NOC Recaps Into the Badlands: The Butterfly Effect
Continuing our recap catch up, the penultimate episode of Into the Badlands was clearly the most interesting of the season. And that’s too bad because after this weekend’s season finale, we don’t if...
View ArticleCole Horibe and Charles Pulliam Talk #AAIronFist
The #AAIronFist train continues! For the latest edition of Hard NOC Life, we welcome journalist Charles Pulliam-Moore and actor/dancer Cole Horibe stop by to talk about why having Iron Fist be an Asian...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Into the Badlands: Bloody Barons
After last week’s episode ramped up the stakes for our heroes, we headed into the first season finale with a lot of questions that needed answers. Who poisoned Jade? Will Quinn take advantage of M.K.’s...
View ArticleThe Imperator and The Widow
Last year was the year of the most iconic feminist leading lady in action/sci-fi, arguably the most in cinematic history: the one and only Imperator Furiosa played be Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury...
View ArticleVenturing Into the Badlands
One of my favorite television series in the last year is Into the Badlands. The noirish dystopian Wuxia drama is the perfect blend of action, mystery and mysticism that keeps my eyes glued to the...
View ArticleBruce Lee Movie Stars a White Guy Because Of Course it Does
This morning, Deadline unveiled the first trailer for Birth of the Dragon, which recently made its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival. Ostensibly, the film depicts the legendary fight...
View ArticleJapanese Twitter Account Displays Bruce Lee and Freddie Mercury as the Best...
Bruce Lee was a cultural icon who revolutionized martial arts films. Freddie Mercury was the front man for the legendary rock group Queen and considered one of rock’s greatest all-time entertainers....
View ArticleOne-on-One with Into the Badlands’ Daniel Wu
AMC’s Into the Badlands is in their second season and are going strong with their viewership, storyline, and martial arts. Unlike other series that attempts the martial arts genre, Into the Badlands’...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Into the Badlands: Teach ‘Em How to Say Goodbye
In my quest to title each Into the Badlands recap after lyrics from a Hamilton song, the writers did me a solid by letting Nathaniel Moon, played by veteran actor Sherman Augustus, say a line from the...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Into the Badlands: You Don’t Have the Votes
Once again, we’re venturing back Into the Badlands as we finally get to see the much anticipated Baron Conclave. Last week, if you recall, we saw Minerva and Waldo arrive at Ryder’s estate to take part...
View ArticleInto the Badlands Stars Go to Karaoke Bars And You Should Too
by Dominic Mah | Originally posted on YOMYOMF So I went to my preferred karaoke bar in NYC the other night, and who should be there but two of the stars of AMC’s Into the Badlands, Emily Beecham and...
View ArticleColor Commentary: Iron Cyst and the Return of the Draggin’
Just when Marvel thought it was safe. Color Commentary is back and this time we’re breaking out the Snark Fu once more on arguably the biggest disaster of 2017: Netflix’s Iron Fist. That’s right....
View ArticleNOC Recaps Into the Badlands: A Glimpse of the Other Side
Another week, another Into the Badlands recap that takes its cue from a Hamilton song. While it’s pretty obvious that I’m quoting Lin-Manuel’s soliloquy from the end of “The World Was Wide Enough” —...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Into the Badlands: A Winter’s Brawl
Despite my better judgement, I went with a Hamilton pun this week rather than straight up lyrics from the show. Couldn’t help it. The fight scene between the Abbots and Sunny’s old and new sidekicks —...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Into the Badlands: What is a Legacy?
Apologies for the delay in getting this weeks Badlands recap out1. I know how much you anticipate my weekly Hamilton references! It was probably a good thing that I didn’t watch this episode live...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Into the Badlands: Equal, Opposite Reactions
There are few nerdy pursuits that bring me a lot of pure joy anymore. Hamilton, of course, is one, and Into the Badlands is the other. And like what the homie Shawn Taylor said, sometimes it just...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Into the Badlands: Disciplined Dissidents
In a fateful example of perfect timing, the airing of Into the Badlands episode nine, titled “Nightingale Sings No More,” coincided with Mother’s Day. So how does the Badlands writing crew celebrate...
View ArticleWaiting for the Into the Badlands Finale
The second season of AMC’s Into the Badlands concludes on Sunday, so our intrepid live tweeter Laura Sirikul joins Keith to look back on one of our favorite shows! Of course, they can’t help...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Into the Badlands: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?
So that happened. We’ve been singing the praises of Into the Badlands all season, but man, that death was disappointing. I’ll keep the spoiler about which character(s) met their ultimate demise until...
View ArticleThree Reasons Why I’m Giving ‘Into the Badlands’ Another Shot
Originally posted at Just Add Color The last time I wrote about Into the Badlands on this site, I was… distressed. Veil died in the Season 2 finale, after being tortured for basically the entire...
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