Category: Television
The Uncannily Prophetic Eighty-Sixed
Last year, Cazzie David, the princess and heir to the throne of uncomfortable and neurotic scripted programming as a result of being Larry David’s daughter, [Read More…]
The Arrested Development Cast Dynamic Feels Ickier In Season 5: Or Bad Men Are Bad Dads, Too
“There are some moments that are hard to take back. Moments that create too great a shift in dynamics. An earthquake in a family that [Read More…]
She Might Have Been Living in A Bunker for Most of Her Life, But It Doesn’t Take Kimmy Very Long to Comprehend the Post-#MeToo Paradigm in Season 4, Part 1 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Wanting to break us off slowly for that final goodbye to the series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is being released in two parts for its fourth [Read More…]
There Are Actually Quite a Few Things Sex and the City Isn’t Dated About
As even Sarah Jessica Parker cowers to the juggernaut of gender fluidity and racial inclusivity that has rendered all pop culture offerings of the past [Read More…]
J.D. Salinger & Jessica Jones: “Mothers Are All Slightly Insane”
What is it about being a mother that so clearly seems to involve more intensity–more of a lifelong commitment to putting one’s needs after another’s–than [Read More…]
The Final Season of Love Reverts to Standard Happy Ending Mode
One of the things that made the Lesley Arfin/Paul Rust/Judd Apatow-created Love so engaging for its lack of engagement in the first season was that [Read More…]
Santa Clarita Diet S2: Humor Meets Hooey
As we continue to follow the detrimental consequences of recently undead Sheila Hammond’s (Drew Barrymore, who might never make up for that Crocs commercial) lust [Read More…]
Everything Sucks! Is Thorough In Its 90s Research But Doesn’t Quite Achieve What Stranger Things Does With the 80s As Its Less Put Upon Crutch
Because nostalgia is at such a premium in the present era of wanting to escape into the past when it is not merely one’s imagination [Read More…]
Dawson’s Creek Interpretations That Try Too Hard to Fit the Political Mold of Now on Its Twentieth Anniversary
With a number of “celebratory” “think pieces” out at the moment about Dawson’s Creek in honor of its twentieth anniversary, the current climate of needing to [Read More…]
Dancing to Phil Collins With Duct Tape: The Patrick Bateman/Andrew Cunanan Connection
As we enter further into the psychotic, drug-addled brain of Andrew Cunanan with each new episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace, one can’t help [Read More…]