PUZZLED PAGAN PRESENTS
A Shrine to Pop Culture Obsessiveness. With Lots of Spoilers
Category: Couch Potato
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A couple of weeks ago I discussed HBO’s Watchmen, a show that I liked quite a bit, and which really hit home how powerful it is to use a more traditional television release schedule, coming out week by week so that everyone can have a communal experience and enjoy it. I honestly think that it was…
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We live in a time where there’s just so much media to consume, that things often get lost in the shuffle. 2019 ended up being a very good year for movies, and as always there was a shocking amount of television that you’re practically required to be up on to stay culturally relevant. And,…
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I tend to write about most things that I experience on this website. Whenever I watch, read, or play something I generally feel the need to write it up, especially if it illicit a strong reaction, either positive or negative in me. But, sometimes it just works out that there are things that I…
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It’s no secret that superheroes currently dominate pop culture. The biggest box offices smashes from Hollywood all feature our favorite heroes and villains comics. Television is getting its own wave of superheroic shenanigans. And even video games are having their fair share of spandex-clad adventures. It’s to the point where I never would judge…
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At times it has felt like I was one of the few people who legitimately enjoyed the Netflix Marvel shows. They certainly had their flaws, but I’m really disappointed that they’ve all been cancelled now, especially since it’s becoming increasingly apparent that it was all thanks to weird corporate reshuffling, Disney’s sudden takeover of…
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Netflix has really come into its own lately, focusing on legitimizing itself as a purveyor of original content. We’ve been talking a lot lately about their forays into film, since it seems like that’s been their biggest push, but that hasn’t stopped the fact that they’ve been churning out original television non-stop, most of…
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It sometimes feels like I’m one of the few people who actual tends to enjoy the Marvel shows that Netflix is currently putting out. They aren’t perfect, but for reasons that I don’t fully understand they seem to illicit and almost irrational amount of hatred in people, most of the shows having been completely…
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I think by now it should be pretty clear that I’m a big fan of the animated shows create by Matt Groening. I spent a staggering amount of my life watching and discussing every single episode of the Simpsons, and despite the serious ebbs and flows of quality over the show’s near thirty years of…
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By this point I feel like it’s fairly clear that I’m one of the few people who have connected with Netflix’s Marvel shows. Every time I write about one of the new seasons I usually have to talk about the fact that I realize most people don’t enjoy them, while acknowledging the fact that…
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If there’s one issue with this golden age of television we’ve found ourselves living in for the past decade, it’s the fact that there isn’t a whole lot that manages to completely permeate the popular consciousness. Now that every imaginable television network, streaming service, and social media platform is putting out their own original…
PUZZLED PAGAN PRESENTS 