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This Tube

Reader Rudolph Harrier writes in a comment on yesterday's post: I’ve been spending a lot of time with older relatives over the holidays and with the boomer-tier that always means the TV is on in the background, especially for the news (even if it’s the 9 o’clock news and they…
December 30, 20219 Comments
Travis Bickle Loser

Biggest Loser

Regular readers know I'm always on the lookout for new cultural insights. To that effect, a recent Twitter thread just caught my eye. This thread resonates with a post I wrote earlier this year about the same phenomenon. The only difference is the decade. If you want to gauge how…
October 19, 202112 Comments
TV

Cozy TV

Conservatives rightly take a lot of flak for endlessly whining about the culture war while persistently failing to fight on the cultural level. At best, the Death Cult's notional opponents fund movies no one but National Review subscribers will see or launch alt tech platforms that are either garbage, fed…
October 13, 20219 Comments

Stealing the Limelight

The clearest creative vision can be thwarted if a writer's own characters get other ideas. Sometimes a secondary character can emerge from the background and steal the limelight from the rest of the cast. These breakout characters often start out benign, but studio and network interference are notorious creative carcinogens. Here…
May 20, 2021
Anime Has Fallen

Anime Has Fallen

Contrary to many anime fans' hopes, the fanatical, totalitarian Cult that's usurped pop culture isn't letting a little thing like an ocean get in the way of their conquest. Funimation, the American dubbing and distribution house that made news last year thanks to a defamation lawsuit brought against them by…
April 2, 202024 Comments
Window to the Past

Window to the Past

The inventors of television probably thought they were pioneering a revolutionary new communications medium. What they couldn't have suspected was that they were creating the next best thing to a time machine. Yesterday I stumbled across this compilation of TV commercials someone had taped on a Saturday morning that time…
March 6, 202014 Comments
HBO Hates You

HBO Hates You

Don't give them money. From Black Pilled via Twitter: The New Pope is a drama television series created and directed by Paolo Sorrentino for Sky Atlantic, HBO and Canal+. It is a continuation of the 2016 series The Young Pope, originally announced as its second season.[1] The nine-episode series stars…
January 15, 202013 Comments
They Don’t Believe Nothing…

They Don’t Believe Nothing…

This is a scene from a Game of Thrones watching party at a small pub--one of many which take place weekly around the world. Including on Easter Sunday. That's not a picture of people passively enjoying entertainment. What's captured in this still is an act of worship. Look at the woman…
April 30, 201936 Comments
Tumblr: The Anime

Tumblr: The Anime

If you're an up-and-coming indie author who's a Millennial, a member of Generation Y, or even a Gen Xer, your dream scenario for publishing success probably includes getting your IP optioned as an anime series. For years the common refrain anytime an American voiced such hopes was, "Anime studios don't…
August 22, 201859 Comments
Fat Kafkatrap

Fat Kafkatrap

Alpha Geek Daddy Warpig shares news of the latest SJW kafkatrap disguised as entertainment. Netflix's trailer for its new series, Insatiable, is facing a backlash across social media for its apparent "fat-shaming" plot. The series stars Debby Ryan as Patty, a high school teen who has been bullied because of…
July 20, 201821 Comments