Review: The Bridge
Last week, FX, which tries to be the edgier, more adventurous side of Fox, debuted The Bridge, an adaptation of the Swedish/Danish series of the same name, starring Diane Kruger and Demián Bichir....
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Feminist Solidarity and Fuck Yous: ‘The Heat’ Takes on the Buddy Cop Genre
It’s tempting to review The Heat, the lady-centric buddy cop comedy from Bridesmaids director Paul Feig, by focusing on what the movie is not. It is not an action vehicle made by men, for men; the...
Review: Orphan Black
Ever feel like you’re having difficulty keeping characters straight? That could have been a problem in Orphan Black, a new BBC America scripted series based on the premise that a set of cloned...
In Praise of The Fosters
I’m finding myself strangely besotted with ABC’s The Fosters, and it’s not just because it’s summertime and the television pickings are slim. Summertime is, after all, the time of year when...
Review: ABC’s Mistresses
As soon as I hit ‘play,’ bodies started writhing and undulating all over the screen. I scrolled down carefully to determine whether I’d accidentally loaded soft porn, but I hadn’t, and thus I...
Review: Arrested Development Season 4
The long-delayed fourth season of Fox cult hit Arrested Development debuted on Netflix this weekend, to cries of delights from fans—10% of whom proceeded to marathon the show, consuming all 15...
Companion Cannon Fodder: The Doctor Who Finale
Oh, gentle readers, do let’s discuss Clara the Impossible Girl and the thrilling or perhap insipid conclusion of the seventh season, which just aired on televisions ‘round the world. We were...
Review: The Great Gatsby
He watches the winking green light. He is blissfully unaware that it is a bilious green, the green of envy, an old money Cyclops that never sleeps. This light will never be extinguished, never be...
If I Could Trust TV…
Every now and then, I like to indulge myself with fantasies of storylines that could be, if only I could trust television to do them right. Those dreams loom especially large in the wake of finale...
Catching Up on Veronica Mars
Like Veronica Mars fans the world over, I waited with bated breath when creator Rob Thomas launched a Kickstarter campaign challenging fans to pay for the movie he’d been promising since the show...