Adult Swim’s style was messy, chaotic, and pointless. That’s what makes it bad, but also what makes it great. Continue reading
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May 9, 2024
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May 9, 2024
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Adult Swim’s style was messy, chaotic, and pointless. That’s what makes it bad, but also what makes it great. Continue reading
February 29, 2024
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A show about home baking should actually be about home baking. Continue reading
December 30, 2023
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From the 1990s silver screen to the depths of the internet, here are our staff picks of 2023. Continue reading
October 5, 2023
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Most of us will never be superstars, but movies inspire us to pursue stardom. Is there anything wrong with that? Continue reading
January 19, 2022
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How two shows teach us important lessons in navigating trauma and apocalyptic events Continue reading
October 22, 2021
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If Chappelle’s art dines on controversy, cancellation serves it dessert. Continue reading
October 1, 2021
by Alex King
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Netflix’s new comedy/drama gets some key things wrong about higher education, including its “sendup” of woke culture. Continue reading
July 28, 2021
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Physical media feels like a languishing dinosaur in the 21st century world. Here’s why it still matters. Continue reading
December 17, 2019
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This year marks the end of the second decade of the 2000s. In honor of this, we thought we’d take a look back at our decade with an end-of-year series. The internet loves lists, especially year-end ones, and we’ll feed that love a little bit this December. We’ll be hosting seven lists of expert Decade-Best picks. We’ve done movies, games, and writing so far, and you can look forward to music, traditional visual arts, and one surprise list at the end. Our experts include philosophers and other academics whose work concerns these topics, and people working in the relevant media. Up today: TV shows! This decade, as everybody is well aware, has seen an immense boom in quality television. Niche programming and subscription streaming services, and the corresponding influx of money into TV production that has meant, have brought us into a new Golden Age of television. But it can … Continue reading
March 22, 2018
by Matt Strohl
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[Editor’s note: This piece was updated in September 2021.] Aesthetic weakness of will is usually thought of as an incongruity between one’s judgment about the quality of an artwork and one’s liking for it. If I think the Twilight movies are bad but I can’t help but like them, that’s supposed to be aesthetic weakness of will. But is liking really a matter of the will? I might be able to take actions meant to diminish my liking for Twilight: carry around a picture of Bella and Edward and look at it every time I feel nauseous, tell everyone I meet that I like Twilight to give them the opportunity to shame me, or deliberately watch the movies more often than I want to so that I become sick of them. If I judge that I should take these actions but then fail to follow through because I love Twilight too much, that sounds like weakness of will. … Continue reading