How ‘Girls’ and ‘Broad City’ Channel the Gawd Larry David
Larry David is the king of living out his fantasies on screen. Not sexually—well, then again he probably did once fantasize about having sex with a Palestinian woman—but primarily with respect to telling people when he thinks they’re being assholes. In line at Starbucks, in traffic, playing golf, eating dinner…the… [Read More]
NFL Playoffs, Golden Globes, Downton, Girls: I Watched 11 Straight Hours of TV Yesterday
Yo, yesterday was a crazy day of TV. At 10:56pm the Golden Globes gave out its final award, Best Picture, to 12 Years a Slave, a great movie that I haven’t seen yet because my family didn’t want to watch something so heavy during the holidays. Like the movie itself,… [Read More]
Frances Ha, Queen of New York
These days I’m so eager to share information. It’s the information age, they say, so I guess that’s quite all right. While I watched Frances Ha, I couldn’t help but make a mental list of all the people in my life that I needed to share this film with. My… [Read More]
Why Guys Can Relate to ‘Girls.’ The Show.
This season of Girls tested the limits of its viewership in a way no series before it has done. Lena Dunham placed her characters in strange, cringe-worthy, and straight up outrageous situations, then no doubt watched closely to see how we’d react. Jessa built off of her immature and premature… [Read More]
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