NOC Recaps Arrow: A Battle He Was Always Going to Lose
WHAT A (MID-SEASON) FINALE!! There are definitely some parallels to previous mid-season finales: Malcolm Merlyn, a tense battle, a moment
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On the Radio: Representing People of Color in Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Bao Phi, Chaun Webster, and I talk race, brown folks, and whiteness on Minnesota Public Radio with Daily Circuit host
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Flash v Arrow: Dawn of Just Awesomeness
We conclude Flarrow Week at the NOC with our own special crossover featuring our Flash and Arrow recappers Constance Gibbs
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NOCs of the Roundtable: All the Flarrow Feels
Wow. It’s been two days since the epic crossover between The Fastest Man Alive and the Emerald Archer blew up
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NOC Recaps Arrow: A League of Their Own
*Mad props to my awesome Flarrow tag-team buddy Christelle for the subtitle. We are Flarrow. She’s The Flash, I’m Arrow
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NOC Recaps The Flash: Rainbows, Sunshine, and Flarrow Feels
You guys you guys you guys… IT’S HAPPENING. Some have been waiting for this crossover since the announcement this summer,
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Flash vs Arrow: Two Different Hero’s Journeys
The epic The Flash/Arrow crossover (henceforth called #Flarrow) is so close I can taste it! We’ve been getting teases all
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NOC Recaps Arrow: Shot Through the Heart
Seven episodes into season three of Arrow and one thing is clear: the universe that is being assembled on The
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Warner Brothers, You Have Failed This City
See, this is why Stephen Amell is my guy. We make no bones about the fact that we love DC’s
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NOC Recaps Arrow: Vigilante Soup
I want to go about recap this a little differently this week. We encountered a lot of vigilantes in tonight’s
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NOC Recaps Arrow: The Five Year Hacktivist Reunion
Arrow just keeps knowing it out of the park this season! This is the second Oliver-light episode of the season
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Forming the Pilot Episode: The Origins of a TV Nerd
What kind of nerd am I? A black girl nerd. A TV nerd. A Harry Potter nerd. A watch-all-three-Lord-of-the-Rings-Extended-Editions-in-one-weekend nerd.
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NOC Recaps Arrow: Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
The first four episodes of Arrow season three have been relentless in moving several plot lines forward. Ever since Canary’s
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NOC Recaps Arrow: Training Day
I can admit when I’m wrong. At the end of last week’s episode of Arrow, when it was revealed that
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NOC Recaps Arrow: Oh Sara, No Time is a Good Time for Goodbyes
After an action-packed season premiere, complete with a shocking twist ending, you knew the second episode — titled “Sara” —
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NOC Recaps Arrow: The Calm Before the Storm
We are definitely living in a golden age of superhero television. Last year, we dedicated an episode of Hard NOC
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Fall TV Nerd Problems
William Evans (@willevanswrites) of Black Nerd Problems joins Keith (@the_real_chow) and N’Jaila (@blasianbytch) to talk about this fall’s slate of
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Hooked on the Guardians of the Galaxy
The Nerds can’t stop talking about Guardians of the Galaxy! For this week’s Hard N.O.C. Life, the panel tackles the
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We’re Ready to Ride the Lightning with The Flash
At the beginning of the recently concluded television season, the creators of Arrow announced they were going to produce a
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Well, That’s What I Get for Watching S.H.I.E.L.D.
I should have known better. Shawn tried to warn me on several occasions, but I didn’t listen. After I got
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Keeping an Eye on Arrow
Almost Human may never come back. Sleepy Hollow is on hiatus. Who knows when Book Three of The Legend of
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Storm: An Excerpt from Diary of an AfroGeek
What follows is an excerpt from my new book, Diary of an AfroGeek. It will be released later this year. I’ll let
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Capes and Quivers: Superheroes on TV
Keith (@the_real_chow) brings on Rodrigo (@rscspokenword) and ODU prof ‘Shawn to talk about superhero televisions shows, specifically the upcoming Iron Fist
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