The Year of Shadow is upon us! What sort of festivities can we expect for a resident Edgehog? Also: Jean-Karlo salutes the Miiverse community and more in This Week in Games!
For someone hailing from a political family who took to part-time politics
Admit it: You’d also murder to help your kid’s tennis career.
This week, the Islamic Republic of Iran—a radical Shariah theocracy hellbent on the destruction of Israel and Saudi Arabia, among others—fired some 300 drones and Read More
[Editor’s note: This is a recap of Fallout episode two. The recap of episode three publishes April 12.] Now that is significantly more like it. Of the many ways Fallout’s second episode is an improvement on its first, the most important, by far, is tone. Make no mistake, Vault Dwellers: This is, at least for now, a pitch-black comedy with some dramatic elements, not, as “Maximus” tried very hard to suggest, something that would occasionally try to get genuinely grim and joyless as our...
Of course it begins with the bomb. Or, rather, a series of bombs. In the
Everyone loves a good reality-TV mean girl, but Hannah and Telly are too banal for their bad behavior to make good television.
The first episode of The Sympathizer felt, in many ways like a prologue. That’s doubled down in episode two, where the plot starts growing tendrils that won’t bloom for another few weeks and our major players are brought more firmly into focus. I said the series premiere had an air of “previously on” about it, and while the pacing of the scenes in episode two remains rapid, “Good Little Asian” lays down the groundwork for the next few hours of storytelling. First things first: Bon’s wife and...
Boy, is this ever Shōgun’s Mariko-sama episode. We begin with a flashback to her 14 years before the action of our story, wandering in the snow, heavy with child, and hellbent on self-destruction. Once she has been led into a tent to warm up, we learn that these attempts to escape her husband and end her life have formed a pattern for her. Here, she meets Father Martín for the first time. He christens her “Maria” and plops a rosary into her hand (“something to hold onto when she can’t talk”)....
The long shadow of the 1960s looms over “Thorn Tree,” a sprawling second novel by Brooklyn-based author Max Ludington. Set largely in Los Angeles in 2017, the book concerns two baby boomers dealing with the fallout from their countercultural pasts. It’s a novel of regrets and reckonings, traumas repressed and returning. Commentary on the allure of dangerous subcultures, combined with fleeting references to the Trump administration, suggests that the conflicts and divisions of the 1960s remain,...