Shgun Won the Attention War
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 5 minutes
| 902 words
| Zora Stowers
Subtitles: If we don’t read them, we cannot follow a show with dialogue in a language we don’t speak. If we do read them, we cannot also be looking at our phones. It’s absurd to point out such a superficial element of Shōgun, a series that drowns superficialities in a quicksand of layered meanings and reconsidered motives, but it’s an inescapable fact of the appeal and success of this show.
[Read More]Shitposting With the Guy From Eve 6
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 13 minutes
| 2679 words
| Elina Uphoff
Want to feel old? The guy from Eve 6 is now a Twitter celebrity. If you don’t know Eve 6, you’re either not a ’90s rock fan or not on Twitter. The band’s 1998 song “Inside Out” — or, as bassist and lead vocalist Max Collins endearingly calls it, “heart in a blender song” — went to No. 1 (and was featured in the film Can’t Hardly Wait). Its “Here’s to the Night” was an early-aughts graduation and prom fan fave.
[Read More]Shoshanna on Girls Is Adulting, But Has She Really Grown Up?
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 6 minutes
| 1099 words
| Sherie Connelly
Every week during the final season of Girls, Vulture TV columnist Jen Chaney will offer input or advice to various characters on the HBO series. This week’s recipient: Shoshanna Shapiro.
To: Shoshanna Shapiro
Re: Your engagement and your general future
I could have written you a letter, Shoshanna, as I did a few short weeks ago after that WEMUN mixer and the fight you had with Jessa. Instead, I have drafted my thoughts in memo form, because I am trying to keep this businesslike, the way a truly professional WEMUN member would.
[Read More]Shrinking Recap: Bad Day
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 6 minutes
| 1198 words
| Janel Helmers
Shrinking Potatoes Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Shrinking Potatoes Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » One thing that’s important to remember about Jimmy Laird is that he can be selfish. When he lost his wife, he spent a year burying himself in sex, booze, and drugs, forgetting that his daughter had lost a mom, too.
[Read More]Silicon Valley Recap: Two and a Half Erlichs
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 7 minutes
| 1379 words
| Janel Helmers
Silicon Valley Bad Money Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Silicon Valley Bad Money Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Twenty-five years ago, my computer science degree manifested itself as a blood-spattered piece of paper scrawled entirely in Latin.
[Read More]Sloth Show Finally Coming to Television
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 1 minutes
| 109 words
| Janel Helmers
Pop the Champagne, high-five a million angels, and give Kristen Bell a brown paper bag to breathe into: Animal Planet has announced a new sloth TV show. Meet the Sloths, an eight-part series that debuts Saturday, November 9, is filmed at a sloth sanctuary and, according to the network, will chronicle “every charming second of their daily sloth soap opera … including adolescent pranks, sloth love triangles and young heartbreak.
[Read More]Slow Burn: David Duke Is a Scorching Look at White Supremacy in America
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 3 minutes
| 618 words
| Zora Stowers
David Duke. White supremacy still finds purchase in these United States, and given enough oxygen, it will always come roaring back. This is the most pronounced idea in the fourth season of Slow Burn, which centers on David Duke’s rise in the late ’80s and early ’90s, when the former Klansman was elected to the Louisiana state legislature and went on to mount serious runs for governor and the U.
[Read More]Slow Horses Recap: Walk Into It
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 6 minutes
| 1198 words
| Janel Helmers
Slow Horses From Upshott With Love Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Slow Horses From Upshott With Love Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » One major advantage of Slow Horses telling a single story over six episodes is pace.
[Read More]SNL Writer Katie Rich Suspended for Barron Trump Tweet
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 2 minutes
| 228 words
| Aldo Pusey
Barron Trump. After encountering criticism from both sides of the aisle for her tweet about Donald Trump’s son Barron, SNL writer Katie Rich has been suspended indefinitely from the show, according to a source familiar with the situation. “I sincerely apologize for the insensitive tweet. I deeply regret my actions & offensive words. It was inexcusable & I’m so sorry,” Rich said on Twitter, though she did not acknowledge the suspension. Over inauguration weekend, Rich tweeted that Barron Trump could become “the nation’s first homeschool shooter”; after a few hours she deleted the tweet and made her account private.
[Read More]Somebody Somewhere Recap: A Tender Gesture
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 9 minutes
| 1843 words
| Janel Helmers
Somebody Somewhere NMB NMP Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Somebody Somewhere NMB NMP Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Joel! Sweet, sweet Joel! What have you done? It was only time before Somebody Somewhere put Joel and Sam’s friendship to the test, and that test begins right now with “NMB NMP.
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