Category: Television
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…]
The Case for Miley Cyrus and Pete Davidson Being the New Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper When It Comes to Project Promotion
Whenever there is a project to promote in the entertainment industry, a time-honored way to “generate buzz” has always been to get people speculating whether [Read More…]
The Asexual Crush of Gunther
Gunther from Friends has been called many things. Including, rightly so, the saddest character on television. And also, well, he’s been deemed very obviously gay. [Read More…]
Parasite and Squid Game: On the Two Biggest Things Out of S. Korea (as Far as America is Concerned) Speaking to Class Division
There is a message being repeated over and over. A loud and clear truth that no one—even after all that’s happened since both the “election” [Read More…]
Bitch Better Have My Money: Squid Game Affirms There’s Not Much Point in Living Without the Required Funds
As 28 Days Later deftly illuminates, human beings have an innate tendency to carry on even when every possible piece of evidence exists for them [Read More…]
