Category: Television
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…]
Landscapers Proves the MARINA Adage, “Hollywood Infected Your Brain”
It’s amazing how much fantasy—a tool of survival and self-preservation—can betray a person after too long spent in that false world. Landscapers is very much [Read More…]
Insecure Becomes Its Most Sex and the City Yet
Although it would be deemed sacrilege by most women (Black or otherwise) to reduce Insecure to being “another Sex and the City” (when, in fact, [Read More…]
Post-COVID Paris, Qu’est-ce Que C’est?: Emily in Paris, Season 2
By trying to be more “aware” that it’s selling a farce of a fantasy the second time around, Emily in Paris aims to win more [Read More…]
You Do It to Yourself, You Do. And That’s What Really Hurts: Why The Shrink Next Door Is So Hard to Watch
Marty Markowitz (Will Ferrell) is not the type of person we’re supposed to feel bad for. Throughout the duration of The Shrink Next Door, an [Read More…]
Advertising and Fan Fiction Soar to New Heights With Peloton and Mr. Big
It’s happened many times before, most recently with Timothée Chalamet playing the spawn of Edward Scisscorhands, Edgar Scissorhands, for the sake of promoting a self-driving [Read More…]
Only Social Suicides in the Building: Gossip Girl 2.0’s First Season Hopes to be As Much of a Time Capsule as the Original
Being that the entire purported reason behind rebooting the 00s staple that is Gossip Girl was to set its technology in the modern era, it [Read More…]
