Shazam!
Shazam! is Big with superpowers, and it knows it. A foster kid named Billy Batson gets chosen by an ancient wizard and can turn into a grown man in a cape by saying a magic word, and the film mines…
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Justice League (2017)
Justice League is a Frankenstein production: Zack Snyder left after a family tragedy, Joss Whedon took over, reshot a huge chunk on a rushed schedule, and the studio demanded a two hour runtime. You can see the seams everywhere. Henry…
Wonder Woman
For a stretch in the middle, Wonder Woman is the best film DC produced in its entire connected universe era. Gal Gadot and Chris Pine carry a charming stranger abroad story to the front lines of World War I, the…
Suicide Squad
The story behind this movie is better known than its plot: Warner Bros panicked after Batman v Superman got shredded, hired a trailer company to recut a finished film, and shipped whatever survived. You can feel the scissors in every…
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
The movie that broke the fanbase in half. Batman v Superman wants to be a meditation on power, fear, and godhood, and about half of it is genuinely fascinating: Ben Affleck’s older, crueler Batman is one of the best screen…
Man of Steel
Zack Snyder rebuilt Superman from the ground up, and the results still split people more than a decade later. Henry Cavill plays Clark Kent as a drifter who has spent his whole life hiding what he can do, and the…
Angel
The Buffy spin off moved the vampire with a soul to Los Angeles and quietly became a different, better show than most people remember. Where Buffy was about surviving growing up, Angel is about a grown man trying to atone for a century of atrocities and learning that redemption is not a finish line but a job. Angel Investigations, a detective agency that helps the helpless, gives the series a noir spine Buffy never had, and the early case of the week years use the city's neon rot far better than most LA dramas.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Joss Whedon's high school horror riff did something television had not managed before: it took the dumbest possible premise, a cheerleader kills vampires, and used it as scaffolding for the most literate genre drama of its era. Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale, a town built on a Hellmouth, and over seven seasons the show treats every monster as a metaphor for something real: first love that literally leaves a scar, the person you sleep with turning into a monster after, a mother's death that no slayer strength can fix. The gimmick was monsters, the subject was growing up.
Doctor Odyssey
Ryan Murphy put Joshua Jackson on a cruise ship as Dr. Max Bankman, the new on board physician for the luxury liner The Odyssey, with Phillipa Soo and Sean Teale as his medical team, and the result is the most gloriously unhinged network drama of the season. Every week brings a themed cruise, singles week, plastic surgery week, a Halloween voyage, and every week the ship's compliment of medical catastrophes escalates from implausible to frankly supernatural. There is a throuple. There are multiple mass casualty events. The season ends on a twist about the nature of reality itself that made national news.
Fear Factor
Joe Rogan hosting the reality show that turned human dignity into an obstacle course: eat the blended rats, hang from the helicopter, swim with the eels. It was the guilty pleasure king of early 2000s Monday nights, equal parts gross…