Category: TV

Fake Housewives, Get Out

In which a writer contemplates the influence of housewives, real and fake.

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Searching for Truth

Trump, Objectivity, and the Media

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Reckoning for the Hathahaters

Interrogating how and why Hollywood women fall out of public favor.

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Oeuvre Reviews: Joshua Malina in Sports Night

“It was a chilling fragment of the 20th century hiding under the innocent guise of a sitcom, leaving me shaking in my little Gen-Z boots.”

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Babylon Berlin Review

A snapshot of a young republic in peril, and its lessons for our times.

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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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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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Nass Recommends: Riverdale

When corny becomes profound.

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The Avatar and Me

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

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Replacing the Irreplacable

Earlier this week, America met its replacement for the (some would say) irreplaceable Jon Stewart.

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All American (Anti-) Hero

In the third episode of Netflix and Marvel’s new superhero show Daredevil, a man crushes in his enemy’s face by repeatedly smashing it with a bowling ball.

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Lights, Camera…Checkmate

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

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