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Loot Anime: 'given' Delivers Music and Romance This Summer Anime

Loot Anime: 'given' Delivers Music and Romance This Summer

August 2nd, 2019 While 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...
Feature: Let's Talk About The Latest Season of The 100 Features

Feature: Let's Talk About The Latest Season of The 100

June 24th, 2019 I 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...
The Shows You Should Be Streaming This Summer Features

The Shows You Should Be Streaming This Summer

June 19th, 2019 Hey, 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...
Friday Five: The Beloved Shows That Came Back To Us Friday Five

Friday Five: The Beloved Shows That Came Back To Us

May 31st, 2019 Fans 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...
Friday Five: Here Are Five Other Debate-Stirring Series Finales! Friday Five

Friday Five: Here Are Five Other Debate-Stirring Series Finales!

May 17th, 2019 We'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...
Friday Five: Best Holiday Television Episodes of the Past 25 Years! Friday Five

Friday Five: Best Holiday Television Episodes of the Past 25 Years!

December 7th, 2018 Happy 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,...
Friday Five: When TV Spin-Offs Aim High But Don't Land Friday Five

Friday Five: When TV Spin-Offs Aim High But Don't Land

November 9th, 2018 This 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...
Video Vault: Do You Remember These 80's Halloween Commercials? Lists & Things

Video Vault: Do You Remember These 80's Halloween Commercials?

October 31st, 2018 Some 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...
Friday Five: More Great INVADERS in Favorite TV Shows! Friday Five

Friday Five: More Great INVADERS in Favorite TV Shows!

September 14th, 2018 Previously 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...
Playback TV: Curating Your Childhood on YouTube Playlists Features

Playback TV: Curating Your Childhood on YouTube Playlists

February 21st, 2018 Though 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...
Friday Five: Get In On the Tradition of The Big Fat Quiz of the Year Friday Five

Friday Five: Get In On the Tradition of The Big Fat Quiz of the Year

December 29th, 2017 Great 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...
Programming A Perfect Childhood Holiday Marathon! Features

Programming A Perfect Childhood Holiday Marathon!

December 19th, 2017 With 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...
Friday Five: The Best Marvel TV Moments of 2017 Friday Five

Friday Five: The Best Marvel TV Moments of 2017

December 8th, 2017 The 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...
Friday Five: Shows Set In the Eighties to Binge After 'Stranger Things'! Friday Five

Friday Five: Shows Set In the Eighties to Binge After 'Stranger Things'!

October 27th, 2017 TODAY, 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...
Exclusive: Interview with 'Lore' Creator Aaron Mahnke + WIN a Signed Book! Exclusives

Exclusive: Interview with 'Lore' Creator Aaron Mahnke + WIN a Signed Book!

October 18th, 2017 He'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...
GIF Crate: The Very Best of The Defenders! [Spoilers!] GIF Crate

GIF Crate: The Very Best of The Defenders! [Spoilers!]

September 12th, 2017 Summer'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...
Video Vault: When Droids Arrived on 'Sesame Street' Lists & Things

Video Vault: When Droids Arrived on 'Sesame Street'

August 29th, 2017 It'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...
Through Another Dimension: Our 'Twilight Zone' Marathon Picks! Features

Through Another Dimension: Our 'Twilight Zone' Marathon Picks!

July 3rd, 2017 It'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...
Watch List: Television You Should Be Watching this Summer! Lists & Things

Watch List: Television You Should Be Watching this Summer!

June 8th, 2017 Summer 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...
Find A New (TV) Home in ‘Midnight, Texas’ Exclusives

Find A New (TV) Home in ‘Midnight, Texas’

April 28th, 2017 Now 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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