In the excellent episode “Bart’s Comet,” which plays out like an even funnier version of the disaster comedy, Don’t Look Up, Bart accidentally discovers a comet is heading toward Springfield, and ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

The first clue that The Simpsons season 29, episode 21, “Flanders’ Ladder” is a parody of Sixth Sense, the film where a young child goes to a therapist to deal with the fact that he sees dead people ...

On Sunday night, the closing credits of the 659th episode of The Simpsons were suddenly interrupted. The standard black screen disappeared and was replaced by five adult men tearing through a brutal ...

Tudum, meet Tud’oh! “The Simpsons” has gone “Simpflix” with the two-part episode “A Serious Flanders,” which executive producer Matt Selman calls a “dark, twisted ‘Fargo’ story.” Variety has an ...