Category: Television
Cassie Howard Proves the Jimmy Soul Adage, “If You Wanna Be Happy for the Rest of Your Life, Never Make a Pretty Woman Your Wife”
Now that Cassie Howard (Sydney Sweeney) has become “Cassie Jacobs”—as Nate (Jacob Elordi) was sure to emphasize on the limo ride back to their house [Read More…]
Beef Uses the “War” Between Millennials and Gen Z as Smokescreen for the Larger Issue at Hand
Sometimes, it’s difficult to decide which generation has it worse (though less so which is just plain worse): millennials or Gen Z. On the one [Read More…]
Beef Season 2’s Real Contention Isn’t Between People, But Between People and a System
While some might not remember, Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan aren’t strangers to acting with one another, having played somewhat contentious ex-lovers in the 2013 [Read More…]
Rachel (Maybe Not) Getting Married: Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
Of course, no one can say that the outcome of the series isn’t built right into the title, however, it’s difficult not to root/have higher [Read More…]
The Poetry of Tommy Shelby Working Toward Becoming the Ultimate Capitalist Until Finally Deciding to Burn It All (i.e., a Mound of Cash) to the Ground
When Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man was released, the phrase “money to burn” was given a whole new meaning. And one that was ripe with [Read More…]
RAYE’s “Click Clack Symphony” as Sex and the City Theme Song
Although Sex and the City of course already has a well-known and iconic theme song (composed by Douglas J. Cuomo and Tom Findlay), perhaps had [Read More…]
The Way Madonna’s Presence Looms Over Love Story: JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette
Out of all the women JFK Jr. was linked to, Madonna was undoubtedly the most “controversial.” Not just because, to Jackie O, she represented a [Read More…]
In Truth, The Love Story Version of Carolyn Bessette Is a Bit of Every Main SATC Character
In the days when Sex and the City fever was at its apex, arguably from 2000 to 2003, there was a common question thrown about. [Read More…]
Dawson Forever
When Dawson’s Creek first debuted in 1998, it set a new precedent for “teen drama.” One that, arguably, had been helmed by the short-lived but [Read More…]
The Season One Finale of I Love LA is the Pinnacle of Cirocco Dunlap’s “N.Y.C. to L.A. to N.Y.C. to L.A., Ad Infinitum”
In January of 2016 (otherwise known as: eleven months before the fall of America), a Shouts & Murmurs piece for The New Yorker by Cirocco [Read More…]