The best inside jokes in the history of television
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Television shows have often been filled with cliches, tropes and overt jokes written for a broad audience. Even the plotlines to some shows are so …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Television shows have often been filled with cliches, tropes and overt jokes written for a broad audience. Even the plotlines to some shows are so …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Pop culture started down a dark path in the early 2010s with the rise of shows like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead,…
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
Bruce Springsteen recorded “57 Channels and Nothin’ On” in 1992. We’ve made incredible — ahem — “progress” since. Thirty-two years later, there are over 100 …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
When the clock strikes midnight on April 5, Earth will be 39 years away from humanity’s first official contact with an alien race — at …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
I first watched the original Sex and the City TV series in my late teens (my older sister handing down her DVD box set like …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The thing about apocalypses is that they happen to everyone, and anything that happens to everyone all at once really freaks us out. I suspect …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
There’s a viral video going around this week featuring British actor Joseph Quinn, who has risen to international acclaim this summer thanks to his portrayal …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staf
We’re officially stepping into the fall season, which means that the last of the summer shows are on their way out (so long, “Hannibal.” You …
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