Late to the Game: Night in the Woods

April 1, 2018 Mary

One of my favorite things of 2017 was Night in the Woods, a game developed by Infinite Fall and Secret Lab. I listed it as my absolute top thing of 2017 in our year in review episode, but I didn’t feel like I said enough about it. I recently replayed the game, along with a patch (the “Weird Autumn” expansion) that turns the game into a director’s cut of sorts, and knew that more attention needed to be paid to this charming game.

ANTM Recap C24/E12: Beauty is a Comeback

March 30, 2018 Susan

Forget March Madness. This is the only Final Four that matters. We're down to Rio, Khrystyana, Kyla, and Shanice. Let's do this.

'The Joel McHale Show' is 'The Soup' Reboot We Deserve

March 24, 2018 Kelli

Remember *The Soup?*

Of course you do. Perhaps the only good thing to ever come out of the E! network, *The Soup* was a weekly clip show hosted by everyone’s favorite tall, handsome asshole: Joel McHale.

Each episode, McHale presented a variety of clips from the week in bad TV, covering everything from morning news segments to the latest episode of The Bachelor, season -insert number from 5 to 19 here-. The Soup ran for 12 seasons, from 2004 to 2015, and then E! cancelled it, completing their transformation into the fully garbage network they always aspired to be.

If you’re like me, you watched The Soup enough that you can probably still hear the sound bites from the show’s recurring segments in your head (sooooo meaty, etc). Luckily, The Joel McHale Show on Netflix is just like The Soup, except it’s not on network television anymore so Joel and all of his guests can curse as much as they want to. So far, some of the complaints about this show have been that it’s too much of the same (see Paste’s review, ‘The Joel McHale Show Suffers from Its Insistence on Formula’), but I’m here to argue that its willingness to stay the same is exactly what makes it so damn enjoyable.