An intro to K-pop, and The Simpsons' vacations, ranked: The A.V. Club's best stories of the week

Here’s a compilation of our favorite features we published this week.

Monday

• The Cars is so much more than The Cars’ greatest hits
  
• This week in Podmass: “GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!”
  

Tuesday

• Get caught up on K-pop in 60 minutes
  
• The 15 best video game trailers of E3 2018
  

Wednesday

• The Simpsons vacation episodes, ranked
  
• Brockmire’s second season promised booze but delivered medicine
  
• Here’s everything you should remember before watching season 2 of Luke Cage
  

Thursday

• “We need to see more”: 5 queer TV creators discuss the present and future of LBGTQIA+ representation
  
• With eerie timeliness, a Handmaid’s Tale tears apart mother and child
  
• Nasir brought us at least one stone-cold classic Nas track
  
• How the writer of this week’s Handmaid’s Tale created that topical scene of family separation
  
• Is the new Jurassic Park movie dumb fun or just dumb?
  

Friday

• 25 years ago, Sleepless In Seattle found the romantic hiding in the cynic
  
• In Quarantine Circular, the fate of humanity rests on your conversation with an alien
  
• The post-A career: 8 artists we’ll always follow despite never living up to their initial greatness
  
• Nine Inch Nails, Kamasi Washington, and more albums to know about this week