Fall is back! Midseason is back! Pilot season is back! Seasonal broadcast TV development is back on track! Ordinary Joe had no ordinary path to series. It was originally written in 2009 by Matt Reeves. The pilot wasn’t ordered by NBC until January 2020, in that fateful before-time, the script having been bought but not […]
Apple TV has as close to universal appeal as 2020 will allow in “Ted Lasso.” Fans range from the celebrities I follow on Twitter (including actual Europeans that like “football”) to my own parents. And now, me. Ted Lasso is charming, funny and unselfconciously sweet. The saccharine optimism is refreshing. It’s offset by every other […]
The Umbrella Academy is charming. Surrealist, violent, colorful; lush with dark corners and sharp edges. If you like pithy, flawed, disdainful heroes then here’s a whole family of them. “There’s no such thing as good guys or bad guys, there’s just people going about their lives.” Number 5 to Luther, The Umbrella Academy episode 105 […]
The HBO documentary “The Apollo” that came out last month is so worth watching! Everyone should see this legendary theatre’s history so beautifully told.
The reboot of Beverly Hills 90210 was a fantastic summer mini series!!! It was a campy fictionalized meta story about the cast, playing themselves, coming back for a reboot. I loved every minute of it!
True Detective season 3 was a masterpiece performance by Mahershala Ali. The story was a slow, dark mystery. In the end, the most satisfying moment for me was the penultimate scene when the music started: Jon Batiste’s “Chopinesque” and “St. James Infirmary Blues” from his 2018 album “Hollywood Africans.” This soundtrack matches perfectly with the […]
The first show I’m watching on the brand new Paramount Network is Alicia Silverstone’s “American Woman.” First it surprised me by only being a brisk half hour, then the glamorous style and Alicia Silverstone’s wonderful presence won me right over. Cheyenne Jackson in a gay kiss never hurts either! Mena Suvari and Jennifer Bartels round […]
Comedy nerd, or enjoy conversing with the elderly? Watch “If you’re not in the obit, eat breakfast” from Carl Reiner and co. I’ve been reading the perfect book companion, too: Judd Apatow’s “Sick in the Head” which consists of 600 pages of interviews with many of the people in this film and basically any comedian […]
“Bessie” is a great movie. Queen Latifah and Mo’Nique both did beautiful jobs. The period art direction was beautiful as was the lighting!
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