WandaVision theories drying up along with it, but a whole new sub-genre of
WandaVision discussions has risen up to fill the hex-shaped hole in our hearts: the “please explain
The Hollywood Reporter including an explanation for why Evan Peters was cast as the fake version of Pietro and how Disney’s PR machine inadvertently spoiled what the writers thought was going to be a really cool twist.
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As for Peters, who played a different incarnation of Wanda’s brother Pietro in Fox’s
X-Men movies, Schaeffer says she didn’t want his appearance to be “a gimmick,” but rather a meta twist on the fact that Wanda knows he’s “
I’ve been covering startup EV maker Canoo for a few years here, and I’ve been continually impressed with its very straightforward rounded-box-on-wheels approach to design. It has been great at maximizing interior volume and creating what have resembled modernized electric Volkswagen Type 2 Transporters, even before VW began to do the same. Now Canoo is showing an electric pickup truck with such a brilliantly useful design that I can’t help but think of it in terms of its opposite, Tesla’s Cybertruck, which has a radical design, too.
episode “Trapped In The Closet” lampooned the Church of Scientology simply by stating the religion’s beliefs out loud. A bit of condensed
Dianetics, some shoddy animation of Xenu, and the words “THIS IS WHAT SCIENTOLOGISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE” flashing across the screen in all caps was all it took.
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South ParQ Vaccination Special gives a similar treatment to QAnon. When Mr. Garrison returns to teaching after his (a.k.a. Trump’s) presidency comes to an end, most of the town’s parents pull the students out of school, fearful of exposing their kids to a man who caused so much destruction to the world. South Park Elementary’s educators are also being put under additional stress due to not being given access to the new COVID vaccine. That’s when Q’s disgraced and debunked supporters swoop in, reassembling as a homeschooling service called Tutoron to clandestinely infect the youth of South Park with their false doctrine.
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Now that an entire year has passed since most of us went into lockdown in response to the spread of COVID-19, there’s enough distance from the beginning of the pandemic to look back with some kind of remove and see how it’s affected the normal patterns of our lives. In an effort to allow readers “into the life of a creative mind in quarantine,”
The New York Timesposed seven questions to 75 different artists about how a year of wildly different living has shaped themselves and their work.
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The list of responses is huge, but a few of the responses stick out. When asked what they’d created over the past year, The National’s Aaron Dessner mentions working with Taylor Swift; Aidy Bryant says she and her colleagues on
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Technology gets faster, cheaper, and more capacious year after year, but every once in a while it still manages to catch you by surprise. It wasn’t too long ago that 4TB of storage required a RAID enclosure claiming a corner of your desk, but Crucial’s new X6 4TB portable SSD packs that much storage into a palm-sized drive that doesn’t seem like it should actually exist.
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Big bumps in storage capacities always come with a premium price tag at launch, and Crucial’s new X6 4TB SSD is going to set you back $490 if you run out and buy one right now. By comparison, you can get a 4TB portable hard drive right now for about $90 if you find a deal. (Good news they always seem to be on sale.)