The Monitor

By Wired

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The Monitor episodes:

04.01.2019
Game of Thrones
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12.14.2016
You Know What? 2016 Was a Pretty Great Year for Pop Culture
It’s that time of year again—the time when we all look back at the past 12 months and try to figure out what the hell just happened. Here on The Monitor, things are no different. In fact, that’s what this...
11.23.2016
It’s Time for a Big Ol’ Holiday TV Smackdown!
Aside from turkey-eating, the biggest Thanksgiving tradition amongst your faithful WIRED Culture crew is sitting in front of the television not watching football. (OK, some of us watch football.) Our other tradition, of course, is fighting about what’s the best...
11.16.2016
A Tribe Called Quest’s New Record Is Awesome. National Politics? Not So Much
Alright, where to begin? Since we last stepped into the WIRED podcast booth, America elected a new president, Dave Chappelle took over hosting duties at Saturday Night Live for the first time, and A Tribe Called Quest released their first...
11.09.2016
Doctor Strange Has Us Totally Entranced
Last night, Donald Trump won the US presidency. Last weekend, Doctor Strange won big at the box office. What do these two things have in common? Well, for one, they’re both surprising outcomes. And, for another, we’re talking about both...
11.02.2016
Too Much Internet Speculation Is Ruining TV
Raise your hand if you’re watching Westworld. Great, thanks. Now, raise your hand if you spend as much time listening to podcasts and reading Reddit threads about the show as you do watching it. That’s what we thought. Aside from...
10.19.2016
But Really, Who’s Better: Tom Cruise or Ben Affleck?
It’s a question so simple we can believe we haven’t asked ourselves before: Who is better, Tom Cruise or Ben Affleck? One of them, Affleck, dominated the box office last weekend with The Accountant. The other, Cruise (obvi), has a...
10.12.2016
Which Late-Night TV Host Is Better at Trump Takedowns?
If the month before a presidential election is a time ripe for anything, it’s political satire. Memes, op-ed essays, riffs by standup comedians—all these things hit fever-pitch levels in the weeks before folks got to the polls in the US....
10.05.2016
Trust Us: Luke Cage and Westworld Are Better Off on TV
Westworld started life as a Michael Crichton movie. Luke Cage first burst on the scene as a comics character decades ago. This past weekend, both of those stories made their television debuts—and both are better suited for the small screen....
09.30.2016
The Secrets of Luke Cage, Straight From Its Showrunner
Sweet Christmas! After months of teasers, trailers, and WIRED cover stories, Marvel’s new Netflix series, Luke Cage, finally comes out today. And if you need to break up your binge-watching, we’ve got a special edition of The Monitor just for...
09.28.2016
Folks, TV May Have Reached Peak Millennial Slacker-Com
You can’t fire up a Roku these days without immediately being offered a steady stream of shows about twenty-, thirty-, and fortysomethings figuring out their lives in the hip ‘burgs of cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. (See:...