Why You Should Watch:If you like gothic heroines and gothic romance, Buffy is the gothic fantasy series for you. LikeAngel, it mostly takes place in the modern-day, but there are numerous period flashbacks. The show is heavily inspired by gothic genre tropes such as darkness and shadows, a...
Hulu’s ‘This Fool’ Brings New Perspectives to Age-Old Sitcom Tropes: TV Review The basics of “This Fool” are straightforward and familiar enough. Hulu’s new comedy stars stand-up comedian Chris Estrada as Julio, a 30 year-old who lives with his strict mother (Laura Patalano) and ...
Donald Glover, Alison Brie, and Ken Jeong played a diverse group of students at a community college. With plenty of meta-humor, pop culture references, and parodies of film and TV tropes — as well as Chevy Chase portraying a millionaire who enrolls out of boredom — there’s no surprise...
One of Marvel Comics’ biggest villains, and Spider-Man’s archnemesis, is Norman Osborn, aka the Green Goblin. Though, to date, he’s only been portrayed in live-action by one actor: Willem Dafoe.Dafoe debuted in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man (2005), but his Green Goblin recently came ...
We’ve all seen so many of them that the tropes are tired, and the jokes have been rehashed so many times we can see them coming long before the laugh track tells us we should be reacting to them. To actually make an impression on viewers in this genre, a show...
a comic book show through and through, but one without any source material to be based upon. The journey of the magical jewel-wielding Ladybug and Cat Noir is an exciting one, as they fight against the akumas that turn regular people into supervillains at the behest of their arch-nemesis...
Ah, the ‘90s. It was a nice time to be a kid. Technology gave us cable, Blockbuster Video, and limited access to the internet without being overwhelmed by stuff like TikTok or other references that will make us seem old.