TV Review

HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ Turns a Prestige Game Into Prestige TV

HBO's The Last of Us expands on the lore of the game all while remaining a faithful live-action adaptation to the source… Read More

January 17, 2023

‘Atlanta’ Season 3 Goes Full Surreal By Playing With Rap’s Most Infamous Conspiracy Theory

The surreal — and slightly tense — atmosphere fans have come to love from Atlanta is front and center with its… Read More

March 24, 2022

‘Bel-Air’ Wants To Be More Than ‘Fresh Prince’ Nostalgia — And, So Far, It’s Promising

Bel-Air, the dramatic reboot of the beloved Fresh Prince of Bel-Air series, debuts with its first three episodes on Super Bowl Sunday.… Read More

February 9, 2022

Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Is A Heartfelt Tribute That Isn’t Going To Please Everyone

Adaptations are rarely easy to pull off, and remaking a beloved anime from over two decades ago is extremely difficult.… Read More

November 23, 2021

Dave Chappelle Gets The Last Laugh

With every piece of backlash, Dave Chappelle is willfully mythologizing himself as a “victim” of an amorphous queer conspiracy to… Read More

October 20, 2021

Hip-Hop Was Shut Out of the 2021 MTV VMAs, But Here Are The Best Music Moments

Despite hip-hop being almost nonexistent from the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards, performers including Busta Rhymes, Doja Cat, and Normani… Read More

September 13, 2021

‘Wu-Tang: An American Saga’ Season 2 Is Saving ’36 Chambers’ Until The Very End [Review]

The second season of Wu-Tang: An American Saga is continuing to do more world-building around the group's mythos before going into the… Read More

September 9, 2021

Netflix’s New Anime ‘Yasuke’ is a Gorgeous, Fantastical Look at Japan’s First Black Samurai

While it has its flaws, Netflix's Yasuke is a stylish and sleek anime reinvention of a tragically under-explored piece of… Read More

April 23, 2021

‘Songs That Shook America’ Episode Three: The Legacy of Run-DMC’s Barrier-Breaking Single “Rock Box”

AMC’s Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America is a docu-series that will focus on six individual rap songs that… Read More

October 28, 2019