“Bravely seek out joy, even when it’s hard.” This is one of the many great lines from the second season of Netflix’s Nobody Wants This, and I’ve been sitting with it for a few days. I think...
This spooky season, I am genuinely sick of serial killers and assorted deviants. I want to care about their victims, and not their twisted inner worlds. But the makers of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer...
Time is strange - startlingly real to the human body, and not real at all if you’re trying to reconcile the theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. Twenty five years have passed since Mark...
Netflix’s Unknown Number documentary recently introduced millions of viewers to a mom who catfished and harassed her own daughter, Lauryn, with text messages that varied from sexual harassment to...
I must begin this column by pointing out that I like superheroes. Their story arcs give me that soaring feeling, and I like the overarching American narrative embedded in our most popular superhero...
A lot of people don’t realize that I am a fan of country music. Maybe it’s the whole Ukrainian thing. Although being originally from a country that has dealt with as much shit as Ukraine has, I...
Netflix’s Untamed has just been renewed for a second season, which is terrific news for those of us who obsess over the beauty of the American West. When it came out, I was surprised to read some...
This week, it was announced that Neil Druckmann will be stepping away from HBO’s The Last of Us series to focus on his work for Naughty Dog. Some background in case you are not aware: Druckmann and...
The UK is a small island studded with secrets and secret lairs. I’m not just saying that because I grew up amidst American expanses and am honestly in awe of how the British maximize every square...
When it comes to true crime stories on Netflix, recent additions of Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders and A Deadly American Marriage both stood out to me recently, because they did something that few...
