The Miami police showed up in force to respond to a disturbance at a downtown open-air mall on New Year’s Day after reports of teens brawling and setting off fireworks, ultimately arresting four individuals between the ages of 14 and 16. But with footage of the chaos and dozens of …
Read More »Aliens Are Out There — But They Probably Don't Care About Us
Advances in astronomy and science make it more clear by the day that, unexpectedly, the math is on the side of aliens. As late as the 1990s, scientists weren’t sure that there were planets anywhere else in our galaxy or in the universe beyond, but advances like the Kepler Space …
Read More »'Reservation Dogs' Recap: Acid Trip or Alien Encounter?
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs, “House Made of Bongs,” now streaming on Hulu. Earlier this season, Bear’s new friend Maximus showed him home movies from Maximus’ own teenage years, and it was hard to look at those images and not imagine a Seventies version …
Read More »'Strange Planet' Is an Amusing New Show From the Creator of 'Rick and Morty'
It’s not hard to understand why Dan Harmon would have been drawn to Nathan W. Pyle’s Strange Planet comics for his latest TV project. Harmon’s Community and Rick and Morty are beloved for the ways they experiment with genre, tone, and sheer self-awareness. But once you strip away the formal …
Read More »Netflix's 'My Dad the Bounty Hunter' Is an Afrofuturist Marvel
From Beyoncé’s Black Is King and the Hulu adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred to the Black Panther films, Black science fiction — what scholars have coined Black Speculative Thought or Afrofuturism — has seen a steady rise over the past few decades. The latest entry, Netflix’s new animated series My …
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