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A.A. Dowd,
Katie Rife,
Allison Shoemaker,
Lawrence Garcia,
and 9 moreJust about everyone agrees that 1999 was a great year for movies. We here at The A.V. Club do not beg to differ: We…
Caroline Siede
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Contributor, The A.V. Club. Caroline Siede is a pop culture critic in Chicago, where the cold never bothers her anyway. Her interests include superhero movies, feminist theory, and Jane Austen novels.
Aug 10
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Stargirl’s impressive debut season has had two big things going for it: A sense of surprise and a welcome commitment…
Aug 9
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The best episodes of The Umbrella Academy tend to feature the Hargreeves saying “yes and” rather than “no but.” It’s…
Aug 8
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Though “743” is the penultimate episode of the season, in many ways it feels like the climax. It seems to wrap up…
Aug 7
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A lot of my praise for this season of The Umbrella Academy has come with the caveat that I just have to have faith…
Aug 6
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The Umbrella Academy isn’t particularly great at plot. For instance, “Öga For Öga” is a pointless runaround story…
Aug 5
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Two episodes in a row where The Umbrella Academy’s characters actually sit down and have a full conversation? Be…
Aug 4
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“Hell yeah, family meeting!” You took the words right out of my mouth, Diego. Halfway through season two someone…
Aug 3
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After an early test screening of The Little Mermaid, Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg had one big…
Aug 3
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More so than any other live action superhero series I’ve ever seen, the opening of “Stars & S.T.R.I.P.E. Part One”…
Aug 3
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“That’s the thing about the Commission, isn’t it? Some things just don’t make sense, until they do.”
Aug 2
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“The Swedish Job” takes on a tall order. It wants to move the show’s central apocalypse story forward, deliver some…
Aug 1
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The Commission has never been my favorite element of The Umbrella Academy. Though Cha-Cha and especially Hazel had…
Jul 31
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The first season of The Umbrella Academy had a lot going for it: Heaps of style, an engaging cast, and some…
Jul 31
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If there’s one thing I took away from my four years at theater school, it’s that plays are meant to be seen, not…
Jul 27
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The problem with airing an episode as momentous as “Brainwave Jr.” is that you have to figure out how to follow it…
Jul 24
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Netflix’s much-beloved 2018 “Summer Of Love” lineup came with one major misfire: Vince Marcello’s regressive,…
Jul 20
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There are so many reveals in “Brainwave Jr.” it’s hard to know where to begin. Henry Jr. is Starman’s nephew?…
Jul 17
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It took Amy Heckerling a while to realize she’d written an Emma homage. Her TV pilot script centered on a rich,…
Jul 13
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So far, Stargirl has sorted its characters into neat categories: The bullies are the bad guys and the underdogs are…