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Watchmen remains one of DC Comics’s most iconic intellectual properties. It’s seen its share of television and film adaptations, sometimes to polarizing degrees. DC even brought the series to retcon its superhero universe with the crossover event, Doomsday Clock.

Needless to say, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s participation in the superhero medium has been widely profitable. I still remember the hype fans had before going into Zack Snyder’s 2008 film adaptation. There’s a lot of love for this story of a broken-up team in a volatile world.

It’s since been classified as an outstanding work in comic book history, so much so that it’s been lauded by literary crowds. Many often consider it the moment “when comic books grew up.” While Chris Claremont told mature stories with the X-Men in the early 1980s and other comics would periodically touch on serious subjects, Watchmen was a turning point.

Carrie Bradshaw's self-centered behavior, including putting her own problems before her friends, is a red flag for toxic friendship. Carrie has shown a lack of understanding and representation of women's concerns, as seen by her comments on condoms and vaginal odor. Carrie's financial irresponsibility and manipulation of friends to fulfill her own desires demonstrate her immaturity and inability to be a functioning adult.

Sex and the City tells the story of Caroline "Carrie" Bradshaw's (Sarah Jessica Parker) story alongside her friends — Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) — as they navigate being friends despite their different personalities, major social issues, and their always changing sexual lives. Despite being created by real-life writer, Candace Bushnell for her column "Sex and the City" in The New York Observer, the character of Carrie has now taken on a life of its own.

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“Beef” is rocketing up our Emmy predictions charts as the positive reviews continue to pile in for this Steven Yeun and Ali Wong vehicle. This limited series on Netflix was created Lee Sung Jin, who has a smattering of TV credits as a writer and a producer including “Dave,” “Silicon Valley,” “2 Broke Girls,” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” Jin helms the series finale while Hikari and Jake Schreier split the rest of the directing duties between them.

“Beef” follows the after-effects of a road-rage incident that consumes two people — Yeun’s Danny and Wong’s Amy. Danny is a down-on-his-luck contractor trying to piece together a living while literally living out of a motel with his brother (Young Mazino), who he is constantly at odds with. Amy, meanwhile, is a successful business owner trying to navigate the sale of her business to a larger company while stuck with...

Back in the Paleolithic era of the internet, aka the late 2010s, it was highly fashionable to hate on Gwyneth Paltrow. She was a constant punchline for late-night talk show wags. Health experts would regularly profess shock and disgust at the medical misinformation Paltrow peddled on her luxury website Goop, while media outlets breathlessly wrote up every ludicrous product, from vagina-scented candles to psychic vampire repellent sprays, that she’d recommend. She was simultaneously dismissed as an out-of-touch celebrity and held up as an eminent danger to society.

In the post-Covid landscape,...