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mer Mar 13, 2022. 2 minute read
WWE’s Butch (FKA Pete Dunne): A Review
Last night’s SmackDown (re)introduced us to a fan favorite wrestler; he’s been with the company for years, held numerous titles, broke company records, and contributed to some of the most talked about moments throughout NXT’s black and gold era. He’s a fantastic performer in the ring and intimidating enough out…
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David Bixenspan Mar 11, 2022. 4 minute read
After AEW Revolution 2022, NXT’s Adam Cole is Officially Dead
When Shawn Michaels moved to Orlando to take an active role in WWE’s NXT developmental brand in early 2018, there was a noticeable shift in the style of the big matches. The first TakeOver special of the Michaels era was in New Orleans during WrestleMania weekend, and was headlined by…
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Natalie Weiner Mar 11, 2022. 2 minute read
Create a Women’s March Madness Pool, For Progress
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. Five years ago, I started writing about sports professionally, which…
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Dylan Roth Mar 10, 2022. 7 minute read
Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 12 “Species Ten-C” Review
For weeks, Star Trek: Discovery has been building towards the fateful first contact between the United Federation of Planets and the mysterious extragalactic beings they call Unknown Species 10-C. Now the moment has finally come, but are Captain Burnham and company ready for its Arrival? That’s right, this week’s episode,…
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TV/FILM
Joseph Anthony Montecillo Mar 9, 2022. 5 minute read
Bryan Danielson and Jon Moxley Are Done Compromising Their Vision of Pro Wrestling
Bryan Danielson has an uncompromising vision of professional wrestling. And why wouldn’t he? This is a man who has gone on record to say that a bloody pro wrestling match has brought him closer to sensing God’s presence than years of organized religion. “I’m not doing it to have the…
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WRESTLING
Brett Davis Mar 8, 2022. 4 minute read
QT Marshall’s Road to History at AEW Revolution
He’s a sensation. Since the moment he debuted, there has been an air of mystery around him. Even before he stepped in the ring, people were clamoring for his official debut. And despite not holding any major titles or having any big-name victories under his belt, his rise has felt…
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WRESTLING
mer Mar 7, 2022. 4 minute read
Down Team B.A.D Again
As we find ourselves four weeks away from the young, hip granddaddy of them all, the WrestleMania card is taking shape. Roman and Brock are unifying titles to take us right back to the horrifying days of 2016, alongside a match that no one really asked for in Charlotte vs…
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Colette Arrand Mar 4, 2022. 6 minute read
What Is a WWE Superstar? A Theory.
Yesterday, Vince McMahon did an interview on The Pat McAfee Show, hosted, as you might guess, by former NFL punter turned podcaster and WWE SmackDown color commentator Pat McAfee. While it probably would have been a good idea to—interviews with McMahon have tended to be rare, and are increasingly so…
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Imran Khan Mar 4, 2022. 1 minute read
Here’s Some Organizations to Help Ukrainians in Need
A senseless act of war last week put Ukrainians — rather, humans beings like you or me or anyone else in the world — in dire need of support. The invasion by Russian forces has displaced millions of Ukrainians from their homes and is costing many others their lives and…
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NEWS
Dylan Roth Mar 4, 2022. 8 minute read
‘The Batman’ Review: The World’s Greatest Detective
When Warner Bros. announced that they would be rebooting the Batman franchise once again to tell the story of a young Dark Knight at the beginning of his career, I was not excited by the prospect. The movie studio seems to have a very myopic view of the character, ignoring…
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TV/FILM
Natalie Weiner Mar 4, 2022. 8 minute read
The Limits Of Sports Metaphors
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. By now we are all familiar with the well-trodden narratives…
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Dylan Roth Mar 3, 2022. 8 minute read
Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 11 “Rosetta” Review
This week on Star Trek: Discovery, Michael Burnham gets bad vibes from an alien graveyard, Ruon Tarka kidnaps a respected stand-up comedian, and Keyla Detmer gets a traumatic backstory of her very own. “Rosetta” is a strong episode that inches us closer to the season’s climactic confrontation but loses points…
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TV/FILM
Steven Nguyen Scaife Mar 2, 2022. 6 minute read
Maybe Uncharted Movies Were a Bad Idea Actually
Common wisdom holds that an Uncharted movie should be obvious and impossible to screw up. Every year that passes without one is easy money left on the table, and many, many years have passed — we’ve reached the point where the fourth game and its spin-off have been remastered for…
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David Bixenspan Mar 1, 2022. 7 minute read
The Fever Dream That Was the First Six Weeks of WWF Shotgun Saturday Night
To most wrestling fans who would recognize it, Shotgun Saturday Night signifies the domestic version of the WWF’s first-run syndicated show that aired from 1997 to 1999. If you didn’t know it by that name, you may have seen it as Shotgun Challenge, Shotgun, WWF New York, 11 Alive, or, at different times, both the…
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Fūnk-é Joseph Mar 1, 2022. 3 minute read
Euphoria Season 2 Knows Exactly How to Break Your Heart
There are very few shows as melancholic as the second season of HBO’s Euphoria. It is a moody, tear-jerking cinematic collage that the internet cannot stop talking about (for good reason). From Zendaya’s impressive, intimate performances to the waves of Uncut Gems-esque shenanigans, this melodrama is a loveable mess unlike…
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Dylan Roth Feb 28, 2022. 7 minute read
‘Cyrano’ Review: Everything, Yet Naught
Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostrand’s 1897 French-language stage romance loosely based on a real-life warrior poet, has been adapted by Hollywood a number of times. Direct adaptations of the play have mostly been reserved for the French themselves, whose 1990 version starring Gérard Depardeiu is the gold standard. The rest…
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David Bixenspan Feb 25, 2022. 8 minute read
Did THAT MJF Promo Make You Uncomfortable? Good. It Was Supposed To.
On Wednesday night, at the AEW Dynamite and Rampage taping in Bridgeport, Connecticut, MJF did something different. “[I]n their hands, they’re holding rolls of quarters,” he said (transcription h/t CageMatch.net user Rocky7), describing his then-new football teammates he expected to become his new friends while in his tweens. “And all…
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WRESTLING
Ryan Stevens Feb 25, 2022. 5 minute read
In Yellowjackets, We’re All Stranded in the 90s
Yellowjackets is a show about being stranded. Across two time periods, one in 1996 and the other in modern day, the members of a girls’ high school soccer team are adrift and astray. Those that survived the ordeal of 26 years ago still carry their scars with them in the…
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mer Feb 25, 2022. 5 minute read
Bad Guys Do it Worse: Logan Paul Reveals Mania Potential
Elimination Chamber aired this past Saturday, coming to us live at noon Eastern from Saudia Arabia. There’s not much else for me to contribute to the conversation around WWE’s involvement in Saudi Arabia, as it’s pretty much all been covered. This was the first time Elimination Chamber aired from Saudi…
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Natalie Weiner Feb 25, 2022. 3 minute read
A Women’s Sports Bar Is Opening In Portland
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. When I Google “women’s sports bar” from my home in…
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