Category: Culture of Pop
This is Hardwood and Hollywood's section for all things having to do with pop culture - movies, TV, music, interviews with celebrities, both traditional and modern, and comic books. Keep your eyes on our words as we keep our fingers on the pulse of pop culture!
Culture of Pop
Bob’s Burgers Season 9 Review: 9.17: What About Blob?
This week Bob’s Burgers season 9 delivered an enjoyable episode centered on Gene Belcher. He desperately tried to save a blob of plankton that a yacht club owner wanted to bleach. Gene was feeling down...
Culture of Pop
Riverdale Season 3 Review: 3.15: American Dreams
This week on Riverdale season 3, Archie Andrews and Jughead Jones tried to remove the “sacrifice mark” hanging over Archie’s head. Meanwhile, Gladys Jones bought Alice Cooper’s house. Archie confronted Hiram Lodge about the “kill...
Culture of Pop
The Flash Season 5 Review: 5.16: Failure is an Orphan
This week’s episode of The Flash involved a lot of everyone assuring Barry Allen he’s a great, inspiring person. This genre of episode is pretty much an automatic pass for me. The main conflict of...
Television
Bob’s Burgers Season 9 Review: 9.16: Roamin’ Bob-iday
Bob Belcher was first to take a day off on this week’s episode of Bob’s Burgers season 9. It was a better-than-average episode that featured two musical numbers. The episode opened with a few scenes...
Television
Supergirl Season 4 Review: 4.14: Stand and Deliver
What is there to say about a Supergirl episode where she works to stop an anti-fascist group while protecting a Nazi? They’ve completely lost me. This episode at least opened with Menagerie setting out to...
Movies
'Captain Marvel' Is Adequate But Not Marvelous
Captain Marvel (Marvel Studios) Captain Marvel At the end of Avengers: Infinity War , Nick Fury pages a superhero named Captain Marvel to come to the rescue when the snap happens and obliterates half the...
Culture of Pop
Gotham Season 5 Review: 5.9: The Trial of Jim Gordon
This week on Gotham season 5, someone shot Jim Gordon. As he recovered, he had hallucinations. Considering that hallucinations allow anything to happen, episode wasn’t as weird or as artistic as it could’ve been. Jim...
Culture of Pop
Riverdale Season 3 Review: 3.14: Fire Walk With Me
This week’s episode of Riverdale season 3 was more of the same. It didn’t have a strong central conceit, it just moved the season long arcs along a bit. Kurtz attempted to kill one of...
Culture of Pop
The Flash Season 5 Review: 5.15: King Shark vs. Gorilla Grodd
This week on The Flash season 5, King Shark and Gorilla Grodd both returned for a big old fight. They’re both cool characters, but the episode spent a lot of time on set up, science...
Culture of Pop
Supergirl Season 4 Review: 4.13: What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way?
This week on Supergirl season 4, Manchester Black and the Elite faced off against Kara Danvers and the Legion of Superheroes. On a basic level, this was a cool episode that kicked ass. The action...
