Charles Pulliam-Moore

In the fictional country of Atropia (which is actually a training facility in California styled to resemble an Iraqi village), few people take their jobs as seriously as struggling actress Fayruz (Alia Shawkat). She knows there’s something twisted about roleplaying as a chemical weapons expert for the benefit of soldiers visiting Atropia before they’re deployed to fight in the real, ongoing Iraq War. But it’s a paying gig where she happens to be falling in love with a fellow pretend insurgent (Callum Turner). Though Atropia gets unwieldy between its romantic and satirical modes, it nails the Bush era’s “patriotic” madness.

The Pokémon Company said earlier this month that it was wanted to hear feedback about Pokémon TCG Pocket’s long-awaited trade feature. And now that everyone has had a chance to experience / balk at how terrible Pocket’s trading actually is in practice, the company says it is “actively investigating ways to improve the feature.”

While the rest of internet’s arguing over whether Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s theme song is a bop, Netflix’s Devil May Cry series is just rollin’ with Limp Bizkit.

In what kinda feels like a play to the “TV and movies have gotten too sexy” crowd, Netflix is moving forward with a Little House on the Prairie reboot from executive producer / showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys) that the streamer describes as “a kaleidoscopic view of the struggles and triumphs of those who shaped the frontier.”

Silo’s second season may be over, but if you’re not ready to engage with the outside world again, this vibey tour through the show’s sets might be right up your alley.