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: 9.6: Bobby Driver
This week’s episode of Bob’s Burgers season 9 highlighted Edith Cranwrinkle, who’s been a minor characters for years. The episode showed a little more of Edith’s perspective without taking any big swings in terms of...
Culture of Pop
Riverdale Season 3 Review: 3.4: The Midnight Club
Photo: Katie Yu/The CW This week Riverdale season 3 did a flashback episode that took place mostly in the 90s. The result was the first great episode of the show since season one. The episode...
Television
Supergirl Season 4 Review: 4.4: Ahimsa
This week’s episode of Supergirl season 4 didn’t try to humanize bigots and I guess that’s the bar now. This was a boring and completely inoffensive episode of television. The most interesting plotline of the...
Culture of Pop
Bob’s Burgers Season 9 Review: 9.5: Live and Let Fly
This week’s episode of Bob’s Burgers season 9 was a satisfying episode where everything tied together. Bob Belcher got caught up in a paper airplane contest to win a free washing machine, meanwhile the kids...
Television
The Flash Season 5 Review: 5.4: News Flash
The Flash season 5 is great whenever it’s focused on being a family show. That was the case in this week’s very fun episode. “News Flash” had a nice Smallville feel to it. A blogger...
Television
Supergirl Season 4 Review: 4.3: Man of Steel
The first two episodes of Supergirl season 4 contained some harmful messages. But, nothing could’ve prepared me for this week’s episode. “Man of Steel” was an entire episode from the perspective of Ben Lockwood (Sam...
Movies
'Mid90s' Is Pretty Dope
Mid90s (A24) Mid90s Growing up in the 90s was a blast because technology didn’t fully sink its teeth into our minds yet. We were outside doing our thing and actually talking to each other without...
Movies
'Halloween (2018)' Is A Solid Throwback Slasher
Halloween (2018) In the last four decades, Michael Myers has been stewing in a rehabilitation center, waiting for the evil to take the wheel again. Clearing out all the mediocre Halloween sequels, this direct sequel...
Culture of Pop
Riverdale Season 3 Review: 3.3: As Above, So Below
This week on Riverdale season 3, Archie Andrews was forced into an fight club for underage boys, Jughead Jones joined the Griffins & Gargoyles death cult, and Veronica Lodge opened her secret speakeasy. Every moment...
Culture of Pop
The Flash Season 5 Review: 5.3: The Death of Vibe
The title “The Death of Vibe” sums up why this week’s episode of The Flash season 5 was so frustrating. I’m not sure what drama could come out of a fake death for Cisco Ramon....
