https://youtu.be/VESKjoxAmZg Comedy, said Aristotle, shows us as worse than we are. Well, let it never be said that Hollywood neglects the Stagirite. A case in point is that cynic’s delight, Bojack Horseman, co-created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Lisa Hanawalt, now in its third season on Netflix, filling us in on all those glamourous folks in…
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NYT TV critic discovers sex, is not amused
Got a column to fill and nothing to fill it with? NYT scribe Neil Genzlinger knows the feeling. Although he claims he enjoys looking at naked women as much as a “crisply turned double play”—which I somehow doubt—he claims to be appalled by the rampant use of strip clubs as settings for TV shows when…
Because you’re totally gay?
Okay, that is totally unfair not only to Seth Stevenson, who, so it appears, is not even gay at all, but also to gays, who are, most of the time, no worse than the rest of us, but when Seth loudly proclaims, over at Slate, “Why do we love Lady Mary, the Dowager Countess, and…
Emily Nussbaum, discovering the seamy side of torture
When Dexter, the tale of a sensitive serial killer, first premiered, five seasons ago, the New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum counted herself a fan: Each week, Dexter, played with icy charisma by Michael C. Hall, stalked his victims. He strapped them to a table, sliced their cheeks to collect a drop of blood, then cut them up with a…
Coyotes: mangy scavengers or misunderstood plot devices?
Maybe it’s just the luck of the draw, but in the crime shows I’m watching these days, whenever a corpse has been mysteriously eaten, moved, mutilated, or otherwise disturbed, the preliminary analysis always concludes that the mysterious eating, moving, mutilating, etc. was done “presumably by coyotes,” who apparently range from Central Park West to Jerry’s…