Opinion: The MCU Is Losing Its Might

I’ve been a fan of Marvel for a long time. I watched The Avengers in the cinema like seemingly everyone else in the world at the time, and felt that sense of wonder seeing these heroes together on screen for the first time. From that point I enjoyed almost every movie that followed in the … Read more

I Finally Watched Friends – A Retrospective 16 Years On

Friends - A Retrospective 16 Years Later.

I’ll start off with a simple admission: Until now I’d never watched Friends. I was familiar with particular moments throughout the show’s run, from Ross’s slip up at the altar to “Emily” (Rachel), to Monica and Chandler and the Joey memes. When asked why I’d never watched the show, I’d remark that I wasn’t a nineties … Read more

WandaVision Should Have Let Wanda Be Loveable, Tragic, And Wrong

WandaVision‘s first few episodes were onto something brilliant. Equal parts heart-warming and disturbing, we watched Wanda live out the life she deserves: loving, stable, idyllic. Many rejoiced in how the often formulaic Marvel Cinematic Universe was stretching its creative muscles. Far from the world-ending stakes of Avengers: Endgame, here, we were tuning in every week to … Read more