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Category: Pop Culture
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What’s the Best Marvel Disney+ Show?
Now that we’ve wrapped the first season of Loki, we have a pretty good sample of the Marvel shows on Disney Plus. But out of the three we’ve seen so far, which one is the best? We take a look at WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki in this Whatcha Watchin’ video.
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Is ‘Loki’ your new favorite Disney+ series?
Non-spoiler review: We’ve now seen WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as the first entries into the Marvel streaming series universe, but Loki might just become your favorite Disney+ show.
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Disney’s ‘Cruella’ Not Quite Campy Enough to Be Fun
How do you take a character most known for an unshakeable desire to murder a bunch of puppies and turn her into a not-like-the-other-girls-rebel-girl-boss heroine of her own story? Disney’s Cruella attempts to answer that question.
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#ReleaseTheSynderCut: Examining the Infamy of ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’
A look at the series of unfortunate events that led to the infamous #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign, resulting in the eventual streaming-only release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League on HBO Max.
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Does ‘Godzilla vs Kong’ Deliver the Gigantic Monster Fight of Your Dreams?
Hollywood has struggled with nailing the tone of Godzilla movies in the past, either going too serious or too goofy. Thankfully, Godzilla vs Kong seems to know what we want to see in a big monster fight film, and most important of all, it’s fun.
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‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Plays it Safe
After the wild weirdness of WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier offers an MCU story more grounded in reality that seems to aim for playing it safe. Read more in our spoiler-free review.
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WandaVision Makes its Refreshingly Weird Debut
If you’re in the Venn diagram of people who watched old Nick at Nite and people who love the MCU, this refreshingly weird series is going to be right up your alley.
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What We Do in the Shadows, When Spinoffs Go Right
FX’s What We Do in the Shadows is one of the rare TV shows adapted from a movie that actually lives up to the original. Here’s how this series defied the TV spinoff odds and became one of the best new comedies on TV.
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Why Doesn’t Anybody Remember True Blood?
True Blood was one of HBO’s biggest hits, but just six years after the final episode aired, it seems like nobody talks about it anymore. Why did the show go from sexy, campy classic to fizzled-out and forgotten?
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The Millennial Gal’s Guide to Relatable Comedies
Female-led comedies have moved away from aspirational shows like Friends or Sex and the City toward awkward, relatable shows like Hulu’s Shrill and Pen15.
