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!
Television
Bob’s Burgers Season 8 Review: 8.20: Mission Impos-slug-ble
This week’s episode of Bob’s Burgers season 8 revealed Louise Belcher’s interest in Japanese trading cards. Media parodied Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh a lot over the past twenty years. Fortunately, this episode used Louise’s hobby as...
Television
Gotham Season 4 Review: 4.22: No Man’s Land
The Gotham season 4 finale felt more like an extended trailer for next season than its own episode. The busy finale had some fun moments but quickly lost track of just about everyone’s motivations. The...
Television
Riverdale Season 2 Review: 2.22: Brave New World
Photo: Dean Buscher/The CW What is there to say about the Riverdale season 2 finale? It’s been an exhausting season. The finale mostly hammered home how meaningless everything really is. After a week of milking...
Television
The Flash Season 4 Review: 4.22: Think Fast
Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW The Flash season 4 got incrementally closer to its end game this week in what felt like a mostly unnecessary episode. Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow convinced Barry Allen to let...
Television
iZombie Season 4 Review: 4.11: Insane in the Germ Brain
Photo Credit: Bettina Strauss/The CW This week’s episode of iZombie season 4 centered on the brutal murder of a drag queen. I cringed at the premise and, unfortunately, the episode hit every beat that I...
Television
Supergirl Season 3: 3.18: Shelter from the Storm
This week’s episode of Supergirl season 3 made a compelling case for Kara Danvers being a villain. All of her dialogue was bone-chilling. Early on, James Olsen tried to convince Lena Luthor to tell Supergirl...
Television
Bob’s Burgers Season 8 Review: 8.18: Mo Mommy Mo Problems
The Bob’s Burgers season 8 Mother’s Day episode was a perfect piece of farce. Linda Belcher convinced everyone to pose as a wealthy family so they can get free food from open houses. This led...
Culture of Pop
Silicon Valley Season 5 Review: 5.8: Fifty-One Percent
The Silicon Valley season 5 finale brought everything together. Disparate threads came together so nicely that it’s tempting to retroactively feel more forgiving about the season as a whole. Laurie Bream’s partnership with Yao ended...
Television
Bob’s Burgers Season 8 Review: 8.18: As I Walk Through the Alley of the Shadow of Ramps
Bob’s Burgers season 8 has been doing a phenomenal job with plots about childhood that feel real and specific. This week was about Louise Belcher feeling self-conscious that she still doesn’t know how to ride...
Comic Books
Gotham Season 4 Review: 4.21: One Bad Day
The penultimate episode of Gotham season 4 was an enjoyable but fairly standard episode. It could’ve used more fun touches to make it stand out. The best scene was between Jim Gordon and Ed Nygma....
