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Friday, April 16, 2021

Muppet Show

Is ‘The Muppet Show’ Racist?

February 24, 2021March 18, 2021 Neal Pollack 5 Comments Debbie Harry, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Belafonte, Jim Henson, Johnny Cash, Julie Andrews, Lena Horne, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, The Muppet Show, The Swedish Chef

A Disney+ disclaimer creates a cultural uproar

Freaks and Geeks

‘Freaks and Geeks’: Lost and Found

February 18, 2021February 23, 2021 Michael Giltz 0 Comments American Dreams, An American Family, Blair Brown, Brittany Snow, Busy Phillips, David Straithairn, Ernie Kovacs, Freaks and Geeks, Genndy Tartakovsky, Holocaust, Hornblower, I'll Fly Away, Ioan Gruffud, James Franco, Jason Segal, Jay Tarses, Linda Cardellini, Louise Lasser, Mary Hartman, Meryl Streep, Molly Dodd, Moonlighting, Police Squad!, Regina Taylor, Sam Waterston, Seth Rogen, The Clone Wars, The Monkees, The Zucker Brothers, Timothy Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh

With ‘Freaks’ and ‘The Muppet Show’ finally streaming, here are some other great shows we want to see back in the rotation

freezing

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Some Great Movies About Freezing Your Ass Off

February 17, 2021February 19, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Charles Martin Smith, Ciaran Hinds, Dr. Zhivago, Fargo, Frozen, Jack Nicholson, John Carpenter, Leonardo DiCaprio, Never Cry Wolf, Steve Buscemi, The Revenant, The Shining, The Terror, The Thing

We have problems in Texas right now, but at least we don’t have these problems. Or do we?

Trump

Politics TELEVISION

Memories of the Trump Show

February 17, 2021February 23, 2021 Mia McCullough 1 Comment Anthony Scaramucci, Bill Barr, Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, John Kelly, Kayleigh McEnany, Mike Pompeo, Paul Manafort, Rex Tillerson, Robert Mueller, Roger Stone, Rudy Giuliani, Sean Spicer, Stormy Daniels

After four gripping and appalling seasons, how can we go back to regularly-scheduled programming?

People In Your Neighborhood

These Are the Sellout People In Your Neighborhood

February 8, 2021February 8, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Barbara Walters, Bob McGrath, Cookie Monster, Daveed Diggs, DoorDash, Martina Navratilova, People In Your Neighborhood, Ralph Nader, Sesame Street

DoorDash desecrates a classic ‘Sesame Street’ song

Lupin

C’est ‘Lupin’

February 5, 2021February 8, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments George Kay, Ludivine Sagnier, Lupin, Omar Sy

The caper series, which cleverly re-invents a classic French character, could use a stronger supporting cast

All Creatures Great and Small

Horse Pucky

January 29, 2021January 30, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments All Creatures Great and Small, Anna Madeley, Callum Woodhouse, James Herriot, Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West

The ‘All Creatures Great And Small’ reboot wallows in rural nostalgia…and dung

Fran Leibowitz

CREATORS TELEVISION Writers

A Few Evenings With Fran Lebowitz

January 27, 2021February 5, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Andy Warhol, Belinda Carlisle, Fran Lebowitz, James Levine, Martin Scorsese, Pretend It's A City, Toni Morrison

Martin Scorsese’s Netflix documentary series about a great American wit

Thanos Snapping

FILM TELEVISION

Marvel, ‘Star Wars’, and the Endless Multiplatform Universe

January 22, 2021January 26, 2021 Jake Harris 0 Comments Batman, DC, Eternals, Hailee Steinfeld, Hawkeye, Joker, Marvel, Ms. Marvel, Robert Pattinson, Shang-Chi, Star Wars, The Flash, The Mandalorian, WandaVision, Wonder Woman

We’ve entered the age of total, inescapable cultural immersion

WandaVision

‘WandaVision’ Marks the Beginning of the Post-TV Era

January 16, 2021January 21, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Bewitched, Breaking Bad, Debra Jo Rupp, Elizabeth Olson, Fred Melamed, I Love Lucy, Kathryn Hahn, Mad Men, Marvel, MCU, Paul Bettany, The Brady Bunch, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Sopranos, The Wire, WandaVision

A classic superhero show about classic sitcoms

The Stand

FICTION TELEVISION

‘The Stand’ Doesn’t Deliver

January 14, 2021January 19, 2021 Scott Gold 1 Comment Alexander Skarsgard, Gary Sinise, Heather Graham, James Marsden, Jovan Adepo, Molly Ringwald, Odessa Young, Owen Teague, Randall Flagg, Rob Lowe, Stephen King, The Stand, Whoopi Goldberg

‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’ is absent in CBS All Access reboot of Stephen King’s apocalypse saga. So is linear narrative.

Cobra Kai

‘Cobra Kai’ Season 3: What Went Wrong?

January 11, 2021January 25, 2021 Neal Pollack 22 Comments Cobra Kai, Johnny Lawrence, Martin Kove, Ralph Macchio, William Zabka

From ‘The Karate Kid’ to ‘Apocalypse Now’ in two easy steps

History of Swear Words

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‘History Of Swear Words’ is Pretty Fucking Good

January 11, 2021January 14, 2021 Jake Harris 0 Comments Christopher D'Elia, History of Swear Words, Kory Stamper, Nick Offerman, Nicolas Cage, Nikki Glaser, Sarah Silverman

Host Nicolas Cage is the shit

Ken Jennings

Gaming Politics TELEVISION

The People Vs. Ken Jennings

January 5, 2021January 13, 2021 Jake Harris 0 Comments Alex Trebek, Bean Dad, James Holzhauer, John Roderick, Ken Jennings

What is: Never Tweet?

80s

FILM TELEVISION

We’re Loving the 80s to Death

January 4, 2021January 6, 2021 Rob Kutner 0 Comments Cobra Kai, Ready Player One, Ready Player Two, Stranger Things, The Americans, The Goldbergs, Wonder Woman 1984, WW84

A Gen-Xer’s Plea to stop talking about his generation