I'm a bit on the fence, but my gut feeling is that an article principally about a pop-culture subject, should be mainly... pop-ish (to coin a term).
We are not an "academic" encyclopedia, we are supposed to be representative of the entire world, which is why we include our subjects warts.
I don't see any reason why this article should *not* mention academic criticism, keeping in mind that that represents a very tiny minority view of this subject. The simple fact that it's "academic and peer-reviewed" does not trump UNDUE. We solely defined that category for the purposes of RS, not related to UNDUE at all.
Will Johnson