Category: TV

The Avatar and Me

On falling in love with a childhood favorite as an adult.

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Teloveision

Harvey is 82. He is a former member of the Welsh Guard who wears a dandelion on his lapel, and he is “not ready to give up on love or life.” This is why he is here, on my screen, a participant in the British Channel 4 reality show “First Dates.”

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Sex on TV

Mad Men

The man will keep his suit on and will be married, but definitely not to you.

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Red Eyes, Clear Heart, Can’t Lose

On the stoner realism of “High Maintenance.”

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Jon Stewart

Five years ago, my father stopped reading and started watching MSNBC, whose keening pundits now bestow constant background radiation unto our crowded living room.

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Oeuvre Reviews, Joshua Malina: The West Wing, Season 4

“… in which Joshua Malina makes his debut as Will Bailey and I suddenly become very, very interested in the mechanics of government.”

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Love Lessons

Wherein a Nass writer contemplates the influence of Disney on her burgeoning worldview.

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the Limits of the Liberal Imagination

Wherein a Nass writer looks at the popular sitcom from a more radical angle.

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Lights, Camera…Checkmate

A Nass writer considers Netflix’s miniseries The Queen’s Gambit.

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Double Features to Do Instead of Barbie/Oppenheimer

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The Nass Reviews Flaked

This show is like the less-funny, homosocial version of Love except there’s still chicks in it and dudes who are bad at talking to them.

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Translating an International Sensation: Norway’s SKAM and the Fan Translators Who Made It Happen

An interview with the Québécois translator behind a francophone fan-base.

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