Category: Television
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…]
Distorted Postcards From An American Terrorist in Paris
The most recent terrorist attack on Paris comes not in the form of a random knifing or driving a car through a crowded area, or [Read More…]
Ratched: A Show That Could Just As Easily Not Be Billed As Being About Nurse Ratched, So Much As One About Psychos in Positions of Authority in The Mental Health Industry
While Ryan Murphy does so love to make his shows centered around icons of pop culture, his latest series, Ratched, the supposed origin story of [Read More…]
Carrie Bradshaw Lives Inside The Matrix, Ergo New York Is The Matrix
Cogito, ergo sum. That’s the philosophical aphorism Descartes left us with. But no one said that just because you think, you’re actually delving into what’s [Read More…]
The Betty Broderick Story: A Study in Gaslighting and Its Psychological Effects
“Maybe he was afraid,” Berger’s friend tells Carrie. Carrie returns, “Interesting, how so?” His friend notes, “Women can get really angry.” Carrie retorts, “Well I [Read More…]
