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Liam Price | Monday, January 23, 2023
I’ve been on a “Black Mirror” phase since winter break and there’s a special episode, titled “Be Right Back,” which we must reflect on due to Black Mirror’s trademark “predicting the future” abilities. It’s a tragedy, at least in how it felt. A woman makes love to her real-life husband, who, she learns in the
Claire Miller | Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Forget dating apps, SYRs or meeting someone at a party. Imagine meeting a potential romantic partner, or even your future spouse, by taking a 10-minute survey. Originally created by two Stanford students in 2018, the Marriage Pact is a 10-minute questionnaire that creates pairs of college students based on their shared values preferences in a
Dillon Begley | Tuesday, February 25, 2020
With “Sonic the Hedgehog” recently rolling into theaters, the debate about films inspired by video games has re-entered public conversation. Movies that attempt to adapt the stories of video games into films are, more often than not, poor in quality. Additionally, they typically do not make much of a profit at the box office. This
Nora McGreevy, Martin Kennedy, Ryan Israel, Cameron Sumner and Mike Donovan | Wednesday, January 23, 2019
We have been gone for a while, and a lot happened. Over the winter break, new shows, movies and music all entered the world, and unfortunately, we at Scene were not able to cover it all. To make up for it, today’s Scene selections is a potpourri of culture happenings from the last month, a
Maggie Walsh | Wednesday, January 17, 2018
It’s 3 a.m. I’m bleary-eyed, slightly disoriented, and I’m pretty sure a small animal could comfortably live inside the mess that is my hair right now. But I’m triumphant: After nearly six hours of textbook binging, I finished season four of “Black Mirror.” “Black Mirror” is a strange show to binge watch because every episode
Matthew Macke | Friday, November 11, 2016
It’s trendy to compare Netflix’s British techno-dystopian series “Black Mirror” to the classic American horror show “The Twilight Zone.” The comparison is fair, as both feature psychological horror plots with a concluding moral lesson, but it’s a comparison that is probably increasingly irrelevant today. I’ve seen maybe three episodes of “The Twilight Zone” in my