peaks, Washington—and to creator David Lynch’s creepy-campy propensity for distorting the mundane. In its short two-season run, the neonoir series netted a pile of awards, earned a cult following, and reset expectations for what a TV show could be, […]
Ever since the first trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi hit the internet, fans have sensed a great disturbance in the Force. In its final moments, Luke Skywalker, whose path to Jedi-hood filled an entire trilogy, proclaimed the one truth he had learned: "It's time for the Jedi to end." It's nice to see […]
One of the biggest news stories this week is a cover-up, a deception manufactured by hyper-partisan ideologues trying to distract from a burning, uncomfortable truth. That truth—the one those biased muckrakers won’t tell you about—has implications for national security. It shows the corruption and self-interest eating away at the United State’s most hallowed institutions. And […]
After an endless wait that felt like being trapped in a time loop, Doctor Who finally returned last night. But while the Season 10 premiere featured plenty of the usual time-traveling madness, it paid fealty to another major sci-fi influence—one that Who fans might already be familiar with, but establishes a surprising direction for the […]
Every Netflix series aims to be a topic of conversation, to generate buzz. Its drama 13 Reasons Why, though, is getting people talking for reasons no other show on the streaming service has before. Since its release in March, schools across the country have sent notes home warning parents about the show's graphic depictions of […]
Bad news, everyone: It's not December yet, so the 8-bit trailer above is the closest you're going to get to seeing Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Still, at least it's been approved by director Rian Johnson himself. Meanwhile, the world is so hungry for information about the new movie that folks are getting excited about […]
My favorite moment in Prey occurred while floating in space. I drifted, the space station Telos I turning over behind me, through nothingness, using my booster pack to navigate toward an objective in orbit around the station. A character asked who I was. They probed, for a moment, about my character's identity, wondering how it […]
[UPDATE: 4/16/17 8:29 P.M. PST — Facebook has responded to various news reports, claiming that while Steve Stephens did post a Facebook Live at some point during the day, the shooting in question was not broadcast via Facebook Live. Rather, it was recorded and then uploaded. We've clarified the story throughout to reflect the new […]
One of the rewards of inventing something new is that you get to name it. The name doesn’t always stick; with familiarity, “horseless carriages” tend to become “automobiles” and finally mere “cars.” But the original coinage is a snapshot of how we saw the world in that moment, flush with delight in new possibilities. Imagine: […]