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
Riverdale Season 2 Review: 2.21: Judgment Night
The best thing about the penultimate episode of Riverdale season 2 is that it had a consistent tone. But, the big reveals and emotional beats it tried to hit fell completely flat. The most notable...
Television
The Flash Season 4 Review: 4.21: Harry and the Harrisons
This week on The Flash season 4 the team worked with Amunet Black. This meant busting out all the working-with-a-villain cliches. One major problem with The Flash is that they always choose the wrong villains...
Television
iZombie Season 4 Review: 4.10: Yipee Ki Brain, Motherscratcher!
This week’s episode of iZombie season 4 was an uneven and unnecessarily confusing episode. The best scene was a viscerally horrifying turn in the storyline between Angus McDonough and Blaine DeBeers. Angus lured Blaine’s abusive...
Television
Supergirl Season 3 Review: 3.17: Trinity
It’s unsurprising that Supergirl season 3 turned in a dull episode this week while heading towards its conclusion. The CW’s DC shows often fall into this pattern. They throw in an episode towards the end...
Television
Silicon Valley Season 5 Review: 5.7: Initial Coin Offering
Most of Silicon Valley season 5 felt like filler. So, it’s unsurprising that the penultimate episode packed in a lot of plot. Richard Hendricks made a few big decisions abruptly. I wish some of these...
Television
Bob’s Burgers Season 8 Review: 8.17: Boywatch
Earlier in Bob’s Burgers season 8, Tina Belcher confidently led her class through a dangerous wilderness exercise. This week the show did a complete 180 when Tina joined the Junior Lifeguards and obliviously messed up...
Television
Gotham Season 4 Review: 4.20: That Old Corpse
This week’s episode of Gotham season 4 suffered from how ambitious it was. It was very fun. But, I could see what a big idea the writers were going for. And, unfortunately, it fell flat...
Television
Riverdale Season 2 Review: 2.20: Shadow of a Doubt
This week’s episode of Riverdale season 2 was a serviceable entry of what this show has become. Veronica Lodge being a mafia princess and aspiring casino owner who loves ilucki casino games is a departure...
Movies
'Avengers Infinity War' is a Remarkable Blockbuster
Chris Evans in Avengers Infinity War (Marvel Studios) Avengers Infinity War Avengers Infinity War is a culmination of a decade’s worth of films in the MCU, and it would be very difficult, and kind of...
Television
The Flash Season 4 Review: 4.20: Therefore She Is
Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW This week The Flash season 4 explored the relationship between Clifford DeVoe and Marlize DeVoe through flashbacks. Unfortunately, the portrayal of their marriage was confusing and upsetting. When The Flash season...
