Category: Television
“The Junk Mail” Shows Why Everyone Suddenly So Concerned About USPS Now Shouldn’t Have Been A Dick To It Before
How ironic, looking back, that the founding of the Post Office (the only governmental agency specifically mentioned within the U.S. Constitution) should stem from the [Read More…]
The Suppression of Vanya Hargreeves’ Power As Allegory for Men Fearing Female Strength
In one of the many cruel ironies presented throughout The Umbrella Academy, the cruelest of all is the manner in which Number Seven a.k.a. Vanya [Read More…]
The Umbrella Academy: A Hodgepodge of Dark and Watchmen
Time travel and the notion of being perpetually stuck in the Gordian knot of a temporal loop seems to have only risen in popularity in [Read More…]
Taylor Swift’s Inez/Betty/James = David Lynch’s Laura/Donna/James
While the “cognoscenti” of the few remaining New York-based pop culture “publications” would like to believe “Betty” is now an undeniable part of the “queer [Read More…]
Sexual Assault Sleuthing Doesn’t Always Lead to Ego Death: I May Destroy You
Just when you thought millennials might have been finito with bum-rushing the spotlight to secure their “me me me” place in the sun, Michaela Coel [Read More…]
The AIDS Effect on Hollywood Paranoia Reaches a New, More Fear-Inducing Level With Corona
While the notion of AIDS being “shocking” or even (as) stigmatized in the present drifts ever further into the ether of the past (the 1980s [Read More…]
13 Reasons Why Season 4: Degrassi Meets 90210 Meets An Almost Thankfulness That School Is Now Remote
Of course, looking back at any high school show now, the problems that stemmed from being among people (all unavoidable assholes, especially with the strange [Read More…]
I Can See Your Halo: Warrior Nun
While Sister Shannon Masters might have remained as the central figure of Ben Dunn’s manga-style comic book series, Warrior Nun Areala, audiences watching the Netflix [Read More…]
God Is Time… And A Fucked Up Family Tree: Dark
While the genre of time travel in film is robust, including everything from Donnie Darko to 13 Going on 30, there has possibly never been [Read More…]
Millennial Horror Show: Search Party Season 3
At one point early on in the third season of Search Party, District Attorney Polly Danziger (Michaela Watkins) tells her assistant prosecutor, “Everything I hate [Read More…]
