Eric Thurm

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Should You Watch Raised By Wolves? A Prospective Viewer's Guide

Do you miss classic sci-fi TV, with its blend of heady ideas and almost laughable production value? Do you wish you could still roll out of bed on a Saturday and watch endless episodes of Farscape...

Did Bill Nighy Shtup His Ditto in Detective Pikachu?

I really, truly cannot stress enough how excited I was for Detective Pikachu. The first trailer was released just days after I’d had major surgery, and it sent me into a giddy haze. I immediate...

Haruhi Suzumiya and the Tragedy of Entertainment

At first glance, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya appears rather whimsical. The show, which originally aired in 2006 and 2009 and is based on a popular series of light novels, follows totally...

Evangelion's Long Shots Hold Its Audience Hostage

For a show about angst-ridden, volatile teenagers piloting enormous cyborgs through a series of cataclysmic battles, Neon Genesis Evangelion is remarkably calm. Sure, the series occasionally er...

Jumanji 4 is Absolutely Going to Be Fortnite

In a world of unlikely franchises, the success of Jumanji stands out as especially bizarre. The original children’s book about animals escaping from a board game was first adapted into a ’90s m...

How to Make Better Reboots With The Help of Friedrich Nietzsche

Why do we reboot popular media? Of course, there’s a financial motivation — this thing did well, so we’ll try it again, and wring millions of dollars out of consumers’ nostalgia for Batman or wha...