Category: Television
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…]
Brenda in Adventures in Babysitting as Precursor to Barb in Stranger Things
Considering the thoroughness with which Stranger Things strives to appear as a show directly out of the 80s, it’s not remarkable that the inspiration for [Read More…]
Tell-Tale Heart Syndrome in Search Party Season 2: What Happens When the Problems You Thought You Wanted Become Real
When the finale of Search Party‘s first season “aired” back in November of 2016, viewers were met with a denouement very unlike any they’d ever [Read More…]
Attempting to Appeal to Straights: The Downfall of the Trixie and Katya Show
Drag queens aren’t—nor will they ever be—renowned for not being completely and totally amenable to corporate whoredom. That’s what they strive for, in fact. The [Read More…]
Chuck Bass & Ed Westwick Converge Into One in the Wake of Rape Allegations
Season one of Gossip Girl was scandalous for a number of reasons, not least of which was its ad campaign. More than just highlighting bored [Read More…]
