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Past articles by Eric:

The Good Lord Bird ends quietly, but John Brown goes marching on

In its finale, The Good Lord Bird indicts the broader “polite” society, those who will only be driven to care about injustice when it involves someone who looks like them. → Read More

The Good Lord Bird pulls out the fireworks for a botched version of Harpers Ferry

The penultimate episode of Good Lord Bird covers the actual Harpers Ferry raid, but after a season spent building to the thing everyone knows about John Brown, it’s a bit of a letdown. → Read More

John Brown’s army prepares to raid Harpers Ferry in a funny, energetic Good Lord Bird

Daveed Diggs returns as Frederick Douglass in "Hiving The Bees," a fun, energetic episode of The Good Lord Bird. → Read More

Onion and John Brown meet Harriet Tubman in a sleepy Good Lord Bird

Harriet Tubman comes to The Good Lord Bird in a languid midseason episode. But at least Ethan Hawke is still firing on all cylinders as John Brown. → Read More

Daveed Diggs steps into the spotlight as a horny Frederick Douglass on The Good Lord Bird

Daveed Diggs brings his talent for playing self-important historical tomcats to The Good Lord Bird. → Read More

Onion takes center stage in a slow episode of The Good Lord Bird

Ethan Hawke's John Brown is mostly absent from this episode of The Good Lord Bird, which is maybe important to establish Onion as the protagonist of the show but also feels a bit premature. → Read More

John Brown makes a bloody entrance to The Good Lord Bird

The Good Lord Bird, based on James McBride’s 2013 novel, is largely a character study of Brown, a man willing to use any and all tools at his disposal in order to achieve his goal: the abolition of slavery in America. → Read More

The Endlessly Adaptable Archie Andrews

Inside the long and expensive business of American mythmaking. → Read More

The New Pope finally meets The Young Pope in a satiating, beatific finale

The final episode of The New Pope is great, and not just because it contains something like a third of the season’s plot. → Read More

Lenny Belardo finally returns in a breathtaking, miraculous episode of The New Pope

From its mid-season stretch of conniving, plotting, and despair, The New Pope has risen from the dead. For most of the episode, we follow a reawakened Lenny Belardo as he emerges from his year-long coma, readjusts to the world, and has some chill hang sessions with the doctor who had been treating him. It is absolutely delightful, and one of the best episodes of either Pope series. Where much of… → Read More

The New Pope might not be young, but he's definitely childish

The papacy is, generally speaking, seen as a leadership role. The pope gives guidance to the world’s Catholics, directing their moral and spiritual energies, and using their God-given wisdom to speak to the faithful—and to the rest of the Church. But in The Young Pope, and especially now in The New Pope, the papacy appears to be a rough equivalent to a Catholic’s bar mitzvah: a time for a young… → Read More

'The New Pope' Accepts That the Pope Is Actually a Glorified Influencer

In HBO's 'The Young Pope' followup, holiness is just another form of influence. How can you not stan? → Read More

Runaways’ final season hints at what the series could be

Marvel's Runaways has been at its best, and remains at its best, when it’s able to slow down and fully explore the intersection of teen drama and superhero show. → Read More

Avidly Reads Board Games excerpt: Pandemic Mobile saved Pandemic

Playing on the Pandemic app more closely resembles an experiment conducted with the rules of the game — it can act as a useful way to learn about the game → Read More

Ms. Monopoly Creates a World Where No One Wins

Games like this one attempt to have players reckon with social inequalities. But there’s a fine line between teaching and pandering. → Read More

Watch the new title sequence for the just-announced 6th season of Steven Universe

Check out the new title sequence for Steven Universe's sixth season, Steven Universe: Future. → Read More

'Ms. Monopoly' Is About Female Empowerment but Erases the Woman Who Invented Monopoly

A woman came up with the idea for 'Monopoly,' but a man took credit and profited from it. → Read More

How the 'Suitable For All Ages' Standard Leads to Censorship Worldwide

In a world where many movies and TV shows are available on demand, studios and streaming services still go to great lengths to accommodate government censorship—and citizens will go further to sneak past them. → Read More

How to make a great anime adaptation

First, get earnest. Second, get expressionist. Finally, get corny. → Read More

Why People Will Never Stop Asking If Magicians Use Camera Angles to Cheat

As long as we've had screens, magicians have used them to share their work, and audiences have questioned what they're seeing. → Read More