Let’s Talk About HBO’s ‘The Jinx’ Now
Obligatory spoiler alert for the commentary below but if you are, indeed, alerted and averted by the presence of spoilers, go and watch The Jinx right now and then come back and read this. It’ll only take about five hours, which you clearly have time for since DST just happened…. [Read More]
Choosing the Next President Using ‘House of Cards’ Quotes
Last season, House of Cards taught us about the Vice Presidency, but the third season has endeavored to teach us what kind of person it takes to be the president. With the general election coming up next year, the rich white men of this country really have to start thinking… [Read More]
A Ginsburg Discusses Ginsburned
An open letter to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the SNL writers, Last Saturday, SNL debuted a new catchphrase on Weekend Update: Ya Ginsburned! Kate McKinnon, as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “ginsburned” everyone from Hobby Lobby to Madonna, as part of a sketch that recapped Justice Ginsburg’s recent dissent from the Supreme… [Read More]
Drunk Movie Review: ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
I learned a lot in my first DMR – for example, don’t get wasted and see your movie at 8 PM on the Saturday of opening weekend, unless your end goal is bothering literally dozens of people who don’t deserve it. I took that learning and decided to take a day… [Read More]
Saying Goodbye to ‘Parks and Rec,’ TV’s Happiest Comedy
Tonight, probably the most feel-good comedy on TV will air its one hour finale. Parks and Recreation’s seventh and final season has gone by uncomfortably fast, with two new episodes a week and a minimal 13 overall that have quickly tied up most loose ends and set up the final… [Read More]
What I’ve Learned from ‘Say Yes to the Dress’
I am 26 years old and I have never been to a wedding. I have been to four funerals, but no weddings. Four Funerals and a Wedding: The Hannah Teplitsky Story. I don’t even have the correct kind of FOMO because I have no real idea of what I’m missing… [Read More]
Searching for a Bad Boy? Don’t Look in This Year’s “Best Pictures”
When the Academy Award nominations were announced last month, people found plenty of things to be mad about. No Ava DuVernay listed between Wes Anderson and Alejandro González Iñárritu for Best Director. No African-American actors, or female directors and screenwriters, nominated for the first time since 1999. And – perhaps… [Read More]
What Has Turd Ferguson Been Up To?
The SNL 40th anniversary special was Sunday night and it was a reminder that if you take all of the most entertaining people on the planet and put them in one building, you have a puncher’s chance of making a few hours of good television. Of all the iconic SNL… [Read More]
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]
What Virgins and Cookies Can Teach Today’s Dramatic TV
I have a confession to make. I have recently overdosed on DDD. You know the drug, even if you don’t recognize the street name. It has kept you up until the early morning hours: you not even noticing how much time has gone by until you turn toward the sunrise,… [Read More]
