Category: Watch
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Thoughts on True Detective Night Country
“It’s always the same damn story with the same damn ending. So we told ourselves a different story, with a different ending.” Spoilers, naturally. So, I finished it. Like 3.2 million people, I watched the season finale of True Detective: Night Country. I’ve spent the last 36 hours hooting and hollering and I think I…
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Twisters looks bad, and I’m upset
It’s the Super Bowl, and that means we’re being inundated by all sorts of commercials and trailers for stuff we didn’t know we needed. One such trailer is the one that just dropped for Twisters, the sequel to the 1996 Jan De Bont-directed, Michael Crichton-written natural disaster movie starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton and Cary…
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Is True Detective Better as a Supernatural Story? Signs Point to No
Spoilers ahead. You know the drill. The first season of True Detective rocked the shit out of me. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson were incredible as two scumbags with badges on different sides of the shitpile trying to solve a fucked up murder in a place the rest of the world forgot. McConaughey’s Rust Cohle,…
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Nihilism is so easy, which is why we need to kill it
So last night it dawned on me that, after over two years of being relatively symptom-free, my depression snuck back up on me and has taken over.
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Review: Hold Tight and Hope Nothing Goes Wrong in “South of the Circle.”
South of the Circle, State of Play Games’s latest game for Apple Arcade, also begins with a plane crash in the coldest, driest place on Earth.
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When All You Need Is A HAMMER, Why Not Treat Everything Like NAILS?
Despite never playing them until recently, I have adored the Yakuza series for a while.
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Playlist: The Best Video Essays About Games in 2019
As we wrap up 2019, check out these seven amazing videos about games.
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Now That Ash Ketchum Has Finally Won A Pokémon Tournament, Let Him Age
Ash has been 10 or 11 years old for two decades now and it’s getting creepy. Maybe his victory in the Alola Pokémon League will finally break the curse.