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Special

‘Special’ Brings All The Feels

June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Jessica Hecht, Punam Patel, Ryan O'Connell, Special

A somehow universally relatable show about a lonely gay man with cerebral palsy

Kevin Can F**k Himself

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Kevin Can F**k Himself Rips Sexist Sitcoms

June 22, 2021June 23, 2021 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments All American Boys, AMC, Annie Murphy, Kevin Can F**k Himself, Rashida Jones, Schitt's Creek, Will McCormack

Schitt’s Creek’s Annie Murphy is a standout in her first starring role

Kim's Convenience

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Kim’s Convenience Steps in a Pile of Horse Poop

June 21, 2021June 23, 2021 William Schwartz 1 Comment Canadian Broadcasting Company, Ins Choi, Jean Yoon, Kevin White, Kim's Convenience, Nicole Power, Simu Liu, South Korea

Plagued by accusations of racism, the popular CBC show about Korean immigrants gets an early hook

Loki

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BFG Podcast #009: ‘Forget the Alamo,’ Jean Smart, ‘Loki,’ and More!

June 21, 2021June 21, 2021 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments

Our editor and writers break down the week that was in culture

Loki

Who Cares if Loki is Genderfluid?

June 17, 2021June 23, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Enchantress, genderfluid, Loki, Marvel, Odin, Owen Wilson, Squirrel Girl, Tom Hiddleston

Marvel barely pushes the envelope

Superhero families

COMICS FILM TELEVISION

This is Super Us

June 14, 2021June 21, 2021 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Batman, Fantastic Four, Invincible, Josh Duhamel, Jupiter's Legacy, Sky High, Spider-Man, superhero, Superman, Superman Returns, The Boys, WandaVision

What’s with all the superhero family drama?

Jean Smart

The Many Faces of Jean Smart

June 14, 2021June 17, 2021 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments Designing Women, Fargo, Garden State, Hacks, Jean Smart, Mare of Easttown, Michael McKean, Nathan Lane, Overkill, The Brady Bunch Movie, The Man Who Came To Dinner, The Oblongs, Watchmen, Youth In Revolt

‘Designing Women,’ an extraordinary recent run on HBO, and a significant body of work in between

Sweet Tooth

He was an Antler Boy

June 10, 2021June 21, 2021 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Adeel Akhtar, Christian Convery, Jeff Lemire, Josh Brolin, Sweet Tooth, Will Forte

Beware ‘Sweet Tooth’, Netflix’s hit YA-grade plague-porn series

Gremlins

Gremlins and Blade Runner: The Animated Series

June 10, 2021June 15, 2021 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments B.D. Wong, Benjamin Ree, Black Louts, Blade Runner, Gizmo, Gremlins, Howie Mandel, Joe Dante, Matthew Rhys, Neil Gaiman, Patton Oswalt, Philip K. Dick, Robert Downey Jr., Sandman, Secrets of the Mogwai, Shinichiro Watanabe, Tze Chun

No franchise is safe from an extended cartoon reboot

Bo Burnham

Bo Burnham Haz a Sad

June 9, 2021June 21, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Beck, Bo Burnham, Daniel Levy, Inside, Jimmy Kimmel, Kurt Weill, Lorene Scafaria

‘Inside,’ a mournful one-man interior apocalypse

Feel Good

The ‘Feel Good’ Show of the Summer

June 9, 2021June 11, 2021 Jamie Mason 0 Comments Fawlty Towers, Feel Good, John Cleese, Lisa Kudrow, Mae Martin, Sophie Thompson

An underappreciated girl meets girl romance calls to mind the classics of British comedy

A Good ‘Bad Batch’

June 3, 2021June 10, 2021 Scott Gold 0 Comments Bad Batch, Clone Wars, Dave Filoni, Disney Plus, Mandalorian, Star Wars

The newest Star Wars animated series offers thrilling adventures in clone babysitting

MUSIC TELEVISION

‘Girls5eva’: 2 Hard 2 Watch

June 2, 2021 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Busy Philipps, Dean Winters, Girls5eva, Paula Pell, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sara Bareilles, Tina Fey

Peacock’s send-up of all-girl pop groups falls flat

TV Needs To Get Back To Pre-COVID Normal

May 27, 2021June 11, 2021 Joel Keller 0 Comments Inside the NBA, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, Live with Kelly and Ryan, Saturday Night Live, Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, The Tonight Show, Trevor Noah

Why are so many shows still cosplaying the pandemic?

Sasquatch

DOCUMENTARY TELEVISION

‘Sasquatch’ is about Sasquatch…and Then it Isn’t

May 19, 2021May 25, 2021 Jake Harris 0 Comments Bigfoot, Hulu, Sasquatch, Three Identical Strangers

Don’t blame a cryptid for your weed murders

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