Category: Television
Framing Britney Spears Only Offers More of What We Already Know, While Shedding No Light On the Endless Amount That We Don’t
While many have been simply “agog” over a new episode–entitled “Framing Britney Spears”–of a show that no one previously watched before called The New York [Read More…]
Toxicity Addiction: Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope Season 2
When we left Aisling O’Dowd (Seána Kerslake) and Danielle Mullane (Nika McGuigan) at the end of Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope’s first season, they were suffering [Read More…]
Bridgerfuck: When It Comes to High Society Scandal, 1800s London Wins Over 00s NYC
The overt comparisons being made between Bridgerton and Gossip Girl are most certainly not without their validity. For Julie Andrews narrating as Lady Whistledown regarding [Read More…]
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s Final Season: The Light Is Coming To Give Back Everything the Darkness Stole, Or Is the Dark Coming To Give Back Everything the Lightness Stole?
As Ariana Grande once said, “The light is coming to give back everything the darkness stole.” But this mantra is the precise antithesis of what [Read More…]
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Takes Major Inspiration From Daria’s “Fizz Ed”
It seemed too unreal to believe in many ways. And yet, at the same time, a stark glimpse into an evermore reliant-upon-corporate-“sponsorship” future. Corporate socialism, [Read More…]
Blair Waldorf’s Bulimic Thanksgiving
In arguably one of the most classic Thanksgiving episodes of the five (and it’s rather staggering to consider that the show found Thanksgiving drama a [Read More…]
Wrestling With an Unfinished GLOW
Netflix can giveth and it can taketh away. That’s what we’ve all learned of late with its arbitrary axings in the face of budget demands [Read More…]
Queen Elizabeth’s Crown Falls on the Ground With the Spotlight-Stealing Women of the 80s: Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher
The highly anticipated fourth season of The Crown does not fail to deliver on the expected contentions and scandals of the decade, most of them [Read More…]
The Haunting of Bly Manor and the Reinforcement of Coupling Despotism
As far as adaptations of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw go, there is no shortage. And 1961’s The Innocents (co-written by Truman Capote [Read More…]
No Adjudication Needed: The Queen’s Gambit Wins the Brilliancy Prize
As a man who largely made his legacy out of “game” books (namely, The Hustler and The Color of Money), one of the few novels [Read More…]
