One of the most common comments about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is that it feels like fanfic, a description that is often unfairly used to denote bad writing. In this case, it means something ...

Halfway through the first episode of “Fate: The Winx Saga,” I realized exactly why it felt so familiar. The new Netflix series follows Bloom (Abigail Cowen), a bright-eyed, redheaded American fairy ...

Recently, I was browsing through Instagram when I discovered a movie titled The Idea of You that closely resembled fanfictions about singer-songwriter Harry Styles. Curious, I researched a bit and ...

It’s been a month since Netflix’s K-Pop Demon Hunters took the internet by storm, thrusting us into a world of, well, demon-hunting K-Pop music. The fever is not subsiding; at the time of writing, the ...

Like Stonehenge or the works of Shakespeare, we’ll probably never know who was behind “My Immortal” — the massive Harry Potter–inspired text that is widely regarded as the worst piece of fanfiction ...