Batman, De La Soul, and the most-anticipated TV shows of fall: The A.V. Club's best stories of the week

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

Monday

• Weird Al emerged, post-punk exploded, and DJing matured in 1981
  
• YouTube’s Topless Baker dishes on all things GBBO in Bake Off, Undressed
  
• Sing-alongs and bare asses: Nostalgia ruled at this year’s Riot Fest
  
• Ben Schwartz and Kat Graham on Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the perfect reboot
  
• We’re liveblogging the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards
  

Tuesday

• The Road, A Quiet Place, and the golden age of prepper pop culture
  
• The best, worst, and weirdest games from Castlevania’s 30-year history
  
• Nicole Holofcener on Ben Mendelsohn, Catherine Keener, and saying “ugh” to superhero films
  

Wednesday

• 60 minutes proving De La Soul is one of hip-hop’s greats—but its legacy is in danger
  
• Ghosts can do it: 8 pop cultural instances of human-on-ghost love
  

Thursday

• The A.V. Club’s 11 most-anticipated TV shows of fall 2018
  
• Mandy and Beyond The Black Rainbow share a lot more than the year 1983
  

Friday

• Christopher Nolan dragged Batman (and superhero cinema) into a more serious “real” world
  
• The Bard’s Tale IV makes you fight tooth and nail for its dungeon-crawling goodness
  
• A rare view of Prince, plus Metric and more in this week’s new music
  
• 7 overplayed songs that still make us happy in movie trailers
  
• Batman: Damned strips down the Dark Knight for a revealing thriller