Category: Television
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…]
The End of The F***ing World: Moonrise Kingdom With Murderous Rage
From the moment The End of the F***ing World opens with an emotionless James (Alex Lawther) sitting in a darkened room internally explaining, “I’m James, [Read More…]
Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope: The Me Without You of Irish Television
In every female friendship dynamic that has long ago reached a plateau largely for codependent reasons, there is one person in particular who has already [Read More…]
Class Envy: The Man Who Would Be Vogue vs. The Man Who Would Be FBI’s Most Wanted
With “The Man Who Would Be Vogue,” the first electrifying episode to kick off the second season of American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni [Read More…]
File Under Why God Why?: Celine Dion’s “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” Being Used in an Applebee’s Commercial
As though life was content to continue proving, “I will shit on everything you love,” Applebee’s use of the unspokenly sacrosanct power ballad that is [Read More…]
The Nora Ephron Sensibilities of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Once again speaking to the trend in pop culture of either reverting well into the past or much further into the future, one of the [Read More…]
Problems of the Present and Past Plague Black Mirror’s Increasingly Futuristic Season 4
“End fucking game!” So the sentiment of the very first episode, “USS Callister,” of Black Mirror season four indicates the collective desire to exit from [Read More…]
