Tag: Busy Philipps
Girls5eva Season 3 Explores the Struggle Between the Group’s Bid For Worldwide Fame and Simply Settling for the “Medium Time” Instead of the Big Time
If Girls5eva is seeking to achieve anything (apart from de-glamorizing late 90s/early 00s pop) in season three, it’s that, sometimes, “settling” is for the best. [Read More…]
Gen Z Is to Cady Heron as Millennials Are to Regina George, Or: Does Mean Girls 2024 Make Gen Z the New Queen Bee? Hardly.
For those who applaud it, any contempt expressed for the latest iteration of Mean Girls is likely to be met with the ageist rebuke of [Read More…]
Girls5eva De-glamorizes Late 90s/Early 00s Pop for a Tragicomic Effect
If anyone can get “complicated,” niche comedies greenlit, its executive producing duo Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. And while Girls5eva has the Fey stamp of [Read More…]
The Final Episodes of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Confirm That Analog Life Is Better (Or At Least Sweeter for Revenge)
Possibly only Tina Fey could turn the premise of a girl being locked in a bunker for fifteen years into kitschy comedic gold. That girl, [Read More…]
Mental Illness/Brain Injuries Don’t Quite Translate in New York Movies Not Set in the 80s: I Feel Pretty
Panned long before it ever had a chance to “charm” with its whimsy and throwback nature in terms of daffy New York 80s premises, I [Read More…]
