Category: Television
You Can’t Change Anything: Russian Doll Season 2
It was almost too prescient that a show about being stuck in a time loop should come out right before corona did. For Russian Doll’s [Read More…]
Bridgerton Season 2 Still Comes Through Despite a Physical Chasteness in Contrast to Season 1
While some viewers (including the type who buy bodice-ripping paperbacks at the grocery store) might have been initially miffed over the lack of sex that [Read More…]
Elizabeth Holmes As White Feminist Emblem
Easily comparable to Anna Delvey in many ways, what Elizabeth Holmes managed to do with her own scam was obviously much worse. For it put [Read More…]
The Dropout: Elizabeth Holmes Had More Game Than Anna Delvey
“Today we’re taking the first step to making health care accessible to everyone in this country.” That was probably Elizabeth Holmes’ initial mistake in terms [Read More…]
In Defense of Mrs. Maisel’s “Stagnation” in Season 4
There is all this constant pressure to “do” and “be” “more” as a human being. As though the very basic obligations of said title aren’t [Read More…]
Cold War Stereotypes Renewed: GLOW and the Russian Supervillain
American pop culture has always had a “ready-made” villain in the form of Russians (“those dirty Russians,” “fucking Russians,” etc.). Even as freshly as 2018’s [Read More…]
Anna Delvey: Another Bane for Millennial Representation That Reminds People How Much They Still Think Said Generation is “Worse” (Read: More Entitled) Than Gen Z
Because one of the most emblematic things of the millennial generation is pop culture-oriented retromania, it’s no wonder that the story of Anna Delvey, not [Read More…]
Nightmare Alley, “Girlboss’d” Edition: Inventing Anna
In an endless stream of the genre that ought to, at this point, be called “making sociopaths empathetic,” Shonda Rhimes’ latest hit, Inventing Anna, is [Read More…]
Samantha Jones Does Not Want to Meet for a Cocktail in Paris
There were so many injustices done to beloved characters throughout And Just Like That… (even the ones that aren’t hastily “offed” in the way Stanford [Read More…]
“London Samantha Jones” as a Composite of Edina and Patsy From Absolutely Fabulous
Maybe it’s not a coincidence that the word “fabulous” was bandied about so freely on Sex and the City. Maybe it was all light foreshadowing [Read More…]
