Man vs Pop Culture Week : 4/9-4/15

Now that I am mostly settled in the new apartment, I am ready for regular posting.  Taking a cue from Siskoid, I am posting various nerdy, genre, and pop-culture accomplishments from throughout the week.

Primarily, I watched the final two series of British sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look.  Some of my favorite sketches poked fun at television, not as parodies of specific shows (which runs the risk of alienating overseas viewers), but of television in general.  Witness the Gift Shop Sketch, as (over)produced by the fictional "False Jeopardy Productions", or the increasingly desperate Quiz Broadcast, which shows that even after an unspecified apocalypse, television endures.

I also read the full, short run of Marvel's Black Widow series.  The first arc, by Marjorie Liu and Daniel Acuña, was pretty solid and atmospheric, but after the creative team changed, the second arc focused on a different PoV character and ended up with a cliffhanger tying into the Widowmaker mini, which was initially conceived as a crossover with the even-shorter-lived (but more fun in this blogger's opinion) Hawkeye and Mockingbird series.

More to come in weeks ahead!