Category: Television
The Death of the 90s in the Span of a Week: Keith Flint, Luke Perry & the Release of Leaving Neverland
Despite the steady and constant stream of 90s nostalgia that has kept Urban Outfitters afloat for the past decade, the actual death of all the [Read More…]
Dylan McKay: The Last of the Moody Heterosexual Male Tropes
It was roughly around the time of 1995 (also, incidentally, the same year Luke Perry left Beverly Hills 90210 to pursue “other projects”) that the [Read More…]
The Frances Ha Philosophy of Soul Mates in My Brilliant Friend
Perhaps in some way it’s no coincidence that Frances Ha (with Lady Bird secretly serving as the eponymous character’s origin story) was released to theaters [Read More…]
Olivia Colman Forgot to Thank Sophie Chapman for Leading Her to Effectively Play a Queen Bitch
A complex, more than slightly emotionally unstable heroine that makes multiple people vie for her affections? Well, of course that was what Sophie Chapman was [Read More…]
That Moment When Your Old Self Would Be Ashamed of Your New Self
There is a famed, cringe-worthy moment in the first episode of the fourth season of Sex and the City (“The Agony and the ‘Ex’-tacy”) in [Read More…]
Baby: Gossip Girl Italiano
Just as the rich and therefore troubled teens of the Upper East Side on Gossip Girl, the second Netflix original series set in Rome (the [Read More…]
Life Is Like A Box of Timelines, You Never Know Which One You’re Gonna Get: Russian Doll
No coincidence that Russian Doll is just in time for Groundhog Day, the Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland-created series plays into all of [Read More…]
The Final Episodes of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Confirm That Analog Life Is Better (Or At Least Sweeter for Revenge)
Possibly only Tina Fey could turn the premise of a girl being locked in a bunker for fifteen years into kitschy comedic gold. That girl, [Read More…]
Not To Excuse Sociopathy, But Guinevere Beck Is Kind of a Dumb Bitch: Or Dan Humphrey Always Goes for Serena Van Der Woodsen
As most writers can’t help but make themselves the underlying center of whatever narrative they manage to churn out in these times so balking at [Read More…]
Broad City Season 5 Premiere “Stories” Rivals 2015 Episode “The Matrix” for Its Social Media Statement
Because no Broad City viewer is any stranger to a birthday premise on the show by now, Ilana (Ilana Glazer) announces in a sing-song voice [Read More…]
