Category: Television

HBO’s Westworld is as much of a post-millennial meta-textual exercise as the original was a 1970s fear-of-technology thriller. That doesn’t mean it has nothing to say, though. Spoilers for the first three episodes.

Stranger Things would still be pretty great if it were just a shameless pastiche of 80s movies, but it ends up transcending that.

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp hits the right balance of high-concept stupid.

I’ve never seen anything combine satire and celebration as brilliantly as Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

How the Twin Peaks dream sequence brought about an unexpected but inspiring crisis of confidence.

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.

How Inside Amy Schumer and Comedy Central have taught me that I’m a terrible person.

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?