While many iterations of the friendship sitcom exist, a Black woman invented the genre as we know it today, and a…
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A contributor for Playboy and Hollywood Reporter Joelle writes about film, television, and comic books. A speaker, host, and avid podcaster her reviews have been featured on NPR, BBC1, and ET.
In a year that saw many of us relegated to our homes for much of its duration, TV was an ever more powerful medium…
The final episode of Lovecraft Country serves as a tribute to Black motherhood in all of its many shapes.…
Secrets come out, Hippolyta is back, and Tic, Leti, and Montrose are headed back in time. It’s the Tulsa episode,…
They murdered Emmett Till, and it hurts all over again. Directed by Misha Green, “Jig-A-Bobo” sees Tic, Leti, Diana,…
On this week’s episode of Lovecraft Country, the haunted Winthrop House hides roots that lead all the way to Boston.…
This week’s episode, “Holy Ghost,” finds Leti as a homeowner of a rundown boarding house in an all-white…
Lovecraft Country serves up another dish of oh-my-god-what-the-fuck as biblical imagery, science, and magic collide…
Watching the opening scene of HBO’s Lovecraft Country, viewers may find themselves in a state of déjà…
In the Clark sisters’ home, Mama Clark considers the word “easy” a swear. “We don’t do easy,” she explains to her…
Very rarely, when one sits down to watch a new show, does the sensation strike that the story being told holds…
Early on in the second season of Altered Carbon, an off-world fight scene in a bar, complete with samurai swords and…
Netflix’s new Locke & Key begins with a clear message: Escape is not an option. Based on the comic book series by…
You became a surprise hit when its first season got a second life on Netflix. The show used toxic tropes from the…
Now you knew Damon Lindelof wouldn’t allow us to see the birth of the god queen Angela Abar (Regina King). Sorry, I…
The Watchmen comic series shed light on the morally corrupt, broken, and deranged beings the comic-book world lifted…
Remember all the way back to last week, when Watchmen outdid itself in the exploration of inherited trauma? The…
For 80 years, spandex crusaders have managed to thrive in popular culture, their tone reflecting the youth…
Watchmen takes us to ground zero on 11/2, and inside the mind of Looking Glass in “Little Fear Of Lightning.”…
For the second straight week, Watchmen introduces a badass, game-changing woman to the canon of heroes. If last…