Television
Netflix has spent the past two and a half years slowly setting the stage for the grittiest superhero universe yet.
Bill Maher’s once robust contrarian streak has shriveled over time.
Margaret Atwood’s novel turns out to have been far more clairvoyant than even she believed it would be.
Neal Brennan’s mix-and-match of styles manages to combine deadpan sensibility with shocking poignancy.
“Tokenism also plays into this issue. Some companies are hiring one dancer of color and they think they’ve done diversity.”
The Get Down has the tragic resonance it deserves, though Baz Luhrmann pulls back from confronting the narrative’s political implications.
Louis CK has said that he is more proud of this show than anything else he’s done.
The trajectory of O. J. Simpson’s life eventually touched on almost every aspect American society.
If you really want a full-on immersion into the halcyon decade that that gave us the Beatles and free love, you simply must watch Aquarius.
It says something about where we are at as a country when the absurdist’s voice is the only one that is persuasively human.
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