
TV: Casual (Season 4)
Casual, Hulu’s quirky saga of a dysfunctional Southern California family, ends with its fourth and best season, providing uncommonly…
August 28, 2018Casual, Hulu’s quirky saga of a dysfunctional Southern California family, ends with its fourth and best season, providing uncommonly…
August 28, 2018Moving into its third cringe-filled season, Casual continues on its awkward, darkly comic way. While the increasingly unlikeable behavior…
October 1, 2017To a degree, there’s an element of schadenfreude to the appeal of Hulu’s Casual: the romantic and emotional struggles of an…
August 30, 2016In retrospect, the first season of Hulu’s Casual may be best viewed as a mystery. Stylistically reminiscent of Transparent,…
January 7, 2016It’s hard not to look at Jill Soloway’s Afternoon Delight (2013) as a warmup for her series Transparent. Rachel…
March 2, 2015Normally when describing a new show, I’ll just compare it to similar shows. Jill Soloway’s Transparent defies that easy…
October 21, 2014Over the weekend, Jenn and I caught In a World… (2013) at the local Laemmle, and I found it…
August 27, 2013I put Wanderlust (2012) on for background noise while I was eating lunch the other day, and unexpectedly ended…
March 9, 2013