2019 year in review

It’s officially 2020—but since some of you are lucky enough to have the first day of the new year off, we thought…

Another year has come and gone and with it so, so, so many nerd blogs. Here are the ones you, dear io9 readers,…

Star Wars has dominated much of the pop culture landscape in the past several years, but 2019 was ridiculous. With…

More than 260 billion people Wiki’d something or other in 2019, and the overwhelming majority of them apparently…

If there was any year to honor the youth, 2019 sure as hell would be it. Around the world this year, young people too…

While 2019 was filled with all sorts of content—television, movies, comic books, video games—that kept us busy,…

So many movies are just “fine.” Movies you sit down, watch, enjoy, and subsequently forget about. You don’t hate…

Nothing’s more disappointing as a kid than receiving a pair of socks for the holidays, and nothing is more…

So many great (and occasionally terrible) movies came out this year (more on them as a whole later this week), but…

The end of the year brings along with it a lot of things—snow (depending on where you live), gift-giving, too many…

The year 2019 was a lot. We got the end of not one, not two, but three of the biggest franchises of all time: A…

The Trump administration issued blow after blow to environmental protections this year. Sometimes, you couldn’t even…

It’s been a long year, we’re going to have some silly fun, dammit.

We may have already celebrated our favorite shows of the year, but that doesn’t mean we’re done looking back on…

You come into every year with the expectation of promise. Sometimes, things turn out the way you’d hoped. Sometimes…

Another year has come to an end, and we wouldn’t have gotten here without some pretty incredible comics to read…

You might have heard us say this once or twice already: there was a lot of television this year. We are but a few…

It’s been a year seemingly full of bad news, bad takes, and bad feelings. But pop culture was still there for…