Add
Private Notes
Euphoria has a lot of graphic drugs, sex, and nudity in it which has raised the question, "Why does this show take place in high school?" Why not college? Or the prison from Oz? Well buckle in buckos, because we're about to travel on an emotional time machine!
Jon Stewart is one of the most influential political commentators of the 21st Century, a champion for liberals, and one of the most dominant presences on TV ever (10 straight Emmys!). He's returned to TV with The Problem with Jon Stewart, and it got me wondering: What the hell happened to Jon Stewart?
The Problem with Jon Stewart talks about a lot of issues, but the one thing the show keeps bumping up against is its unwillingness to grapple with the bedrocks of American policy: capitalism and neoliberalism.
HBO's Barry has a funny premise: a hitman is bored from killing people and just wants to settle down. It's a riff on the Difficult Men era of TV, defined by central middle-aged men behaving badly in shows like The Sopranos, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad. But is this premise just for laughs or is the show trying to say something deeper about masculinity?
Original Title: The Weird Capitalist Spaces of SEVERANCE
Severance (AppleTV+) is not so subtly about capitalism, but it leaves a lot of its most powerful critiques to an unlikely source — set design.
PAW Patrol is a TV show for kids. It's very popular, so we might as well ask: "What vision of policing does it suggest?" PAW Patrol is also a very bad TV show.
Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal on HBO is one of the greatest pieces of art I've seen on TV, because of the way it paints a portrait of social anxiety on multiple levels.
The Haunting of Hill House is a masterpiece of TV horror, and has turned its creator Mike Flanagan into a Netflix industry unto himself, churning out one beloved horror series after another: The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, and The Midnight Club. But what makes these shows so special?
Top Gun: Maverick's nostalgia isn't just a sweet treat for fans of the franchise. The nostalgia is the whole point, one that has something powerful to say.
