Browsing: 2000s

Editor’s Note:This article is part of a series examining how television has portrayed policing over the decades. From cultural upheaval to procedural realism, each installment will explore how TV crime dramas reflected — and shaped — their times.

Was Preacher‘s mentally challenged, self-pleasuring Jesus clone insufficient to offend your sense of decorum and taste? Did the “Herogasm” episode of The Boys feel like light entertainment? Do we have a comic book adaptation for you. Crossed, even by Garth Ennis standards, is about as dark and indulgent of reprehensible scenarios as comics get. Whatever…

The 2000s were a frenzied turning point for pop culture and the pop celebs in it. As reality television exploded, celebrity blogs and paparazzi photos alike would dominate the internet. Social media then also began to exert influence over how fans would interact with their favorite movie stars. It’s just a different world day by…

New film Primetime, with Robert Pattinson, centres on the divisive series which performed sting operations on would-be abusers. A ratings hit, it caused much debate about TV ethics.

The 2000s were a weird time for superhero TV shows. It was basically the one decade in the lifetime of millennials that didn’t feature a bunch of TV series centered on the concept of superheroes. The ’90s had stellar cartoons like Batman: The Animated Series and X-Men: The Animated Series. The 2010s brought Arrow, The…

The 2000s gave us some of the biggest superhero movies ever made—and somehow, it also gave us these. Before Marvel turned superheroes into a cinematic money-printing machine, studios took some questionable gambles with superhero concepts. Some became classics, some became cult favorites, and some disappeared faster than the Invisible Woman in Latveria. It was a…

Ah, the 2000s, a time when flip phones and iPods were at the forefront of technology, and social media was still finding its groove. However, it was also a period of scientific breakthroughs, as NASA found water on Mars and cloning experiments were all the rage. In short, sci-fi storytellers had plenty of real-world concepts…

Takashi Okazaki described the origins of his manga series “Afro Samurai!” in an interview with UGO, and it began as modestly as possible. It seems that Okazaki was fond of the American Blaxploitation aesthetic and was always drawn to the sound as an aesthetic of hip-hop and soul music. He taught himself to draw Black…

Disney officially brought back one of its biggest Disney Channel fantasy sitcom shows of all time in 2024, but with the recent release of its third season, the revival (and sequel) to the original show has come to an end. Over the past decade, Disney has spent a lot of time and resources bringing back…

While most couch potatoes fall for a fictional crush, true TV buffs tend to catch fictional townwanderlust. From sleepy, historic settlements home to even older supernatural creatures to cozy small towns colored by quirky characters, the settings of 2000s shows are main characters in their own right. You might be familiar with your favorite fictional…