Review: Hulu’s ‘M.O.D.O.K.’ Is a Frenetic, Loud Marvel Sitcom That’s More ‘Robot Chicken’ Than ‘WandaVision’
‘M.O.D.O.K.’ may be better than ‘Robot Chicken’, but surely the studio that brought us ‘WandaVision’ is capable of so much more.
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Model Behavior
Nicole is back! The Junkies welcome her return with a big discussion of Law and Order: SVU, and whether she really was auditioning to play a cadaver. Hayley describes her solo snowboarding honeymoon in Purgatory and the junky (not Junkie!) beaches in California, but everyone still wants to vacation there anyway. Shauna delves into Jupiter’s Legacy and how it ranks next to The Boys and Invincible. Alex reviews Those Who Wish Me Dead and Together Together, and rates them by how much action the main characters get, and Alex explores the viral story of WingStop getting naughty on Twitter, while Shauna learns of the spicy texts between Olivia Munn and Chris Pine. This may be our horniest episode ever (excluding Benson and Stabler, who took 22 years to get to first base.) Then Hayley and Nicole discuss the Queens of Mean, salty Ellen DeGeneres and bully Chrissy Teigen, whose name we are not going to pronounce correctly anymore.
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Batman vs Superman? DC’s Biggest Heroes Each Get New Solo Animated Series on HBO Max
Batman and Superman will don their capes again as they each get new stylized animated series from Cartoon Network and HBO Max.
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Poor Ben Platt Gets Roasted on Twitter for His Appearance in ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Movie Trailer
Aw Ben Platt. You may be amazing in both the musical and movie versions of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’, but you aren’t catching a break from Twitter by being a smidge too old now to play a high school kid.
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Host Nikki Glaser Celebrates The Realness of the Unscripted on MTV’s Movie and TV Awards Part Two
“More real than ‘Bridgerton;” – Nikki Glaser hosts yet another MTV Movie and TV awards show; this one celebrating reality shows.
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Bezos Buys Bond? Amazon Reportedly Offers $9B for MGM Studios on Heels of Warner/Discovery Merger
Rather than compete with the studios, Amazon seems poised to buy one, as rumors of it acquiring MGM swirl on the same day WarnerMedia announces a merger with Discovery.
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Marvel Rakes in the Awards (But for TV This Time) at 2021 MTV Movie and TV Awards
The MTV Movie & TV awards were given out Sunday, and host Leslie Jones presaged a Marvel sweep of the TV categories, while movie awards were won by Chadwick Boseman, Jones and more.
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REVIEW: Jigsaw-Wannabe (Or Is It?) Targets Dirty Cops in Gruesome ‘Spiral’ [SPOILERS]
‘Spiral’ both continues and branches off from parent ‘Saw’ franchise with new blood from Samuel L. Jackson and star/executive producer Chris Rock, who came up with the idea for the newest installment.
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Review: Fantastic ‘Castlevania’ Returns to Netflix for Its Fourth (And Possibly Final) Monster Mash
‘Castlevania’ fans (and newbies) get ready to do the monster mash: the fourth and likely final season of the show is here.
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We are one Junkie short this week, so as Alex, Hayley and Shauna soldier on without Nicole, they decide to do a deep dive into Marvel content past and yet to come in the year 2021. After speculating on Nicole’s whereabouts, we learn Shauna finally got into Invincible, Alex is digging superhero comedy The Neighbor (El Vecino), and Hayley is all over the Lost spoof Wrecked this week. Speaking of shipwrecks, the Junkies salute the 22 year-long sexless voyage of Benson and Stabler before settling in to talk all things Marvel. the Junkies look back at the emotional journeys of WandaVision and Falcon and the Winter Solder, and ahead to Loki (and everyone’s guilty pleasure Owen Wilson,) the Venom sequel, and getting drunk on the energy of seeing the next Marvel Phase 4 movies in the theater. Never fear, Nicole is back with the Junkies next week!
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- PCJ Pop #3 May 20, 2025This week, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna recs Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and Olivia pushes everyone to see Speak No Evil with James McAvoy.
