Seven Questions for Al-Masih from Netflix’s “Messiah”
One way or another, Payam Golshiri needs to be picked apart by pedantic pharisees.
Doomsday Clock is more of a “Fuck You” to Moore than HBO’s Watchmen
Johns’ reconstruction of the superhero genre which Watchmen deconstructed directly undermines Moore’s message
“Christ and Culture” and Daredevil
Daredevil’s arc explores the paradigms for societal engagement by Christians laid out by Niebuhr in his classic tome
The Philosophy of Black Museum
Here’s the link to my first video that I wrote for Wisecrack exploring narrative empathy in the the Black Mirror Season 4 finale, Black Museum: Wisecrack QuickTake: Black Mirror: What’s the Point
Powerless’ Pilot is a Campy Cape Opera in All the Worst Ways
Far too many shots linger on the crude costumes and shoddy special effects. It robs Charm City of the very verisimilitude necessary for the characters inhabiting it to likewise be believable.
Black Liberation Theology in Marvel’s Luke Cage
Every bit as much as Daredevil is a hero is shaped and defined by Irish Catholicism, so too is Luke Cage cut from Black Liberation Theology.
Game of Thrones Season Six
Far from repudiating Tolkien, Game of Thrones eclipses him: its darkness is so much darker, and yet, because of such, its light is likewise brighter.
Daredevil Season Two
Daredevil is besought on all sides by faceless foes, competent in combat but heartless. Such is true not only of generic gaiden, but of the series’ second season itself.
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow #101 – “Pilot”
Past experience has proved that even eventually excellent superhero shows have poor pilots, and the dismal debut of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow certainly doesn’t buck this trend.
Jessica Jones
No little girl watching this show would look at Jessica Jones and think, “When I grow up, I want to be like her.” If there were tie-in merchandise for said little girl’s parents to buy her, it’d be a shard of broken glass and a bottle of cheap whiskey.
The Hub City Review 