Alex Cranz

Senior Consumer Tech Editor. Trained her dog to do fist bumps. Once wrote for Lifetime. Tips encouraged via Secure Drop, Proton Mail, or DM for Signal.
  • Supergirl Has A Mon-El Problem

    Supergirl Has A Mon-El Problem

    While many blogs were devoted to CW’s PR passion for Superman before the season started, we all should have been more worried about Supergirl’s new beau, Mon-El. Chris Wood infuses secret prince Mon-El with tremendous charm, and plays the transformation from space-bro to woke dude with entertaining gusto. And he’s an enormous problem.


  • Supergirl Just Had A Super Frigid Surprise Cameo

    Supergirl Just Had A Super Frigid Surprise Cameo

    It seems a little weird that a show about a bunch of aliens integrating on Earth would focus primarily on something as culturally specific as Valentine’s Day, but that’s what Supergirl did! The show also used the opportunity to introduce one of Super-canon’s best villains: Mr Mxyzptlk. But the fifth-dimensional imp/British man wasn’t the episode’s…


  • Why These ‘Revolutionary’ ’80s Gadgets Totally Failed

    Why These ‘Revolutionary’ ’80s Gadgets Totally Failed

    Besides bad hair, pleated jeans and 21 Jump Street, the ’80s brought us a remarkable technological revolution. Nintendo changed the living room forever with the introduction of the NES in 1985. IBM, Apple and the Commodore 64 ushered the personal PC into our lives. Even the internet breathed a few gasps of air with NFSNet…