Author: Reagan Pfifer

We’ve all been there. The sads. The long-term lonelies. The won’t-go-away weepies. Be it a bad break-up, a job loss, or the grief that comes with losing a loved one, there comes a time in all our lives when the rain clouds come and decide to set up shop for a while. During these times, we often turn to video games to distract our troubled minds, and some games are going to be better at this than others. For instance, you might think that something mindless might be the answer. Hopping into some Call of Duty or Fortnite seems like…

Okay, full disclosure, we’re a sucker for “getting the band back together” vibes. When the full might of the Avengers arrives to back up Cap in Endgame, it rules. When all the badass heroines show up to escort Captain Marvel across the battlefield, the 9-year-old girl inside of us squealed with joy. If there’s anything that Marvel knows how to do well, it’s “getting the band together”.Which is why it is such a joy to open the season finale of What If, with such a scene. Only this time, it’s the greatest hits of all of the coolest and most…

Source: Marvel Studios From the very opening of the episode, we know to expect a tonal shift from the jubilant previous episode. This would be a good time to mention, pretty big spoilers ahead, so you know, act accordingly. Source: Marvel Studios This episode has several notable first. It’s the first time in the show that one potential universe has referenced a previously explored one. It’s also the first time a character in the show has interacted with or even noticed The Watcher. It’s the first “to be continued” episode. And while it isn’t the series’ first post-apocalyptic show, but…

What If episode 7 is a much needed breath of fresh air. The series has dabbled in the fun now and then, but at large, it has been a whole lotta the sad broodies. And not so much of the chuckles, ya dig? This Thor centered episode has: No maliceNo menaceNo misery Just giggles with our favorite asgardians. The latest episode centers upon the vague threat that Astrophysicist Jane Foster has captured an energy signature on planet Earth. The same signal has been detected here on a different planet moments before its demise. When she traces the signal it turns…

Remember in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, when Ollivander describes the capabilities of Voldemort? “I think we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter… After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things — terrible, yes, but great.” Terrible… but great. No three words could better sum up the latest installment of Marvel’s What if. At the beginning of the episode, the viewer may have imagined a hypothetical reality where Eric Killmonger, the charismatic villain from Marvel’s Black Panther, might have had a different outcome. Perhaps on the outside of his own reality and personal, familiar hardships, an unlikely mentorship could…

Marvel’s What If… opted for decidedly lighter fare in this week’s episode, taking a hard left at emotional turmoil, and plunging viewers into the popcorn thrills of Zombies. Image Source: Marvel Studios It’s not a bad way to go. They can’t all be philosophical soul searches. You can only search for a soul so much! And while adding the undead to a beloved franchise is not exactly a “new” twist, from the Yakuza game series (Yakuza Dead Souls) to Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) and everything in between, zombies have been groaning their way into our treasured properties…

Superheroes are often portrayed as the best versions of humanity. Aspirational. This latest episode of ‘What If’ shows us a version of Dr. Strange that is just like us. Warts and all. We suffer. We hurt. We do things that we know we shouldn’t, things we know are a truly terrible idea, give in to our most self-destructive tendencies, only this time with superpowers. Image Source: Marvel Studios If we accept that our destinies are predetermined, that we are doomed to repeat them over and over, even as we desperately try to avoid them- what happens if you give our…