This story contains spoilers for the season finale of Gen V.
Throughout Gen V's first season, it felt like our superheroes were always playing catch-up. An evil prison experimented on Godolkin University students right under their noses—and it took until the season finale for our main characters to finally liberate their f*cked-up institution. By the time they get there, though, it's a little too late for any true salvation. Thanks to politician Victoria Neuman's escapades in the last episode, the superhero virus is already in the wind.
“Why do you speak of certain reversals—machinery connected wrong, for instance, as being ‘ass backwards’? I can’t understand that. Ass usually is backwards, right? You ought to be saying ‘ass forwards,’ if backwards is what you mean.”
“Uh,” sez Slothrop.
“This is only one of many American Mysteries,” Säure sighs, “I wish somebody could clear up for me. Not you, obviously.”
THE LIGHTNING-STRUCKLet’s say you’re struck by lightning. And you
13. Halloween: Resurrection (2002)If you’ve ever watched a horror movie and thought to yourself, “You know what this needs? Tyra Banks and Busta Rhymes,” then, boy, are you in luck. Adding a new age twist to the fictional town of Haddonfield, Resurrection sees Michael returning to his childhood home after an internet show begins filming there. The film is something of a novelty if you’re looking for an early 2000s take on the dark sides of the internet, though sadly it doesn’t end in Michael Myers becoming an influencer.
Hard Knocks season is upon us, folks. In celebration of the most-anticipated iteration in recent memory—thanks to this year's subject, the New York Jets—Esquire is assigning highly subjective grades to each episode. Follow along every Wednesday for reactions to the preseason adventures of Aaron Rodgers, Robert Saleh, and... Method Man? A+: Leslie NielsenHard Knocks continues to derive humor from an old classic: Many People on the Team Are Old, But Many of Them Are Not.
When the announcement arrived that Get Out and Us director Jordan Peele would be teaming up with Al Pacino to make a comic book-tinged series about vigilantes hunting down Nazis in Seventies New York, it appeared something exciting was coming to Amazon Prime Video. If done well Hunters looked like it had the potential to be a Tarantino-esque revenge tale which made a new kind of superhero figure of those standing up for the persecuted, revisiting the trauma and devastation suffered by the Jewish people during The Holocaust.