The State of TV Today
As 2015 draws to a close, television is falling into a bit of a lull, between shows taking their midseason breaks or wrapping up their short seasons. In January, programming will resume with crowd...
Category: TV
Director David Holbrooke Discusses “The Diplomat”
With both the fight against ISIS and the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris on American’s minds both at home and abroad, a doc doesn’t deliver much more timely lessons than those of David...
Grown-up Comics: Netflix’s Jessica Jones Reflects on Female Trauma
Netflix dropped Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Friday and the internet hasn’t been able to shut up about it since, particularly when it comes to a corner of the internet that tends to be particularly...
Late Night TV Responds to the Paris Attacks
US late night television is a cultural institution that keeps night owls up with comedy, political commentary, and satire, with some programmes like Saturday Night Live stretching back decades. Often...
The Walking Dead: In Praise of Stupidity
Many viewers of AMC’s The Walking Dead have complex feelings for the show. It’s kind of like a high school relationship that makes you listen to a lot of Cure and repeatedly doodle broken...
Review: Aziz Ansari’s Master of None
Aziz Ansari, like many before him, has taken to Netflix as the platform for an intriguing series that allows him to explore television in a new way—with the added bite at pushing at how the United...
Please Like Me: The Gay Australian Drama You Should Be Watching
Please Like Me has just begun its third series on ABC2 in Australia and Pivot in the US, and it looks to be as tender, sharp, wry, and thoughtful as the programme’s initial run. Deemed ‘too...
Review: Quantico
Something is brewing on ABC, notorious for its primetime soap operas and baroque plotting, especially after the rise of Shonday, the full block of Shonda Rhimes helmed programming on Thursday nights...
Enough With The Reboots Already
CBS has announced its latest reboot subject: Nancy Drew. We have reached Peak Reboot, a point beyond which we surely cannot possibly go any further. It needs to stop. The television industry owes us...
Is The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah Just A Jon Stewart Clone?
Trevor Noah stepped into an extremely large pair of shoes on Monday night as he took the helm of the venerable Daily Show, replacing long-time host Jon Stewart. Stewart was largely responsible for...