Category: TV

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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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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Cartoons and Self Formation

Returning to the Powerpuff Girls.

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Double Features to Do Instead of Barbie/Oppenheimer

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A Review of Tall Girl

Considering the notorious Netflix drama.

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Nass Recommends: Riverdale

When corny becomes profound.

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Fake Housewives, Get Out

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

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Liking Love

The first few episodes feature some pretty conventional plot devices, but the characterization and dialogue have a loose, awkward, and very human quality to them.

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The Avatar and Me

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

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A Review of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Marvelous Mrs. Maisel paints a picture of a vivid and choreographed 1950s New York and explores development of a personal feminism.

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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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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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