Category: Television
One Thing I Love About The Good Place
The Good Place silently rejects decades of “white by default” in favor of showing what heaven is really going to be like.
The Right People
About the return of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and the creepy complexities of nerd ownership
Violent Delights
The end of Westworld’s first season has felt like a series of reveals for the sake of having reveals. This post is packed full of unmarked spoilers.
Electric Sheep
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.
1984 Upside Down, or, Use Your Allusions
Stranger Things would still be pretty great if it were just a shameless pastiche of 80s movies, but it ends up transcending that.
They Alive, Dammit. It’s a Miracle!
I’ve never seen anything combine satire and celebration as brilliantly as Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Red Room Resolutions
How the Twin Peaks dream sequence brought about an unexpected but inspiring crisis of confidence.
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.