Category: Television
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…]
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…]
