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Jarrod Jones

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Covers:  Pop culture, i.e. comics, television, and film.
Doesn't Cover: Sports, politics, fashion, economics.
Writes about movies/TV. Words: @TheAVClub @doomrocket_ Formerly: @PasteMagazine, @IGN. Reads lots (and lots) of comics. boxd.it/3VcP

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Film/TV critic. (DoomRocket, Primetimer, IGN, Polygon, The A.V. Club.) reads lots (and lots) of comics.

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In Review: Chapter 51, Night After Night, Lockbox

In Review: Chapter 51, Night After Night, Lockbox

A veritable festival of peculiarity.

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House Of The Dragon knocks out its most efficient regime change yet

House Of The Dragon knocks out its most efficient regime change yet

In the Battle Of The Gullet's aftermath, House Targaryen knocks out its most efficient regime change to date.

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HOT PRESS 6/22/26: Catching up with (and saying goodbye to) great dads

HOT PRESS 6/22/26: Catching up with (and saying goodbye to) great dads

Writing through it.

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Sails meet scales in the blistering season premiere of House Of The Dragon

Sails meet scales in the blistering season premiere of House Of The Dragon

Sails meet scales in the blistering Battle Of The Gullet, where Steve Toussaint finally gets to shine as Corl…

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Masters of the Universe Review: Action figure theater

Masters of the Universe Review: Action figure theater

Good journey, bad movie.

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Nicolas Cage can't rescue Spider-Noir

Nicolas Cage can't rescue Spider-Noir

The stuff that snoozes are made of.

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In Review: Chapter 51, Night After Night, Lockbox

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By Jarrod Jones Verified
| Substack
CHAPTER 51 Chapter51 is a mock documentary, a fake-movie murder mystery, a serial-killer comedy, and I don’t even know what else. I do know that it sits at the nexus of arthouse pretension and Hitchcockian gooner schlock; it’s silly, nimble, pretty to look at, obnoxious, and exhausting. It’s also funny. Every so often, in its feverish, inside-Hollyweird hurly-burly, it damn near transcends its film-school pretensions and stumbles into something that feels, dare I say, unique.
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House Of The Dragon knocks out its most efficient regime change yet

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By Jarrod Jones Verified
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House Targaryen is hardly known for its temperance. Yet the speed with which it’s tearing itself apart in House Of The Dragon, Ryan Condal’s syncopated retelling of George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, suggests that centuries of inbreeding and unchecked power have genetically stripped the family of all forbearance—say nothing of brains. Retaliation in this civil war has piled so high that everyone involved has been rendered incapable of distinguishing strategy from self-harm.
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HOT PRESS 6/22/26: Catching up with (and saying goodbye to) great dads

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By Jarrod Jones Verified
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Braving the gauntlet of movies, TV, comics, and other stuff that’s bad for you is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. This week: Saying bye to a great man, reflecting on my strange relationship with fictional dads, and my sole review out of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. I don’t normally write about my private life, but sometimes living plays too rough and crashes into the digital space like an uninvited guest.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

A piece on Superman's TV history for The AV Club.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Oh, yes.

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