Comedy, Comics, Television
TV: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (Season 1)
On the one hand, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law playfully confronts the irradiated green elephant in the MCU’s room: its…
October 14, 2022-
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Comedy, FilmFilm: Authors Anonymous
Indie romcom Authors Anonymous (2014) has a very specific target audience, and as such might fly right over the…
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Comedy, Drama, TelevisionTV: Mo (Season 1)
Structurally and tonally, Netflix’s new comedy Mo bears a striking resemblance to Hulu’s Ramy – which isn’t surprising, given…
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Comedy, Comics, Fantasy, Film, Science FictionFilm: Thor: Love and Thunder
After bemoaning my frustrating inability to connect with massively popular properties like The Sandman, here comes Thor: Love and…
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Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, TelevisionTV: What We Do in the Shadows (Season 4)
What We Do in the Shadows cooks along through its fourth season, and if the strains of premise fatigue…
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Comedy, FilmFilm: Spin Me Round
Jeff Baena continues to deploy his talented troupe in his latest film, Spin Me Round (2022), an amusing anti-romcom…
September 11, 2022 -
Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Television, ThrillerTV: Better Call Saul (Season 6)
The task of successfully ending any beloved television series must surely be difficult enough. But when you’re Better Call…
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Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, TelevisionTV: Evil (Seasons 2 & 3)
Evil didn’t start out my favorite Michelle and Robert King project, but its stock is rising. It’s developed into…
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Comedy, Drama, Television, ThrillerTV: The Flight Attendant (Season 2)
With a premise decidedly not built to last, The Flight Attendant must have generated too much buzz not to…
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Comedy, TelevisionTV: Loot (Season 1)
I’ve admired Alan Yang’s comedy writing on Parks and Recreation, Master of None, and Forever, so it’s always welcome…
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Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, TelevisionTV: The Resort (Season 1)
In an incredible year of television, it’s impossible not to notice the pattern: the shows that speak to my…
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Comedy, Drama, TelevisionTV: The Bear (Season 1)
Amidst rumblings that the era of Peak TV may soon be on its way out (as streaming services scale…
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Comedy, Drama, FilmFilm: Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson’s films can be on the perverse side — almost always striking, compelling, and immersive, but often…
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Comedy, TelevisionTV: Hacks (Season 2)
The second season of HBO Max’s ribald comedy Hacks brings the series to a satisfying conclusion – or it…
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Comedy, Drama, TelevisionTV: The Good Fight (Seasons 4 & 5)
When we re-upped Paramount Plus recently, the series I was most anxious to resume was Michelle and Robert King’s…
July 19, 2022