Category: Television
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Daredevil: Gold
Marvel’s Daredevil series turns out to be even better than I first thought.
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Wet Hot
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp hits the right balance of high-concept stupid.
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The Tone Without Fear
A lifelong DC fan tries to make sense of the new Netflix Daredevil series
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They Alive, Dammit. It’s a Miracle!
I’ve never seen anything combine satire and celebration as brilliantly as Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
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Red Room Resolutions
How the Twin Peaks dream sequence brought about an unexpected but inspiring crisis of confidence.
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That Gum I Liked Has Gone Out of Style
A new appreciation of Twin Peaks spins totally out of control into an analysis of The X-Files, my long-standing hatred of the 1990s, and the unsettling realization that the series actually makes sense to me now.
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Hello M’Lady
How Inside Amy Schumer and Comedy Central have taught me that I’m a terrible person.
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How I Spent My Decade
Internet, did I ever tell you about the time I spent the better part of a decade watching a contrived, sentimental, raunchy, silly, and formulaic sitcom, and bawling my eyes out over it?
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A Country Boy Can Survive
on a multi-million dollar multimedia and merchandising agreement. A bit of faux-populism is more valuable than any number of duck calls.
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My Problem with The Big Bang Theory
An analysis of inequities of power, income, social status, and issues of representation in the popular media. “Holy shit, get a life”
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Everything Crashed Into the Cuckoo’s Nest
American Horror Story: Asylum is either awful with a few moments of brilliance, or brilliant in its awfulness. Or both. Or neither.
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The City That Never Blinks
Being a nerd, I have opinions about the Doctor Who mid-season finale, “The Angels Take Manhattan.”