After nearly 10 years since their last album the New Zealand musical-comedy duo of your bookish dreams, Flight of the Conchords, finally returned with an HBO concert special. Now, a few months after the special became available, we get the…
High Maintenance 3×08 Review: “Proxy”
This week’s title, “Proxy,” is a perfectly succinct way of underlining the complex relationships on display tonight. Arturo and Adriana (Guillermo Diaz and Rosie Perez) buy themselves a proxy infant, Erin (Christine Elmo) has become a proxy wife/mother/pal to the…
Album Review: Better Oblivion Community Center – “Better Oblivion Community Center”
The music of Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers has never been mistaken for up-tempo pop music, and in fact, is probably seen by many to be best suited to individual moping (I say this with love; I am a first-class…
High Maintenance 3×07 Review: “Dongle”
High Maintenance doesn’t often employ traditional visual metaphors, but this week we see two couples respectively facing towards and away from fireworks both literally and in their relationship, and the show pulls off that small shred of cheese pretty well.…
High Maintenance 3×06 Review: “Fingerbutt”
This episode is named after an illusion that makes it appear as if you’re taking a photo through someone’s bare legs when in actuality you are just using your index finger. It is fitting, then, that the plots of this…
High Maintenance 3×05 Review: “Payday”
People say that it’s difficult to write about something you enjoy and I am feeling that acutely this week. “Payday” might end up being one of the best High Maintenance episodes because it’s an example of so many of the…
Album Review: White Lies – “Five”
For their fifth album, White Lies largely sticks to what it does best while continuing on the pop path continually glimpsed at in all of their previous work. If you jumped straight from their first release in 2008, To Lose…
