[Link] Summer 2018 three-episode check-in
I’m keeping up with more shows than usual this season (which is to say, more than three); and while it’s something of a weak season overall, there are a few attention-grabbers out there.
Vrai Kaiser
I'm Vrai Kaiser, writer by profession and analytic nerd for the love of the game. I've been published in online magazine The Alligator, and am currently working to get my first novel published. Here you'll find updates on my work, as well as pop culture analysis, recaps, and reviews. Commentary and requests are always welcome.
Trash & Treasures: Best Worst Movie
Fun fact: this is still totally enjoyable if you haven’t seen Troll 2.
Five Questions for the Vampire Chronicles TV Series
The saga of the Vampire Chronicles’ tv series has had almost as many installments as the series it’s based on. The movie rights were with Universal Studios, tentatively (as of 2014) to be adapted by Josh Boone. Then that fell through for unknown reasons (Anne Rice’s Facebook page […]
Vrai Watches Den-noh Coil (Part 1)
I took part in a watchalong for a show I’d never even heard of–an adolescent-friendly series about VR, the importance of pets, and the difficulty of coping with grief when the dead leave technological footprints behind. It turned out to be pretty impressive, but daaaaamn is it slow […]
Trash & Treasures: The Sweatbox
How is it that every time Disney tries to bury something it thinks will hurt its reputation, it manages to make itself look 10000x worse in the process?
[Link] Summer 2018 Premiere Digest
All the season’s premieres, all in one place! Complete with content warnings for your reading pleasure. I need a nap now.
Summer 2018 Premieres (Part 2)
This is it, we’ve reached the end. Pick your shows and collect your winnings–it wasn’t exactly a huge crop of winners in the back half here.
Drunk Book Club: Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
This is in the “hey, wanna get really discouraged about the state of the publishing industry” class of books.
Summer 2018 Premieres (Part 1)
It’s that time again! When my schedule completely blanks out except for an endless sea of anime and also some Steven Universe, because Cartoon Network keeps conspiring to align those premieres. The deluge is half over, so here’s what we’ve got so far: BANANA FISH and also some […]
[Link] Feminist anime recommendations of Spring 2018
Life Stuff meant I had to drop most of the weekly shows I was following this season, even the ones I was tentatively enjoying like Last Period, Golden Kamuy, and Megalobox. But I did manage to drag myself through to having thoughts about a couple.
Fashionable Tinfoil Accessories 