Category: Television
Season Three of 13 Reasons Why Aims to Humanize the Sexual Assaulter, Speaks to A Larger Devolution of #MeToo
Because there seems to be a certain expiration date on how long women can act “uppity” about being treated like second class citizens (this perhaps [Read More…]
Jessica Jones, Season 3: A Nod to the Most Unique Masochists of All–The Ones Who Stay in NYC
There are two factions of NYC residents: those who leave and those who stay. Those who declare their undying devotion for it and those who [Read More…]
The Russians Own the American Mall & Other Politicisms in Stranger Things 3
The mall in the 1980s was not just “a place to go” or “something to do,” so much as hallowed ground where one could see [Read More…]
Black Mirror Series 5 Really Wants You to Know Your Media Addictions Are Fucked
Parsed down to just three episodes this season (as it was in the first two series) on the heels of its movie iteration, Bandersnatch, Black [Read More…]
True Love, the Source of and Cure for Mental Illness in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Standing alone in the musical stalker genre of both television and film, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend‘s heroine, Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), came a long way from season [Read More…]
The Bellagio Will Go On: Céline Dion’s Carpool Karaoke Episode Will Make You Laugh, Cry & Try to Assess Where Her Shoe Warehouse is Located
For those who have forgotten just how “wacky” Céline Dion can be (even though it wasn’t that long ago that her commercial for Célinununu, her genderless [Read More…]
A Friendship Based on Trauma Bonding Grows in Laguna: Dead to Me
When you’re young, friendship forms rather easily, seemingly apropos of nothing. There isn’t discernment beyond being in the same age group. That is, until the [Read More…]
Derry Girls Combines Everyone’s Favorite Elements: 90s Nostalgia and Irish Brogues, All Coming Together to Remind Us Why Brexit Shouldn’t Happen
“Why do people get so sentimental about old people? They’re arseholes,” says Derry girl Michelle Mallon (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell) at the funeral of Erin’s (Saoirse-Monica Jackson) [Read More…]
(Mis)carried Away No More: Fleabag Season 2 Puts an End to the Show And Our Heroine’s Usual Histrionics
After waiting four long years (almost as long as we had to wait for another Marina album–what is it with those U.K.-born women and letting [Read More…]
The Theory That Ms. Wardwell and Ms. Barch Are the Same Demonically Possessed Feminist Teacher
When it comes to female teachers who have had it up to well past their ovaries with male disappointment, Daria‘s Janet Barch (voiced by Ashley [Read More…]
