Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy was released by Netflix on June 22 and it was quite a rollercoaster. …

I was a very mild teenager. I didn’t drink, smoke, go to parties, or do anything wild, really. And for the most part, I was pretty happy with my life. But according to all the teen-centered media that tells us that those are the things that teenagers are supposed to…

From roughly 2010–2014, dystopian YA was all the rage. Rising political tensions, war and a recession from the previous decade had curdled into the rise of the dystopian genre: where horrifyingly oppressive governments committed grave atrocities against the people they were supposed to protect, leaving it to teenagers (who were…