Luann Algoso is a professional do-gooder with a master’s degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution. Since moving to Portland nearly a decade ago, she’s busied herself with making the world a better place. After landing a job at one of Oregon’s largest nonprofits, she was thrilled—but soon saw that while the organization’s mission was […]
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Netflix’s Everything Sucks! Is ’90s Nostalgia Set in Boring, Oregon
Netflix There’s another Beaver State show for you to check out on your televisions and tablets this weekend: Netflix’s Everything Sucks! is a ’90s-set high-school comedy/drama that’s set in Boring, Oregon (the show was filmed in nearby Oregon City). Netflix has done pretty well with the teen genre lately, what with The End of the […]
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Here and Now: HBO’s New Drama Is Set in Fantasy Portland
There’s more Portland™ in the first five minutes of Here and Now than most of the city’s residents see in a week: A young gentleman with an unfortunate man bun bikes across the Burnside Bridge and along a gentrified stretch of North Mississippi, then hops off to flirt with a tattooed beardo at Spin Laundry […]
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Weekend Watching: Sex and Violence Are Fun in Altered Carbon, and Not at All Fun in Absentia
Netflix’s new science fiction show Altered Carbon lands today. Netflix It’s a weird weekend for movies—there’s only one new one receiving wide release, a horror flick called Winchester that was not previewed for critics and does not seem to be liked by those who have seen it. (In Portland, there are some worthwhile smaller releases […]
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You Could Be an Extra in the Next Season of American Vandal!
Courtesy Netflix One of the most popular shows on Netflix (and for good reason) is season one of American Vandal—a pitch perfect parody of the nation’s obsession with Serial, S-Town, and other true crime documentaries, except this one investigates the mystery of who drew a bunch of dicks on the faculties’ cars in a high […]
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You Can Eat Steven Universe-Inspired VooDoo Doughnuts All Day On February 3
Cartoon Network UPDATE: A new media release provided to the Mercury announced that the Steven Universe/VooDoo Doughnut partnership will instead be taking place on Saturday, February 3. Do you loooove Voodoo Doughnuts? Are you obsessed with the Cartoon Network show Steven Universe, AKA one of the cutest, purest, most original, inclusive, and insightful cartoons on […]
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Electric Dreams, Counterpart, Waco, and More: Hey, January TV Is Pretty Good
Janelle Monáe in Amazon’s Philip K. Dick show, Electric Dreams. It’s miserable outside. Good thing there’s so much great new television to watch—more than enough to tide you over until spring. You may have already binged Netflix’s The End of the F***ing World, whose eight 20-minute episodes are a brisk, caustic treat. The British show […]
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The (Possibly Only) Good Episode of the New X-Files Is On Tonight
I love The X-Files more than I love most of my family members, and The X-Files breaks my goddamn heart. It’s always been a hit-or-miss show, with brilliant episodes sitting right next to terrible ones, and its recent revival—with six episodes in 2016, and a 10-episode limited series that’s currently airing—has only exacerbated its frustrating […]
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Electric Dreams, Waco, and More: Here’s The Best TV to Watch This Horrible, Horrible Winter
Winter Is the Worst. TV Is the Best.
Winter is the worst. TV is the best.
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Grab Your iPad (and Your Remote) for Steven Soderbergh’s Cinematic Experiment Mosaic
You’ve got two different ways to watch Steven Soderbergh’s new cinematic experiment, Mosaic: You can turn on HBO and watch it as a six-episode series, with parts airing each night from Monday January 22 to Friday, January 26. Alternately, you can pick up your phone or tablet, download the Mosaic from Steven Soderbergh app, and […]
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Carrie Brownstein Is Making a TV Show About Her Life (and a New Sleater-Kinney Album Is in the Works!)
It’s “a show about a young woman, a band, and a community learning how to be unafraid of their own noise.”
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Weekend Watching: The End of the F***ing World Looks Darkly Funny
Look at their funny wrong-sided steering wheel! Oh, you Brits. Courtesy of Netflix What are you watching this weekend? The most promising new thing on the streaming services is The End of the F***ing World, a British comedy series that looks as dark as they come. Its title might a little too nose-perfect for the […]