The Inventory

Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed.

For Our Consideration

For Our Consideration

How Crazy Ex-Girlfriend got to “Eleven O’Clock”

Allison Shoemaker

For Our Consideration

For Our Consideration

Why does more Ghostbusters always provoke such anxiety?

For Our Consideration

For Our Consideration

MST3K, Turkey Day, and 30 years of taking over the world before pie is served

11/14/18 4:00PM

This Chinese feminist died fighting for revolution just before it finally arrived

10/21/18 10:00AM

Fembots, dancing queens, and love fools: 60 minutes of Swedish pop

10/12/18 2:00PM

10 episodes of Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law to watch before the new special

10/11/18 6:00AM

The only thing worse than dying on stage is actually dying on stage

9/30/18 10:00AM

Weird Al emerged, post-punk exploded, and DJing matured in 1981

The A.V. Club

In 1862, a slave hijacked a Confederate ship and became a national hero

9/02/18 10:00AM

For Our Consideration

For Our Consideration

Octopath Traveler melts the JRPG down to its pure, comforting core

8/01/18 12:00PM

Psychedelic dystopias, Wario’s wares, and lots more games to play in August

Christopher McQuarrie on the perils of practical action and Henry Cavill’s pesky mustache

Randall Colburn

For Our Consideration

For Our Consideration

30 years ago, Bionic Commando proved video game grappling hooks are awesome

For Our Consideration

For Our Consideration

Let us consider Toad, whatever the hell he is

For Our Consideration

For Our Consideration

The scam industry: How the hip-hop boom sets hopefuls up for failure

7/19/18 11:00AM

For Our Consideration

For Our Consideration

Red Faction: Guerrilla embraced players for what we are: total assholes

Ask an indie rock veteran: What’s the best bad Bob Dylan album?

The Modern Lovers, Pere Ubu, and Blondie were ready to rip up 1976

Clayton Purdom,

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky,

Kelsey J. Waite,

When Romance Met Comedy

When Romance Met Comedy

Before palling around with Ant-Man and the Wasp, Peyton Reed was Down With Love

Wacky cartoon pool, a beautiful throwback RPG, and more games to play in July

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