Watchmen’s Doctor Manhattan dildo is as important as it is large
Jean Smart in HBO’s Watchmen | HBO Why Doctor Manhattan’s big blue penis matters. For a brief moment in the third episode of Watchmen, a show where anything can happen,...
In praise of Diana Wynne Jones, the fairy godmother of children’s fantasy
Sophie and Howl ride the wind to the moving castle. | Marie-Alice Harel/Folio Society The bracingly commonsense magic of Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle is on full display in the new...
Now that Netflix has more streaming competitors, it suddenly cares about ratings
The cast of Netflix’s Queer Eye. | Austin Hargrave/Netflix Netflix used to say that Nielsen numbers were useless. Now that’s changing. Netflix, which is best known for streaming TV shows,...
When I twerked onstage with Lizzo, it was an act of political defiance
Courtesy of Sami Schalk Some think professors shouldn’t have fun. I’ve got something to show them. Last week, I made one of my dreams come true: I donned a skin-tight...
Netflix’s The Laundromat is certainly the most entertaining way to learn about the Panama Papers
Meryl Streep in The Laundromat. | Claudette Barius/Netflix Meryl Streep leads a star-studded cast in an uneven, but illuminating, tale of real-life corruption, directed by Steven Soderbergh. Every week, new...
ABC’s Emergence blends Lost with This Is Us and adds a dash of E.T.
Allison Tolman stars as a police chief who meets a mysterious young girl in Emergence. | ABC Studios It’s better than that sounds. In Watch This, Vox critic at large...
In 1986, Watchmen skewered the way we love superheroes. It’s still as relevant as ever.
The cover of Watchmen #1. | Gibbons/DC Why we keep coming back to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen. Watchmen was never meant to be a regular superhero comic book,...
Barney the Dinosaur is getting a new movie. But is America ready?
Barney the Dinosaur will soon be back to spread his dire message of love and kindness. | PBS/YouTube Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya will co-produce Mattel’s plunge into a dark purple...