Hollywood Medium Cemented Its Status As the Worst Show on Television Last Night Hollywood Medium is the worst show on television, and perhaps the most brazen. It is the TV equivalent of a man calling you to schedule a break-in, you saying, “Sounds good,” and still being surprised when all your shit’s gone. So much of this Read more ... deceptively cruel little experiment in exploitative prog...

Spine-Tingling Podcasts And The Endurance Of The Scary Story This non-visual medium might be the best way to feel chills -- if you dare.

The 8 Types of Expository Beards Since movies, television shows, and comics are visual mediums, sometimes you need a visual cue to a character’s identity or motivations. And although you can use costumes or props for this purpose, there’s no better storytelling device than facia Read more ... l hair.

Why I'm shifting my entire personal blog to Medium Medium is better for blogging than ever, and I'm going all in.

Everything Wrong With The Dark Knight—and Video Essays—in One ClickHole Parody I’ve spent a lot of time watching video essays, and while I still really like them—after all, it makes sense to use a visual medium to dissect work done in a visual medium—I’ve had to wade through a lot of terrible ones to find the good ones. Read more ... This new parody...

10 Examples of Comics Art So Good, They Don't Need Words to Tell a Story Comics are a visual medium—but most comics still rely heavily on narration and dialogue. Once in a while, though, a series, a single issue, or even one great scene in a comic will forgo text, or keep it at a minimum, to tell a gorgeous story with j Read more ... ust images. Here are 10 pieces of comic art that don’t need words to convey a story.

ABC Family’s new reality show is about a college-aged medium. Yup, we’ll watch that. Your TV schedule is already probably pretty full right now, but can you squeeze in one more? ABC Family is launching a brand new, unscripted television program about a girl named Monica. She's just your regular college junior, except for the fact tha Read more ... t she's a medium and can talk to the dead. Monica,…

The magic of “Wolf Hall”: The exquisite (and chilling) details that bring history to life From its masterful acting all the way down to its period-perfect approach to hats and heads, "Wolf Hall" nails it

How to Google Something You Don't Know How to Describe As the web becomes a more visual medium, there are finally tools for searching by image.

A race to the finish in the age of edge We live in the age of edge, an age in which edginess is the grail for almost everything: popular literature, visual arts, music, sports (think Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman), journalism and especially television. In fact, just about the only med Read more ... ium in which it isn't the standard is the movies,…