Culture, Culture / Movies, Culture / TV Netflix’s Big Viewership Numbers Mean Very Little When it comes to evaluating if a movie is a hit or a miss, at least commercially, there’s a very…
Culture This Indie Horror Game Made Me Confront My Fear of Death I’m terrified of my body. The fat buildup on my abdomen. My tiny arms. I’ve always hated having to focus…
Culture, Culture / Movies ‘1917’ VFX Artists Had to Completely Rethink How Films Are Made There’s a moment in 1917—the World War I blockbuster which hit cinemas on Friday—where a plane comes crashing down from…
Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, Culture / TV The Winner of ‘The Circle’ Opens Up About Life IRL Living through the first weeks of this decade has felt a bit like contracting the flu–it was way too hot,…
Culture, Culture / Culture News, Culture / Movies, Culture / TV Oscar Nominations 2020: Netflix Tops All Other Studios Hello, and welcome to The Monitor, WIRED’s culture news roundup. The big news of the day is, of course, the…
Culture, Culture / Digital Culture WWIII Memes, Oddly, Prove There’s Hope for the Internet After a US drone strike killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani last week, the online world saw two nations tumbling toward…
Culture, Culture / Culture News, Culture / TV Netflix’s ‘The Circle’ Is the Best TV Show About the Internet Certain ideas just sound objectively gross. Giving babies cigarettes, for instance, or mayonnaise-flavored Jell-O. The Circle, a US reality television…
Culture, Culture / Digital Culture ‘Friends’ Leaving Netflix Tops This Week’s Internet News Roundup The takeaway: Of course, everyone is missing the real story here—did y’all know Frasier is gone?! Trump’s New Year’s Resolution…
Culture, Culture / Movies, Culture / TV The Marvel Cinematic Universe Will Have a Trans Character ‘Very Soon’ Happy New Year, and welcome to 2020’s first edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s pop culture news roundup. The year is…
Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, Culture / TV The Decade That YouTube Changed TV Without YouTube, late night TV barely exists. That’s not because Lilly Singh, a YouTuber with nearly 15 million subscribers, made…
