If nothing else, Netflix’s G.L.O.W. has contributed to the popular culture one tremendous performance. I speak, of course, of Marc Maron as Sam Sylvia, the sleazy sexploitation B-movie director at the center of the new Jenji Kohan-produced series. The speaker of such…
Sense8 and the virtue of hope
Sense8 is and was a beautiful show because it understood that there something we all so desperately wanted to see on our screens: hope. It was a show that, by design, this critic was always going to gravitate towards as a…
TV Review: The Ranch Part 3
This has been a year full of strange TV, and with trippy shows like Legion, American Gods, and Twin Peaks dominating much of the cultural discussion, one of the very strangest series on TV (streaming, actually) continues to go almost…
Review: Netflix’s Oh, Hello on Broadway
Would you like to be annoyed by two giddy comedians for the better part of two hours? Boy, do I ever have a treat for you – it’s Oh, Hello on Broadway on Netflix! I have never particularly liked Gil…
TV Review: House of Cards Season 5, Episodes 7-13
There comes a certain point while watching a reality TV show that you start to wonder just how real the show is. Then comes the frightening opposite of it, when watching a dramatically licensed TV show based on daily life…
Top 20 Netflix Shows of All Time
You are not alone if you’re starting to feel the weight of the streaming boom. In addition to the number of network series making their way to the streaming giant, Netflix is increasing production of new original shows. The overwhelming…
TV Review: House of Cards Season 5, Episodes 1-6
But is it really deja vu? Is it really that far off to believe somehow, the House of Cards universe suddenly finds itself feasible? Rather, are we so induced into whatever universe we find ourselves in that we find HOC plausible? There’s no other…