Tag: Jeffrey Tambor
On the Grinch Finally Being Vindicated For His Misanthropy
In the past couple of years, some variation on a meme that goes, “The older I get, the more I understand why the Grinch wanted [Read More…]
The Arrested Development Cast Dynamic Feels Ickier In Season 5: Or Bad Men Are Bad Dads, Too
“There are some moments that are hard to take back. Moments that create too great a shift in dynamics. An earthquake in a family that [Read More…]
Judith Light’s “Hand In My Pocket” Rivals Jeffrey Tambor’s “Somebody That I Used To Know”
As Maura in season one of Transparent, Jeffrey Tambor left viewers breathless (whether from admiration or shock) with his performance in the Trans Got Talent [Read More…]
Transparent, Season 3: No One Knows What They Want, But They Know It’s Not This
As Jill Soloway continues to develop the hopelessly fucked up characters and family dynamic of Transparent, it’s only natural that the trajectory of the plot [Read More…]
The Accountant Needed to Happen Just to Make the Profession Seem Less Dull
Maybe the only other profession as “unsexy” as accountant is paralegal. There’s very little room in the field to finesse into, shall we say, an [Read More…]
Inherited Trauma & Transparent Season 2
The traumas of our ancestors–their hardships, their psychological issues–live within us in a way that is perhaps too intense and uncanny for us to fully [Read More…]
Arrested Development Season 5: A Politically Tinged Version of Clue
While the enthusiasm for the Netflix-distributed fourth season of Arrested Development back in 2013 was somewhat marginal, that hasn’t stopped creator Mitchell Hurwitz from wanting to [Read More…]
Golden Globes 2016: More Interesting Than Last Year
Award shows can always go one of two ways: utterly drab or a complete shit show. In the case of this year’s Golden Globe Awards, [Read More…]
What Levels of Macabre Will Be Explored in Another 17 Episodes of Arrested Development?
With a Netflix-sponsored fourth season that revealed a no holds barred approach to plot and character twists, one might have supposed that any further exploration [Read More…]
What the 2015 Golden Globe Winners Say About American Pop Culture Right Now
The Golden Globes have continued to gain more recognition as an awards ceremony that isn’t merely a bastard precursor to the Academy Awards. As its [Read More…]