Category: Television
Reflecting on the “Scandalous” Ads For Gossip Girl on Its Ten-Year Anniversary
When Gossip Girl‘s first episode aired on September 19, 2007, the Bush-drenched United States could never have anticipated just how “scandalous” the ads promoting the [Read More…]
Broad City Ribs Off Sliding Doors for Its 2011-centric Season Four Premiere
Who in New York isn’t constantly wondering what their life might be like if they hadn’t just missed the train–or, vice versa, missed the train to avoid [Read More…]
The Simple Life as Blueprint for Borat, Ire for Rich White Girls
The Simple Life was not exactly lauded critically in its time. It had a larger viewership at the outset, sure, with thirteen million viewers tuning [Read More…]
Friends From College Proves People Who Went to Harvard Are Bigger Losers Than You Are
There’s something to be said for lifelong camaraderie, sure. There’s something else to be said for clinging to toxic friendships you know are only making [Read More…]
Love Season 2 Gets Real About the Psychosis Behind Being Fucked Up About Men
Not everyone is capable of being “healthy” in their approach to dealing with relationships, most certainly not women with any sort of daddy issues (generally [Read More…]
Trump to Be A Four-Letter Word in Broad City Season 4
If anyone could innovate a way to approach the sore subject that is Donald Trump, it would be the brilliant fused minds of Ilana Glazer [Read More…]
Lindsay Lohan in Sick Note: Hopefully Like A Spinoff of What Happened to Annie James From The Parent Trap
Lindsay Lohan’s commitment to all things European, especially faulty accents of no distinct nature, has reached a new plateau with her first acting gig since [Read More…]
I Love Dick & The Anathema Concept of Man as Muse
Jill Soloway, always to be counted on for her impressionistic stylings (see: any of those Berlin flashbacks in season two of Transparent), is perhaps the [Read More…]
Twin Peaks: The Return Brings A Heightened Twist of Darkness to David Lynch’s Grasp & Love of Americana
“If there’s one thing you should know about me, Ray, it’s that I don’t need anything. I want.” So reminds Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) in [Read More…]
The Best Part of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 3? Its Mockery of Wokeness
By now, even your 85-year-old grandma is familiar with the unfortunate term, “stay woke.” It’s a vague phrase intended to encompass everything from not gender [Read More…]