Category: Television
Penn Badgley Confirms What You Already Knew: It’s A Sexless, Sexless, Sexless, Sexless World
There are some who have speculated that we live in such a sexless time because of technology. Not just because porn made the transition to [Read More…]
Emily in Paris Season 3 Aims to Solidify Itself As the McDonald’s Version Sex and the City—While Promoting McDonald’s
It seems all too on the nose that the first episode of Emily in Paris’ third season would immediately bring McDonald’s into the formulaic equation. [Read More…]
Harry & Meghan: A Love Story Bogged Down by Family, Media and Racism
In the fifth episode of Harry & Meghan, the lyrics to Nina Simone’s “Do What You Gotta Do” play (which Kanye “Ye” West unfortunately repurposed [Read More…]
Class and Karma Collide in The White Lotus’ Second Season, Or: STD Party in Sicily
After a long viewer journey meant to cover a mere week in Taormina, Sicily (a.k.a. tourist kryptonite thanks to The Godfather being shot there), the [Read More…]
Tanya/Victoria: Jennifer Coolidge’s Pattern of Walking In On People She’s Not Supposed to See Having Sex
The line should no longer be, “A guy walks into a bar…” so much as, “Jennifer Coolidge’s character walks in on someone having better sex [Read More…]
Mother of the Misery Chicks: Wednesday Addams As the Forebear for Emily the Strange and Daria
There’s an episode in season one of Daria called “The Misery Chick.” In it, a former quarterback/golden boy who attended Lawndale High, Tommy Sherman, is [Read More…]
Softcore Gloom: The Gentrification of Wednesday Addams Includes Nods to Charmed, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Gilmore Girls and Harry Potter
Maybe it seems ironic to say that the character of Wednesday Addams has been “gentrified,” considering she’s no longer white. And sure, in Jenna Ortega’s [Read More…]
With A Callback to Addams Family Values, Wednesday Prompts Thanksgiving Revelers to Remember That It’s Still “Pilgrim World”
Being that Wednesday has arrived to Netflix just in time to capture the “Thanksgiving spirit,” it’s clearly no coincidence that, in episode three of the [Read More…]
Diana Is Saintly No More After Some Pronounced Charles Ass-Licking in The Crown Season 5
The unspoken norm, especially when it involves the martyrdom that comes with being dead, is that no one should speak ill of Princess Diana. Who [Read More…]
Unclear Why It’s Called AHS: NYC and Not AHS: AIDS
At a Pride performance called Finally Enough Love (in honor of the remix album of the same name) back in June, Madonna quipped, “One of the reasons [Read More…]
