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On the CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rachel Bloom offered a less-than-loving musical paean to the plight of the zaftig.

With his dramatic, long-awaited entrance in Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man (Tom Holland) came in from the cold.

Yes, The Great British Baking Show's future is uncertain. But take heart: we'll always have the Madeira cake episode, in which Season 3's bakers memorably showed us their lovely cracks.

Sometimes a condiment is just a condiment: A line from Beyoncé's "Formation" became its own mini-anthem.

In the Coen Brothers' film, screen idol Burt Gurney (Channing Tatum) taps away the blues.

Once a day until December 25th, NPR's "Monkey See" blog is highlighting a small, good thing that happened in pop culture this year.

This supercut of David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian in The People vs. O.J. Simpson has got more 'Juice's than a breakfast buffet.

Glen Weldon and Audie Cornish discuss the first season of HBO's densely plotted science fiction series.

Here. Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda's 2016 Tony acceptance speech again. Because the night is dark and full of terrors.

A wordless scene from the Barry Jenkins film Moonlight speaks volumes.

Alyssa Edwards. Tatianna. Rihanna's "Shut Up and Drive." This is what a lip-sync battle looks like, Jimmy Fallon.

In Yorgos Lanthimos's film, a hotel manager (Olivia Coleman) lays down the law: "A wolf and a penguin could never live together."

The FX series played with its format in its first season, and its sixth episode smartly switched point-of-view to that of a character we'd been growing impatient to hear from.

Coined in an era when comics were considered junk culture, graphic novel is a hoary, meaningless, and often completely inaccurate term. Comics are comics; stop apologizing for them.

Superheroes preserve the status quo, employ symbolic visual imagery, have flawless bodies and use their powers to place themselves above the law. Are they just fascists in tights?

Oh, sure, it's bluntly descriptive. But the title Affleck has announced for his upcoming Batmovie has got no oomph, no zazz, no moxie. We offer some humble, better suggestions.

The movie titles of the late splatter-film director are evocative ... and wonderfully terrible. Can you tell them apart from the titles of some less-than-classic kids' books?

Every year the Small Press Expo (SPX) brings creators of independent comics together with passionate fans. Many of those fans make comics themselves and say they're inspired by SPX's "funkier" feel.

Arm yourself with NPR's ruthlessly rigorous Emmy predictions, which are based on acute cultural analysis and industry savvy, and thus are totally not wild guesses, at all, seriously.

Last Saturday and Sunday, the 2016 Creative Arts Emmys — 91 of them — were handed out in Los Angeles. We review some notable winners.