Category: Television
Every Subject That Nobody Wants This “Illuminates” Already Happened on Sex and the City
As though to prove a point about Sex and the City’s long-lasting impact, Megan Thee Stallion recently appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon [Read More…]
Doreen Savage Gives Marty Mendelson A Run for His Dolls
On July 9, 2000, a theoretically small role in the “No Ifs, Ands or Butts” episode of Sex and the City left an indelible imprint [Read More…]
Naturally, Imposter Syndrome Is Tackled Through the Lens of “Being A Screenwriter” in Only Murders in the Building’s “Adaptation” Episode
When it comes to wanting to emulate a certain screenwriter, the biggest “douchebag cliché” veers toward Charlie Kaufman worship. In the screenwriting world, it almost [Read More…]
On Carrie Bradshaw Developing the Idea for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Although it’s easy to shit on Sex and the City in the present, there are occasional moments in the show when one realizes how truly [Read More…]
Fantasmas Takes Aim at the Ever Less Gradual Stamping Out of People Who Can’t (Or Won’t) “Prove Themselves” Digitally
In the opening scene of Fantasmas’ first episode, “Cookies and Spaghetti,” Julio (Julio Torres) is having a nightmare about filling out an online application that [Read More…]
Pee-Wee’s Playhouse + The Science of Sleep + The Mighty Boosh + Problemista + Kafka = Fantasmas
Many people still like to tout that we’re in the Golden Age of television, forgetting perhaps that, for much of the 2000s, a new wave [Read More…]
A Mean Girl With “Complexity”: Cressida Bitchface
It is both a difficult and rare thing to lend something like “depth” to the proverbial mean girl. More often than not, it simply isn’t [Read More…]
Eric: Change Comes From Within (Even If You’re Without A Puppet-y Shell)
Set during the time and place everyone loves to romanticize—New York City in the 1980s—Abi Morgan’s Eric isn’t your typical kidnapping story. But then, nor [Read More…]
SATC’s “Hot Child in the City” Predicted the Current Millennial/Gen Z “Mindset Swap”
As a show that gets continually reassessed in a harsh light with every “years later” rewatch, a batch of Gen Zers recently viewing Sex and [Read More…]
The Patrick Bateman-ness of a Pitbull String Arrangement Playing During A Sex Scene in a Carriage
By now, most everyone (who’s interested) has gotten through the first four episodes of Bridgerton’s third season (with the latter half to be released in [Read More…]