Category: Television
The Arrangement Signals the Return of Nighttime Trash TV
With ABC and NBC focusing of late (like maybe the past twentyish years) on the notion of “quality” TV (you know Jane the Virgin, The [Read More…]
Leave Spring Breakers Alone
Arguably the most unexpectedly political film of 2012 for its uncensored statement on American culture that has only continued to prove more accurate, Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers [Read More…]
Not Mad About Penelope Cruz Being Cast as Donatella in Versace: American Crime Story
After the bullet of Lady Gaga trying to inhabit the fabuloso essence of Donatella Versace got nixed because of her “busy schedule,” many in the [Read More…]
Frances Ha(lladay) & Carrie Bradshaw: Two Women Who Iterate That Traveling Alone Blows
“There’s nothing better than traveling alone,” most men will tell you. Emphasis on men. And the women who try to tell you the same are [Read More…]
Ilana Glazer Proves to Be the Opposite of Her Broad City Character By Getting Married
An undercover secret to many until now, Broad City‘s beloved Ilana Glazer–who plays the similarly named Ilana Wexler–has gone and gotten herself hitched to longtime [Read More…]
At the Crux of Feud Is the Necessary Collaboration of Bette Davis & Joan Crawford to Take Down the Filmic Patriarchy
Feud‘s debut has not only sparked delight over another American Horror-esque format for creator Ryan Murphy (the series will next focus on the contentious relationship [Read More…]
Daria, Still A Misanthropic Goddess 20 Years Later, Was Probably Also the Modern Originator of White Girl Problems
While the term “white girl problems” was at one time a cute and dismissive way to make fun of how often white girls complain of [Read More…]
The Young Pope: Presenting Pope Pius XIII as the Donald Trump of the Vatican
“Fanaticism is love. Anything else is just a surrogate.” So asserts Lenny Belardo a.k.a. Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law) to his constituency of cardinals as he [Read More…]
Weight Loss Isn’t the Goal With the Santa Clarita Diet
Perhaps only Drew Barrymore could make tearing into human flesh with a plucky bite come across as mildly endearing. Or at least watchable. In the [Read More…]
Zelda & F. Scott: The Bonnie & Clyde of The Literary World in Z: The Beginning of Everything
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” For Zelda Sayre, the heart, apparently, could hold infinite amounts of tolerance [Read More…]
