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Game of Thrones is now the most awarded show in Emmy history. While there’s no dearth of articles here on The Fandomentals that would...
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It’s time, it’s time, it’s shopping time! Yes we’ve all had our fill of turkey and pumpkin pie, so now we work it off...
Podcasts
Ariadne has spent a lot of her time in Evastria praying. First to Salah, and now to Waeljna, hoping that someone will answer. Hoping...
Analysis
Peanut Butter and Jelly. Cookies and Cream. Some things are just better together. And when it comes to character tropes, no two archetypes bring...
Lifestyle
As we officially kick off the holiday season this week, we must always think of family. And what series is more about family than...
Television
This week in our Doctor Who re-watch, Pete continues to be inexplicably fond of evil aliens in ‘Boom Town’, and Andy makes lots of...
Television
I’ve been rooting for this show for a while now. Probably since its entire premise got obliterated thanks to The Winter Soldier, which somehow...
Television
It’s that time of year again! The return of American Horror Story, Ryan Murphy’s uneven anthology series that returns each fall to confound and divide us....
Film
Previous installments of the “separated at draft” series have dissected characters to demonstrate how strikingly similar archetypes thrive across different narratives. For today, I...
Television
In anticipation of the Season 3 premiere of Star Wars: Rebels, we — Zach and Nick — are doing a retrospective series looking back at...
Analysis
A few recent events got me thinking about cinema industry and the demand for “big names”, and how this is frequently used to justify Hollywood’s...
Analysis
If you enjoy the cynical, grim deconstruction of beloved childhood characters and icons, or if you enjoy gratuitous violence with shocking twists and turns...
Television
Spoilers for 2×11 “eps2.9pyth0n-pt1.p7z” ahead Originally, “eps2.9pyth0n-pt1.p7z” and its concluding second half were meant to air on the same night. To say that it shows...
Television
Fall is here! Leaves [theoretically] changing, flavoring added to coffee that has simply no business being there, and yes, another season of television shows....
Television
Texts from the Tardis is an ongoing Doctor Who rewatch in which we compare the reactions and analysis of a first time viewer (Peter)...
Books
Things look dicey for Gandalf and the Fellowship after the defeat on Caradhras. They are not far from Rivendell, and the first major obstacle...
Analysis
Another article about representation? You’re darn right. But this time I want to speak about what happens when there’s not enough representation. This time...
Television
A while back someone asked Kylie how she would compare Game of Thrones to other popular TV shows, like History Channel’s Vikings. The coincidence...
Comics
There’s a bit of a tradition with superhero comics. More often than not, if the character is able, they’ll be introduced by saving a...
Television
Sure, it may seem like it on a first casual watching of Community – after all, that’s how everyone seems to react to her...
