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The big question to be answered in the inaugural Unironic Watch Reviews article is whether the name of the site itself is un- or just ironic. Meaning: by naming the site Unironic Watch Reviews, does that actually mean that the reviews are meant to be layered in irony? By specifically calling out that the site consists of something explicitly unironic, one could sensibly make the connection that its use in the name is sarcastic; by calling this site Unironic Watch Reviews, one can get a chuckle out of how insincere the reviews themselves actually are. Alternatively, by explicitly saying that the site is made up of un -ironic watch reviews, the editors could be appealing to their readers a priori: these are not jokes; this is sincere. Arguably (and anything is arguable, even though not everything is debatable-with-a-straight-face), the worst situation would be an ambiguous one. As David Foster Wallace argues in his 1993 essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", iron...