Category: Television
Further Proof That Carrie Bradshaw Is A Monster: The Horse Carriage Ride
The spotlight on the treatment of horses forced to cart plump tourists and pseudo-“influencers” looking to cultivate the “ultimate NYC experience” has ramped up again [Read More…]
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: The Sandman
With a total of seventy-five issues that were printed from 1989 to 1996, some might classify The Sandman as being among DC Comics’ “less influential” [Read More…]
If Only One Could “Piggyback” Like Eleven Instead of Getting on a Tin Can to Travel
With the fate of Hawkins and humanity at large at stake (as usual) as the final two movie-length episodes of Stranger Things 4 commence, the [Read More…]
Stranger Things and Petty Things: Still Caring About Personal Bullshit in an End-of-the-World Situation
There are a few instances in the final installment of Stranger Things’ fourth season that, as usual, provide an allegory for what’s happening in the [Read More…]
What’s Past Is Always Present: Life & Beth
“No one loves you like your mom. And no one hurts you like your mom.” This is the ultimate realization that comes at the end [Read More…]
Stranger Things Offers a New Addition to the High School Bitch Brigade, Or: There’s A Girl Like Angela In Every Decade
While there are many notable aspects about Stranger Things’ fourth season (including, of course, that Kate Bush moment at the end of “Dear Billy”), one [Read More…]
The More You Ignore Vecna, The Closer He Gets: Stranger Things 4
Just when you think Stranger Things couldn’t possibly top itself, in comes the fourth season with the most cinematic episodes of the series yet (hence, [Read More…]
The American Dream Requires the Suppression of All Reality–And So Does A Show About Angelyne
“The past is another country.” That’s certainly something Angelyne believes about Renee Goldberg, her Semitic self from long ago. In the eponymous show starring Emmy [Read More…]
Recapturing a Time and Place: The Vivid 90s-Era Zeitgeist Shifts in Pam and Tommy
Because every story from the (recent) past is rife for being dredged up again for the sake of a #MeToo-inspired slant, perhaps the tale of [Read More…]
When Betty Was Good
There are numerous mothers in pop culture history with a bad rap. Mrs. Bates, Mrs. White, Mrs. Vorhees. But Betty Draper (January Jones) might be [Read More…]
