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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster " Stay Out Of the Basement ," Ticketholders! Last year, I dedicated the month of October to R.L. Stine , when I reviewed the Fear Street  trilogy of movies , the late-90s Goosebumps  anthology series , the 2010s movies , and the first season of the 2023 Goosebumps  reboot . Today, I'm starting off February (for no thematic reason in particular; I just wanted to) with a look at the second season, subtitled The Vanishing . So don't worry; I didn't vanish on you (and I hope you won't vanish on me, either). I'd appreciate as always if you please remember to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, comment your thoughts on the second season of the  Goosebumps  reboot at the bottom of this post, help out my ad revenue so I don't get abducted by aliens, and follow me on  Tumblr ,  Reddit ,  Facebook ,  YouTube , and  LinkedIn  to like what you see and receive the latest ha...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster. I am not Steve! I have never played Minecraft . I will never play Minecraft . I will not watch the Minecraft movie. Lego for life! But I do like peaches , pandas , Tenacious D , and Goosebumps . Enough Jack Black references; it's time to stop being a Shallow Hal and get back to The Holiday ...by which I mean Halloween! I've given myself plenty of Goosebumps this R.L. Stine October , and it's time to also give my thoughts on the Goosebumps movies, which is fine to do on a Thursday instead of a Friday because nostalgia. So happy Throwback Thursday, happy TBT Anniversary, have a happy and Haunted Halloween , and please remember to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, comment your thoughts on the  Goosebumps  movies at the bottom of this post, help out my ad revenue so I don't accidentally end the world with stolen Stephen King manuscripts, and follow me on  Tumblr ,  Reddit ,  Facebook ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster I'm confused, Ticketholders. And disappointed in the lack of originality in visual media over the past few years. On top of the Fear Street trilogy and the TV series I'm reviewing today, I've also been watching the first season of Yellowjackets on Netflix because Paramount+ (like a broken floor scrubber) has a lot of buffering issues. All three are either set in or flash back to the 90s, and include a lot of the same songs and relationship dynamics (troubled same-sex couple, love triangle, toxic relationship, etc.). So the plot points and characters start to bleed together (heh; horror puns...) after awhile. But that doesn't make them bad products on their own merits. By my own actions, my merits (viewer analytics) have diminished significantly this month, so please remember to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, comment your thoughts on the Goosebumps reboot at the bottom of this post, help out my...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster Last week, I reviewed the 1995 Goosebumps TV series , the research for which informed me that, following his early work as "Jovial Bob" Stine , R.L. Stine received the recommendation to try writing horror for a teen audience, and so began writing the Fear Street  series, for which his wife, Jane Waldhorn , created Parachute Press as an intermediary publisher in their dealings with Scholastic (which now owns Parachute as part of the later resolution to Stine's contract dispute and falling out with the larger publisher-turned-multimedia company). So, I was Last Week Years Old when I learned that  Goosebumps  was actually Stine's second major book franchise, once he had figured out how to write horror for younger audiences and was asked to write another series that skewed younger than Fear Street . Because I was introduced to Stine's work at a younger age, I never got into Fear Street . And despite knowing the o...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster. Reviewer beware.... Welcome to Week Two of R.L. Stine October , Ticketholders! If you didn't guess from the byline, I'm reviewing Goosebumps today. Not the books (it's been twenty or thirty years since I read one), the Disney+ reboot (that's for the third week), or the movies (that's for Halloween). No, I'm reviewing the original 1995 series that ran for four seasons. So as the old tagline went, reader beware! And please remember to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, comment your favorite episode at the bottom of this post, help out my ad revenue so I don't have to steal a cursed artifact from that new shop that just opened up in town, and follow me on  Tumblr ,  Reddit ,  Facebook , and  LinkedIn  to like what you see and receive the latest hair-raising news on my content. I struggled with how to go about reviewing seventy-four episodes of content. I'm not ambitious or granular o...