NBC’s beloved philosophical comedy The Good Place ended its fourth and final season on January 30. The last episode of the series had an extended air time of 65 minutes, compared to the usual twenty; the gift of extra time matched perfectly with the series’ ultimate conception of what the Good Place is. Eleanor Shellstrop…
Mardi Gras in New Orleans is not simply a day, nor just a weekend of crazy parades. Mardi Gras is a season, perhaps even a lifestyle, that officially begins on January 6th, known as Twelfth Night. On this date, it is acceptable to eat your first piece of king cake, a Mardi Gras staple, and…
Content Warning: references to suicide, depression, and subtance abuse. Contains spoilers for the final season of Bojack Horseman. *** Bojack Horseman is over, and everything is worse now. I first realized Bojack Horseman was going to be something special during the penultimate episode of its first season. It had taken me several tries to get…
(CW: brief mentions of sexual assault) Relentlessly boring, season 10 of Shameless—a sometimes dark, sometimes absurd dramedy about a family from Chicago’s South Side—set a new low for the long-running and ever-declining series. For me, a (former? Present? Recovering?) Shameless fan, the success of the show has always hinged on two things: a delicate yet…
Back when I first really got into film and TV, a couple of my friends suggested that I watch Star Wars: The Clone Wars. I initially scoffed, having seen the terrible movie that kickstarted the show, and believed that the rest of the series would be similarly underdeveloped, stilted trash aimed primarily at young children….
While the weather has remained surprisingly temperate this winter (thanks global warming), I still believe that the ~winter vibe~ is strong. So despite the lack of snow, here is a playlist of pretty songs to warm your cold heart as we trudge through the next few months of gray skies, barren trees, and seasonal depression….
Frogs are great. They are weird, squishy, little lads. In their small, amphibious bodies they harbor great power for both good and evil. To this day, the most moving cinematic experience I’ve had was when King Harold the frog (John Cleese) died in Shrek the Third (2007). Many days, when the stress of Georgetown life…
Like many people who aren’t big into sports, I had no idea who Aaron Hernandez was before watching the new Netflix docuseries, The Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, surrounding his now infamous life. I had grown up going to Ravens games with my dad, mostly excited by how enthusiastic he got and the…
When I attended middle school in a small, Canadian town, openly liking anime got you labeled as either a weirdo or pervert—most likely both. It was ostracizing. Recently, I attended a sold out American showing of Makoto Shinkai’s newest anime film, Weathering with You (2019). Japanese anime’s wave of popularity has hit the US. Makoto…
Shockingly, Cats (2019) was not the most egregious feline-related content the world has seen in the past few months. Netflix’s Don’t F*ck With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer, a three episode documentary, follows a group of adults who dedicate themselves to finding and bringing a cat killer to justice. Using only basic information available on…