Scared thin: The obesity autopsy
At some point in the recent past, a roughly 60-year-old woman died in Southern California, and generously donated her body to science. 5,000 miles away, her body is about to be cut open for the...
Category: TV
Do we really need to analyze Stranger Things to death?
Stranger Things is back in the zeitgeist again. Here's one from the archives... All aboard the nostalgia train, next stop Netflix and the '80s themed series Stranger Things. We disembark in Hawkins,...
BoJack is Back, and Better Than Ever
The third season of Netflix’s acclaimed animated series BoJack Horseman was made available for streaming last week. This dark comedy series follows the adventures of a washed-up alcoholic actor...
Tulip O’Hare: The new iteration of women and violence in media
AMC's Preacher wouldn't have been possible without Hannibal and True Blood before it — it's an orgiastic, perplexing, sometimes confusing celebration of violence and mayhem. Trying to sum up...
Lady Dynamite on Netflix gets mental illness right
Alternative comedian Maria Bamford’s stand-up has never shied away from her experiences with mental illness, nor from her off-the-wall musings on social mores and human behavior, but after her...
Marvel finally gets the Punisher right
As the second season of Daredevil, the Netflix adaptation of the hit Marvel Comics character, was released, Jon Bernthal, who plays Frank Castle, the Punisher, said to press that his character is...
Hulu’s The Path is the next streaming hit
Note: This review contains spoilers for the first four episodes of The Path Online streaming service (and notable cable replacement) Hulu has been trying to get into the original content game during...
When Netflix fails: The curse of cancelled shows
Humans are natural puzzle solvers. Our entire existence has hinged on our ability to solve problems and create innovative solutions that placed us at the top of the food chain. After all, without the...
Why are so many reality TV stars committing suicide?
As saddening and tragic as any suicide is, the news that 21 reality TV stars have ended their own lives over the past decade isn't entirely shocking. Of all the genres to have ever graced or...
Never Grow Up: HBO’s Animals, Adult Coloring Books and the Birth of the Kidult
With the rise of adult colouring books — colouring books designed for adults, not the other kind of ‘adult’ — has come the rise of animated comedies also targeted at the adult market (think...