Category: Television
Even The New York of the 60s Feels Stale In Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3–Or Is It Just the New York-centric Jokes?
There is something to be said for the fact that when Miriam Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) finally manages to take her act outside of New York, [Read More…]
Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special Is Laughing at Kacey Musgraves’ Idea of “Camp”
Generally met with unanimous praise for its blending of self-awareness, nostalgia and paying “campy” respect to the past by doing a sendup of it (all [Read More…]
“The 80s Will Live on Forever”–Unfortunately Freshest in People’s Minds in the Version Presented in the Finale of AHS: 1984
Seeing as how the ninth season of American Horror Story—1984—started out with such satirical wryness, maybe it can be no surprise that it had to [Read More…]
Coffee Shops & Ominous Stalkers: Twin Peaks Flavor Takes Hold of The End of the Fucking World’s Gripping Second Season
The last time we saw then seventeen-year-olds James (Alex Lawther) and Alyssa (Jessica Barden), things had taken more than just a slight turn for the [Read More…]
Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin Comes to Life in Living With Yourself
Self-hate is almost an even stranger animal in the twenty-first century. For it’s so intrinsically linked to narcissism and the constant need to compare oneself [Read More…]
Baby’s Second Season is Another Look at the Italian Dilemma with the Madonna/Whore Complex
When last we left the Gossip Girl-like lives of Chiara Altieri (Benedetta Porcaroli) and Ludovica (Alice Pagani), they had gotten in too deep at Mirage, [Read More…]
The Merciful Return of January Jones as a Blacked Out Housewife
While January Jones may have played the bizarre role of Melissa Shart in the equally bizarre cancelled Fox series (because you usually can’t say Fox [Read More…]
The Politician Oozes Royal Tenenbaums Absurdity–And Not Just Because Gwyneth Paltrow Is In It
With the cautionary opening title card, “The Politician is about moxie, ambition and getting what you want at all costs. But for those who struggle [Read More…]
Betty Draper’s Twilight Sleep and Its Relation to Lana Del Rey’s “Shades of Cool” Video
Jake Nava’s direction of music videos over the years has often favored a suburban milieu with a seedy underbelly. From Lindsay Lohan’s “Over” video to [Read More…]
In AHS: 1984, The Decade of Excess is Nothing to Romanticize
Every time you think Ryan Murphy and co-writer/creator Brad Falchuk couldn’t possibly come up with another concept for American Horror Story, lo and behold, we [Read More…]
