Category: Television
A Friendship Based on Trauma Bonding Grows in Laguna: Dead to Me
When you’re young, friendship forms rather easily, seemingly apropos of nothing. There isn’t discernment beyond being in the same age group. That is, until the [Read More…]
Derry Girls Combines Everyone’s Favorite Elements: 90s Nostalgia and Irish Brogues, All Coming Together to Remind Us Why Brexit Shouldn’t Happen
“Why do people get so sentimental about old people? They’re arseholes,” says Derry girl Michelle Mallon (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell) at the funeral of Erin’s (Saoirse-Monica Jackson) [Read More…]
(Mis)carried Away No More: Fleabag Season 2 Puts an End to the Show And Our Heroine’s Usual Histrionics
After waiting four long years (almost as long as we had to wait for another Marina album–what is it with those U.K.-born women and letting [Read More…]
The Theory That Ms. Wardwell and Ms. Barch Are the Same Demonically Possessed Feminist Teacher
When it comes to female teachers who have had it up to well past their ovaries with male disappointment, Daria‘s Janet Barch (voiced by Ashley [Read More…]
Don’t Drag Women to Hell–Unless They Want to Be: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 2
If season one of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina was about a “meek” little mortal coming to terms with her witchhood on her sixteenth birthday, season [Read More…]
Santa Clarita Diet Season Three Posits The Rarely Credited Theory That Love Can Literally Last Forever
While it’s not yet known if Netflix will greenlight a season four (suddenly somehow cognizant of all the money they’ve been shelling out without much [Read More…]
Broad City’s “Along Came Molly” Waxes on the Phenomenon of Becoming Irrelevant in NY After One’s Mid-Twenties
As though to drive home the point of just how palpable the void is going to be with regard to an accurate depiction of the [Read More…]
Broad City Continues to Shatter the Myth of Living (Forever) in NYC Established by Sex and the City
Though Gossip Girl might have long ago been ahead of the curve on wielding Sleep No More as a plot device (in the 2011 episode [Read More…]
The Death of the 90s in the Span of a Week: Keith Flint, Luke Perry & the Release of Leaving Neverland
Despite the steady and constant stream of 90s nostalgia that has kept Urban Outfitters afloat for the past decade, the actual death of all the [Read More…]
Dylan McKay: The Last of the Moody Heterosexual Male Tropes
It was roughly around the time of 1995 (also, incidentally, the same year Luke Perry left Beverly Hills 90210 to pursue “other projects”) that the [Read More…]