Television
CategoryIn Defense of “The Goop Lab”
But for God’s sake, do not under any circumstances insert anything you buy off the internet into your most sacred of sacred spaces.
2018 British Arrows, at the Walker Art Center, Commercialize Hope (We’ll Take It)
“Christmas is not only getting too commercial, it’s getting too dangerous.”
Those words from A Charlie Brown Christmas floated back to ..
Places Nick and Raven Could Have Gotten It On
A deer stand
A flu-ridden ball pit at a McDonald’s PlayPlace
A salon floor covered in freshly shorn hair
The cow-birthing pen at ..
“Binge” Explores Eating Disorders with Humor
Between shows like Broad City, Insecure and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, it’s been a good couple years for comedies that explore the more painful,..
An Update on Daytime TV for All You 9-5-ers
A few months ago, I decided to go freelance. Not trying to be all “I QUIT MY DAY JOB TO BE AN ARTISTE, BUT IT’S ACTUALLY WAY HARDER TH..
My Requests for Who Will Replace Michael Strahan on “Kelly and Michael”
Live! with Kelly and Michael is important to me. It symbolizes getting to wake up when you want and have your coffee with your cat/dog whi..
A Eulogy for America’s Next Top Model
The fierce and sometimes bootyful reality television series America’s Next Top model was pronounced dead today via a tweet by its creator ..
Mr. Robot – A Good Show or a Great Show?
You’re going to hear a lot of big names when you first hear about USA’s first-ever golden-era show, Mr. Robot. Kubrick. Fight Club. Ch..
Why The Sopranos is Still the Goldenest Show of The Golden Age of T.V.
In the pilot episode of The Sopranos, a family of ducks turns out to be an important key to unlocking anxiety-ridden mobster Tony Soprano’..
TV reboots to follow “Fuller House”
Differenter Strokes
Seventysomething
The Cosbyless Show
The Less Fresh Prince
For Whom the Saved Bell Tolls
Murder, She Blo..
How an “Empire” moment almost got me suspended from college in 1995
In our sophomore and junior years at Boston University, my roommate and I lived in Myles Standish Hall. For our junior year we had a magni..
Ten ways to occupy your Monday nights after this season of “The Bachelor” ends
Make a regular Monday night appointment with a therapist, to explore whether, when it comes to your life in general, you’re “here for the ..