Category: Television
Cooking With Paris’ “Italian Night” Episode: A Study in How Money Can’t Buy Cultural Knowledge
There are, unsurprisingly, many issues with Paris Hilton’s latest foray into reality TV, Cooking With Paris, foremost of which is its proud parading of profligacy. [Read More…]
Cruel Summer and Death of a Cheerleader: Lessons in the Detriments of Obsessing Over the Popular Girl
It’s only fitting that a TV movie from the mid-90s about the damaging effects of socioeconomic self-comparison among high school students should be similar in [Read More…]
The Real Lesson of Mare of Easttown: Gun Control
The various dissections of Mare of Easttown may forever continue to unfold (as is the case with The Sopranos), which is somewhat ironic considering the [Read More…]
Mare of Easttown: Not A Great PSA For Pennsylvania Continuing to Be Seen as a State of Inbreedin’ Rednecks
While, for the most part, pretty much all of America can be accused of being decidedly redneck—except for those rare “city pockets”—Pennsylvania (even in spite [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #38: The Antithetical Act of Lady Gaga—“LGBTQIA+ Ally” and “Bona Fide New Yorker”—Appearing on Friends: The Reunion
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture… and all that it [Read More…]
Unabashed White Parade That Makes No Acknowledgement of Some Glaring Issues: Friends: The Reunion
We knew, of course, that any “reunion” (a.k.a. a payout opportunity of 2.5 million dollars each) with the cast of Friends was bound to be, [Read More…]
More, More, More (Cocaine and Orchids): Halston
“Reviews don’t matter.” But oh, of course they do—despite the oft-repeated insistence of Halston throughout the eponymous limited Netflix series brought to us by none [Read More…]
Lo Siento J. Lo, Selena: The Series Is Better Than Selena
For many reasons, Selena feels—particularly at this moment in time—like a rushed project. Pushed out at an extremely breakneck pace (considering the way the film [Read More…]
Saturday Night Live Reached Many Lows with Elon Musk as Host but Nothing Quite as Affronting as the Super Mario Bros. Sketch
One would think that with “the landscape” being what it is that, by now, all forms of racism would be deemed offensive and unacceptable. Saturday Night Live, and [Read More…]
Chadwick Boseman As an NFT Feels Decidedly Black Mirror
Whatever NFTs really are—for no one actually knows their purpose no matter how intricately the reason for them is described—the look of the one created [Read More…]
