TV
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The Virtue and Vice of Irreverence
The Young Pope and the role of irreverence in culture. Blasphemy. Heresy. Crude. Obscene. Dirty words used to describe unclean things: popular works that discuss religion…
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You Are What You Eat: How Hannibal Brought Cannibalism Back to Pop Culture’s Dinner Table
Over twenty years after Silence of the Lambs, Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal brought a much needed revival to the representation of cannibals. Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal is…
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A Series of Uncanny Connections in A Series of Unfortunate Events
Comparing the 2004 film with the 2016 TV series. When director Brad Siberling released his film of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events more than…
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Twin Peaks Episode Guide: Season 2, Episode 20 — “The Path to the Black Lodge”
The end begins… (If you need to catch up, you can check out all my posts til now right here.) EPISODE 27: “THE PATH TO THE BLACK LODGE”…
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Under the Stranger Things: The Netflix Series Meets Jonathan Glazer’s Sci-Fi Erotic Thriller
A chance meeting or a projection of things to come? Watch and decide for yourself. While watching Stranger Things last summer, the first time little…
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Westworld and the Meaning of Life
Appraising the show’s philosophy. It has now been more than a month since the season finale of Westworld, and the mad dash to explicate the…
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Inside Megyn Kelly’s New Show About Millennials, Journalists, and Sex
The former Fox News host’s brand expands with the streaming show Embeds. “Hurry up with my damn ménage,” ‘Ye sang less than four years ago and…
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When Maureen Stapleton Became Our Grandmother Forever
35 years ago, the actress sang the body electric. The handful of actresses I associate with motherhood include ’80s movie and TV staples Dee Wallace,…
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Eight Execrable Elements of Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Exploring the brightness of the dark children’s show. Execrable is a word which here means “extremely bad or unpleasant.” It is a word which, although…