by José Dueño Gorbea, SJ | Sep 12, 2022 | Pop Culture, TV ~ Approx. 5 mins
The HBO show Euphoria follows various high school students in their struggles with drugs, sex, and violence. The main character, Rue Bennett (Zendaya), is a drug addict trying to work a recovery program with her sponsor Ali Muhammed (Colman Domingo). In the first...
by Noah Banasiewicz, SJ | Sep 12, 2022 | Pop Culture, TV ~ Approx. 5 mins
I was rather late in joining the Ted Lasso bandwagon. Living in this Golden Age of television, when Ted Lasso came out, I brushed it off as a little comedy I would eventually get to. My slate of shows was already too full with heavier, darker shows like Ozark and The...
by An Nguyen Vu, SJ | Feb 14, 2022 | Art, TV ~ Approx. 5 mins
As children of the early 90s, my little brother and I had few options when it comes to daytime entertainment. Compared to the plethora of outlets like Netflix or Youtube today, all we had was the TV, and we often found ourselves glued to it, consuming anything that...
by Sean Barry, SJ | Aug 27, 2021 | Fantasy, Pop Culture, TV ~ Approx. 3 mins
What is your dream? What would be the thing that you would strive for no matter what? We can answer that question in a myriad of ways, and the answer may vary from year to year. But, I think that deep down we all have something we want more than anything else. The...
by Jason McCreery, SJ | Sep 11, 2020 | Film, Pop Culture, TV ~ Approx. 4 mins
This article contains minor spoilers for the TV series, The Boys. What do you get when you add superheroes to American life as we know it today? Creator and show-runner of The Boys, Eric Kripke, answers with a mixture of the charisma of movie stars, the lethality of...
