Aftermath

Welcome back to The Work, a column about resistance in fiction. This month: The Ultimates (2024), by Deniz Camp, Juan Frigeri, et al. 

Is the superhero over, or are reports of their demise overstated? This summer has mounted arguments for bo...

If you haven’t been keeping up via weekly streams and a near-nonstop barrage of clips, Infowars—the Sandy Hook-denying conspiracy mill once headed up by Alex Jones—is now in the playfully nefarious clutches of The Onion. For the past month and a half, Tim Heidecker and a seemingly bottomless rolodex of popular comedians have constructed a bizarro alternate universe version of...

Yesterday, Twitch announced that Amazon is going to be training AI models on Twitch streams, VODs, and chats, with users forced to opt in by default

Today Netflix, ubiquitous in the realm of TV and film but known mostly in the video game industry for shutting down studios, took the hatchet to two more.

One, the Helsinki-based Moonloot, hadn’t released anything, but the other, Night School, created the beloved Oxenfree narrative adventure series, as well as comedic outdrink-the-devil simulator Afterparty...

Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle was primarily made by one guy, namely Yoshio Nishimura. This is both an objective fact of the game that you can feel every second that you can play it, and squarely a part of how the game pitches itself. Nis...