Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday.
This week’s question: What’s your favorite puppet character on TV of all time? Why?
Allison Keene (@KeeneTV), Paste Magazine
Given my lifelong love of Henson productions, most especially the Muppets (and all related movies), it’s no surprise that I’ve become fully obsessed with “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.” But to pick a favorite puppet? It’s nearly impossible. I have to pick two. Ok, three. It’s important that they’re all represented!
For one: Deet, a Gelfling. The heart and soul of the series, so sweet, so cute. One of the series’ writers revealed recently that Deet is based off of the way his girlfriend talks about horses. It fits; Deet is pure goodness and joy, but she’s also strong and brave. Two: Hup, the...
This week’s question: What’s your favorite puppet character on TV of all time? Why?
Allison Keene (@KeeneTV), Paste Magazine
Given my lifelong love of Henson productions, most especially the Muppets (and all related movies), it’s no surprise that I’ve become fully obsessed with “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.” But to pick a favorite puppet? It’s nearly impossible. I have to pick two. Ok, three. It’s important that they’re all represented!
For one: Deet, a Gelfling. The heart and soul of the series, so sweet, so cute. One of the series’ writers revealed recently that Deet is based off of the way his girlfriend talks about horses. It fits; Deet is pure goodness and joy, but she’s also strong and brave. Two: Hup, the...
- 9/4/2019
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday.
This week’s question: Who is an underrated TV superhero that deserves more respect/attention? (Old and current shows are fair game.)
Allison Keene (@KeeneTV), Collider
This is tough because my outlet puts a premium on superheroes, so really none are overlooked as far as we’re concerned. However, I haven’t seen as much general love for “Black Lightning” as the show deserves. Maybe people are burned out by the deluge of Dctv, much of which is past its prime, though others are exceptionally innovative and increasingly great (“Legends of Tomorrow”). But “Black Lightning” provides something that we aren’t seeing elsewhere in superhero series. For one thing, Black Lightning himself, Jefferson Pierce, is older than all the current supers on TV — the show starts with him coming out of retirement,...
This week’s question: Who is an underrated TV superhero that deserves more respect/attention? (Old and current shows are fair game.)
Allison Keene (@KeeneTV), Collider
This is tough because my outlet puts a premium on superheroes, so really none are overlooked as far as we’re concerned. However, I haven’t seen as much general love for “Black Lightning” as the show deserves. Maybe people are burned out by the deluge of Dctv, much of which is past its prime, though others are exceptionally innovative and increasingly great (“Legends of Tomorrow”). But “Black Lightning” provides something that we aren’t seeing elsewhere in superhero series. For one thing, Black Lightning himself, Jefferson Pierce, is older than all the current supers on TV — the show starts with him coming out of retirement,...
- 7/17/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
There’s no rule that says that you have to go see Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi with the Fandango gift cards we’re giving away on The A.V. Club this weekend. You could go see Coco, which is still going strong in its fourth week—or at least it was, until The Last Jedi came out—or marvel at James Franco’s Tommy…
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- 12/15/2017
- by Katie Rife
- avclub.com
For the final Film Club of 2017, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff writer Ignatiy Vishnevetsky are discussing what is sure to be the biggest film of the year, Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Although it’s the middle chapter of the sequel trilogy, The Last Jedi avoids being a retread of The Empire Strikes Back,…
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- 12/14/2017
- by Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Our A.V. Club Field Guide To Parenting is designed to guide you toward the best kids’ books, shows, movies, and music, just like we do with The A.V. Club for adults. Every month or so, we feature a new subject with a few essential pop culture takes parents should know, saving you from the mountains of kids’ dreck out…
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- 12/14/2017
- by Gwen Ihnat and Kyle Ryan
- avclub.com
At this year’s Riot Fest in Chicago, The A.V. Club asked bands to play a game we call Punk Or Not Punk, in which they rated random things on an arbitrary, dichotomic scale. This round, Say Anything’s Max Bemis joins us to rate Pbr and Say Anything (the movie) and tells us about the huge crush he had on Charlie Sheen’s…
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- 12/8/2017
- by Baraka Kaseko and Marah Eakin
- avclub.com
On the Feral podcast Doughboys, Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger review chain restaurants across the country. The A.V. Club sat down with the pair at this year’s Now Hear This podcast festival to talk about food. Since we love fast food sauce, and they’ve eaten at the majority of fast food restaurants in the country, we…
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- 12/7/2017
- by Baraka Kaseko and Marah Eakin
- avclub.com
Alex McLevy: Justice League has been out for a couple of weeks now, and to say opinions are mixed would be gentle. Some people love it, some hate it, but most, like we here at The A.V. Club, just think, “Meh.” To be fair, the film had an uphill battle. Its primary architect had to withdraw well before it was done, due…
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- 12/1/2017
- by Alex McLevy and A.A. Dowd
- avclub.com
It’s the time of year to make a list of all the loved ones you need to buy presents for, then go about the arduous task of trying to figure out what they’ll like. The A.V. Club is here with good—nay, great—gifts for the pop culture lover in your life. We have books, comics, board games, movie and TV paraphernalia, and…
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- 11/30/2017
- by Caitlin PenzeyMoog, A.A. Dowd, Alex McLevy, Clayton Purdom, Danette Chavez, Erik Adams, Katie Rife, Laura M. Browning, Marah Eakin, Oliver Sava, and Gwen Ihnat
- avclub.com
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