Pop Culture

Episode Analysis Interview With the Vampire: "Is My Very Nature That of the Devil"

Episode three of Interview With the Vampire brings strong story highlights and reveals the real life madam Louis is based on.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis She-Hulk: Whose Show is This?

The final episode of She-Hulk sadly reveals the many ways the show failed to live up to its potential.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis Interview With the Vampire: "...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self"

AMC's Interview With the Vampire's second episode continues to bring quality storytelling along with an excuse to talk about how to get rid of a body.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis She-Hulk: Ribbit and Rip It

She-Hulk's penultimate ep gives a great reintroduction to Matt Murdock even as the quality of the show itself continues to struggle.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis Interview With the Vampire: In Throes of Increasing Wonder

Interview With the Vampire's first episode is strong on story but weak on history.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis She-Hulk: The Retreat

She-Hulk's seventh episode is great until it goes off the rails with an ending that brings the entire series into question.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis She-Hulk: Just Jen

She-Hulk's sixth episode shows more of its sitcom strengths but still has a way to go.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis She-Hulk: Mean, Green, and Straight Poured Into These Jeans

She-Hulk's fifth episode had good bona fides but sadly did not live up to its potential.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis She-Hulk: Is This Not Real Magic?

She-Hulk's fourth episode brings sweet sitcom fun (and we talk about that episode three backlash).

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis She-Hulk: The People vs Emil Blonsky

She-Hulk's third episode had one thing that really worked and two that weren't quite up to snuff.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis She-Hulk: Superhuman Law

She-Hulk's second episode continues the fun even if it doesn't delve too much into details.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis She-Hulk: A Normal Amount of Rage

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law's first episode sets a high bar for quality (no pun intended).

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis Ms Marvel: No Normal

How does the final episode of Ms Marvel stack up against its comics counterpart? (Hint: pretty good, actually!)

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis Ms Marvel: Time and Again

Ms Marvel's penultimate episode stuns as it brings history to life, while hinting that there's much more story to come.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis Ms Marvel: Seeing Red

Ms Marvel's fourth episode has interesting set pieces but doesn't quite stick the landing.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis Ms Marvel: Destined

Ms Marvel's third episode brings great dancing and some interesting character choices.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis Ms Marvel: Crushed

Ms Marvel's second episode shows off its love for the comics while continuing to tell a great story.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis Ms Marvel: Generation Why

Did Ms Marvel Generation Why meet the challenge of translating Kamala from the comics to the MCU?

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis Moon Knight: Gods and Monsters

Moon Knight's first season concludes with a strong episode that leaves the audience asking questions about what comes next.

Announcements

Merch, Memberships, and More

Thanks to your feedback we have merch, more membership options. and there's been updates to the site coding. Read all about it!

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis Moon Knight: Asylum

Moon Knight's fifth episode deftly introduces dissociative identity disorder and an openly Jewish character to the MCU. Find out how well they handled it.

Announcements

Tea With TBQ: New Features Survey Results

The results of a recent survey on new site features, covering what people want, what we'll be implementing, as well as answering submitted questions and comments.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis Moon Knight: The Tomb

Moon Knight's fourth episode deepens our understanding of the characters while using clever tricks to make hard to film scenes happen.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis Moon Knight: The Friendly Type

Moon Knight's third episode continues the show's high quality and highlights the deft skills of director Mohamed Diab.

Pop Culture

Episode Analysis Moon Knight: Summon the Suit

Moon Knight's second episode features strong acting but weaker writing. (Also speculation about future plot details.)