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For The First Time Again (2026)
Beneath its lush melodies and vintage sound, For The First Time Again is an album about learning how to live in full color again after spending too long in the dark. And, it’s also pretty awesome.
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The Hit List (1990)
A covers album that still feels like Joan Jett.
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The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (March 1963)
The Amazing Spider-Man #1 hits the ground running, introducing Peter Parker, J. Jonah Jameson, the Daily Bugle, and a formula that would define Marvel for decades.
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Your Friends & Neighbors Season 2 – Final Thoughts
Season two of Your Friends & Neighbors takes an ambitious swing, juggling wealth, crime, aging, family drama, and moral decay.
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The Four Seasons Season 2 – Final Thoughts
Funny, warm, and surprisingly insightful, season two of The Four Seasons explores friendship, grief, and the comfort of being around people who knew you before life became complicated.
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The Twilight Zone “The Fever” (1960)
A man becomes obsessed with a slot machine he believes is speaking to him.
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Smash My Guitar (2026)
Smash My Guitar turns modern dating, bad decisions, and romantic frustration into sharp, hook-filled pop-punk songs that are as witty as they are relatable.
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Strange Tales #106 (March 1963)
The story may not be great, but Strange Tales #106 is one of the clearest signs yet that Marvel finally understands how to build a superhero comic.
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Hex (2024)
Strangely unique without being alienating, Hex constantly drifts toward abstraction while holding onto enough groove and melody to keep you completely engaged.
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Paddleton (2019)
A quiet and deeply human story about friendship, vulnerability, and the ways people change each other.
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It’s All Happening (2026)
A quiet, reflective album that values emotional honesty over big gestures.
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Tales to Astonish #41 (March 1963)
An interdimensional alien warlord, an insect revolution, and a death ray shouldn’t work, but Don Heck’s arrival finally makes Ant-Man feel like a superhero.
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A Bit of What You Fancy (1990)
A throwback to mid-’70s roots rock — gritty, bluesy, and built to have a good time.
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Big Mistakes Season 1 – First Look
Big Mistakes is a dark comedy crime series about two siblings whose increasingly bad decisions spiral into chaos. Funny performances and an endearing cast make it a fun ride.
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Journey Into Mystery #89 (February 1963)
Journey Into Mystery #89 isn’t much of a Thor story—it’s a Donald Blake story, and a reminder that the mortal half of the character still matters.
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Spider-Noir Season 1 – First Look
Spider-Noir feels like a mash-up of classic noir films, Universal monster movies, Dick Tracy on acid, and the rapid-fire banter of His Girl Friday. It pulls all of that together without becoming cynical, self-aware, or outright parody because it commits to its weirdness.
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The Twilight Zone “The Hitch-Hiker” (1960)
A woman experiences paranoia and fear as she sees the same man hitchhiking along the highway over and over.
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The Four Seasons Season 2 – First Look
The first two episodes of season two show The Four Seasons continuing its blend of comedy, heart, and relatable drama through a group of friends who genuinely love each other, but would rather do almost anything than say what they’re actually thinking.
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Fearless Movement (2024)
Fearless Movement by Kamasi Washington is an expansive journey through culture, history, family, spirituality, and identity. It feels like a celebration, a warning, and a love letter to the music that inspires it.
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Tales to Astonish #40 (February 1963)
Hank Pym is every type of hero at once — scientist, inventor, detective, and superhero — a sign that Marvel’s ideas are beginning to outpace its roster.
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Hacks Series Finale – Final Thoughts
Hacks started as a sharp comedy about generational conflict and Hollywood. It ended as a surprisingly moving story about two flawed people making each other better.
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That Delicious Vice (2024)
An eccentric, cinematic album that feels like the soundtrack to a surreal desert western after the end of the world filtered through punk, garage rock, surf, and Latin American influences.
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Rootless Cosmopolitans (1990)
An experimental album that constantly shifts direction — sometimes landing, sometimes just moving.
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30 Minutes to Get Back: Episode 7
Part 2 of Get Back opens with a failed reconciliation and the band trying to work as a trio.
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More Forever (2026)
Chunky riffs, fast drums, and songs that build quietly before exploding — More Forever sits right on the edge of hard rock and emo.
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Strange Tales #105 (Feb 1963)
The plot for Strange Tales #105 may not be especially compelling, but the direction it points Marvel toward absolutely is.
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Reflections of a Shadow (1990)
Fast, precise, and packed with skill from start to finish.
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Fantastic Four #11 (Feb 1963)
Fantastic Four #11 feels like a pause in the momentum — a recap issue filled with celebrity antics and the absurdity of the Impossible Man. But it also shows that the Fantastic Four is becoming Marvel’s entire personality.
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Marty, Life Is Short (2026)
The Netflix Martin Short documentary doesn’t really reveal some hidden side of him. Instead, it reinforces the feeling that one of the most absurd entertainers of the last fifty years might also be one of the warmest.
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Insano (2024)
A sprawling, experimental album that works best when the club beats fade and Kid Cudi lets the emotional core show through.
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The Incredible Hulk #5 (Feb 1963)
For the Hulk, anthology storytelling and superhero storytelling still feel like they’re fighting for dominance.
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The Twilight Zone “I Shot an Arrow into the Air” (1960)
A Twilight Zone survival tale about fear, desperation, and the fragile nature of civilization.
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Series Finale – Final Thoughts
The end of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and what it means to have someone’s voice, humor, and perspective present for almost 30 years of your life.
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Retcon (2026)
A rock album that feels rooted in 90s grunge and alternative, but with newer indie textures and reflective songwriting.
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Fear of a Punk Planet (1990)
Fast, funny, low-budget punk that doesn’t appear to take anything seriously.
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Tales to Astonish #39 (Jan 1963)
Plot by Stan Lee – Script by Larry Lieber – Pencils by Jack Kirby – Inks by Dick Ayers – Letters by Art Simek Okay, I admit it. This should not work. Every time Marvel tries to force one of its superheroes back into the world of atomic-age monster anthologies, the results are usually not…
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Look To The East, Look To The West (2024)
A gentle indie pop album about learning how to keep living alongside grief with music that slowly blooms emotionally instead of overwhelming you immediately.
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Danger in the Past (1990)
Simple, well-crafted songs that feel slightly off-center in a way that keeps them interesting.
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Strange Tales #104 (Jan 1963)
Marvel introduces paste — the supreme weapon! More importantly, it starts to understand the value of recurring lower-stakes villains and building a real rogues gallery.
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Zero Effect (1998)
Directed by Jake Kasdan – Starring Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Kim Dickens, Ryan O’Neal An eccentric private detective is pulled into a blackmail case that slowly forces him out of the isolated world he’s built around himself. Zero Effect is a pretty effective modern update of a noir detective story, built around a really strong…
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Yeah Yeah Yeah (2026)
A hook-filled retro rock album that blends brit-pop swagger, Stones-style riffs, and uplifting singalong choruses.
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Journey Into Mystery #88 (Jan 1963)
Loki and Asgard return, steering Thor back toward the mythic fantasy storytelling where the series feels most alive.
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The Twilight Zone “Third from the Sun” (1960)
A suspenseful Cold War thriller with one of the show’s earliest great twist endings.
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The Punisher: One Last Kill (2026)
The Punisher: One Last Kill plays like a Punisher video game interrupted by a psychological breakdown.
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The Word as Law (1990)
This is heavy music that feels constructed, not just aggressive.
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Fantastic Four #10 (Jan 1963)
Fantastic Four #10 is absurd on its face — but it also feels like the moment Marvel’s First Family mythology really starts to come together.
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Attitude Adjustment (2026)
An album that sounds like a band who understands how to balance pop with an edge and delivers a bunch of hook filled tracks.
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Trouble (1990)
Classic, melodic metal with a strong rock backbone.
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Journey Into Mystery #87 (Dec 1962)
The cold war plot shrinks Thor while Kirby’s art keeps expanding him.
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Rooster Season 1 – Final Thoughts
Rooster understands that growing and learning to become the best version of yourself never stops. And somehow this show turns that idea into one of the funniest and most heartfelt new comedies in years.
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