August 2nd, 2019While checking out the Summer 2019 anime offerings I discovered there were two musical series heading our way. Since only one of the two new series is currently streaming in North America, I dove straight into the one I could get my hands on first: given. given centres around 16 year old Ritsuka Uenoyama, a guitarist who hasn't felt his...
June 24th, 2019I love giving new shows a chance but sometimes seasons will lose me and often I don't come back. This happened with CW's The 100, but something about the promo for this current season snapped me up. Will it reward that return?
If you're not familiar with The 100, I don't want you to get spoiled – so I'm going to put a trailer here for...
June 19th, 2019Hey, the last thing we want to encourage you to do is to avoid getting out in the sun and surf during the summer months. But... actually, that's what we're going to do. You need a break from the heat at some point!
Summer isn't quite what it used to be in terms of a pure catch-up season – plenty of cable shows premiere during the...
May 31st, 2019Fans of one of the most acclaimed TV shows of the 21st century (so far) are finally getting their closure. Tonight, HBO airs Deadwood: The Movie, a two-hour coda to the David Milch Western series that was unceremoniously cancelled back in 2006 after airing a very open-ended third-season finale.
Now, Deadwood might not immediately seem...
May 17th, 2019We're now just over 48 hours away from the last episode of Game of Thrones. Ever. This is it. And we're probably still going to be talking about it for weeks yet...
The last season of the beloved HBO series has transcended geek culture and turned into the biggest (and some say, the last) watercooler TV discussion of the century so...
December 7th, 2018Happy holidays! As we all know, there are many holiday specials on the docket for this time of year, but we thought we'd draw attention to our favorite regular ol' shows who have a bit of holiday spirit in 'em...
So without further adieu, here are our favorite Xmas-or-other-holiday-adjacent episodes of TV from the past 25 years. Now,...
November 9th, 2018This month we're featuring both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul across our LABORATORY theme in Loot Crate and Loot Crate DX – two of the best examples of an original show and its spin-off in perfect synchronicity.
As spin-off series go, Better Call Saul is certainly one of the most critically acclaimed of all time; you could...
October 31st, 2018Some of my fondest memories during October were all of the crazy Halloween cartoon specials and fun commercials. Some of them are completely insane and my eyes widened a few times watching them now as an adult! How many of these do you remember?
Make sure to have a safe and happy Halloween and save us some peanut-butter...
September 14th, 2018Previously during this crate theme, we've examined some of the great shows directly influenced by The X-Files in style and tone... but what about the show's topical siblings across the ages of TV, the other shows that deal with alien invaders of some sort?
Granted, the invasion mythology was just part of what made The X-Files iconic...
February 21st, 2018Though I am a cord cutter, and I enjoy the heck out of my streaming services, I personally haven't quite made the leap toward working YouTube content into my regular TV consumption. Which isn't to say that I don't enjoy digging through YouTube obssessively for a completely different reason...
By far my favorite pastime on YouTube is...
December 29th, 2017Great Britain has many television traditions, many of which have caught on in the States over the years – hello, everything from Doctor Who to The Great British Bakeoff . Others have been adapted into US cover-versions, and still others haven't really caught on in force. (Though for Anglophiles everywhere, we know how to seek out the...
December 19th, 2017With just a few more days to go till the season hits peak holly, jolly, it's the perfect time to think about sitting on the couch and dosing yourself with cheer with a geeky holiday marathon. But, what to watch?!
Everyone's childhood holiday experience varies in those particular pop-culture touchstones that make us so giddy and full of...
December 8th, 2017The expansion of the Marvel filmed universe into television began slowly but steadily, and as of 2017 it's a complex and rich (maybe even richer) palette of super-stories than even the movies of the MCU...
This year alone, Marvel's small-screen offerings across numerous platforms and networks included a long-awaited Netflix team-up (the...
October 27th, 2017TODAY, stranger fans! Stranger Things 2 is finally available to stream on Netflix! In fact, we're confused why you're reading this and not binging right now...
Who are we kidding, though, you probably got up at midnight last night and binged the entire season right through to this morning! No? Even if that's a slight exaggeration, we're...
October 18th, 2017He's already conquered the podcast realm with Lore, and this month sees Aaron Mahnke expanding his world of frightning myths and legends into both print and television...
The Loot Crate team were delighted to host Aaron during this year's New York Comic-Con for a signing at our booth; he was at NYCC with the team behind Amazon TV's...
September 12th, 2017Summer's officially over, and we're gearing up for fall TV... or you know, occasionally going back and watching the greatest hits of Marvel's The Defenders! (That's the added bonus of Netflix: scrubbing to watch your fave scenes over and over!)
Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist are featured in our Marvel Gear & Goods...
August 29th, 2017It's really hard to undersell what a big deal this was when it happened in the winter of 1980. Like, it was a big deal when Mark Hamill hosted The Muppet Show, no doubt... but droids on Sesame Street?! Talk about blowing a 5-year-old's mind!
We're flying our Star Wars flag today with this reminiscence of one of the biggest TV moments of...
July 3rd, 2017It's the time of year for barbecues, fireworks, pool parties and more... however, in TV land, it's time again for the original wonderful and strange trip.
The Twilight Zone marathon became a staple of the Fourth of July holiday in the States (and, also, New Year's Eve/New Year's Day) somewhere in the early 1980's, and few can remember...
June 8th, 2017Summer is here and the days of lounging on the couch watching TV have slowly crept their way into your life, right? Maybe on the weekends?
Whatever the case may be, this season is the best way to dig into all the television you may have missed during the fall and spring, as well as ready yourself to start on the smattering of shows...
April 28th, 2017Now that Grimm has ended, NBC is betting on an adaptation of a Charlaine Harris series of novels to win over hearts and fill that void.
Midnight, Texas, which debuts July 24, will introduce viewers to a quiet town that is more than meets the eye (it’s chockfull of supernatural beings!). After screening the season premiere months early...
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