Oh, Forrest McNeil. You overcommitted, short-sighted nincompoop. Oh Review, Andy Daly’s absolutely brilliant meta dark dramedy that fuels his insatiable desire to tirelessly evaluate anything and everything the unfortunate host is requested to review — no matter how dangerous, life-threatening…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “More, Or Less”
Feud: Bette and Joan is, above all else, an anthology series centered around feminism and ageism in the dog eat dog boy’s club known as Hollywood. Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) and Bette Davis’ (Susan Sarandon) bitter rivalry during the making…
Album Review: Depeche Mode — “Spirit”
Nobody communicates anxiety quite like Depeche Mode. The moody intensity they bring to their music, especially in these past few albums, is chilling and magnificent, hurt and liberated. They are wounded, fragile and aching, but they’re intensely, furiously alive, and…
‘Review’ 3×02 Review: “Co-Host; Ass-Slap; Helen Keller; Forgiveness”
Andy Daly’s Review is a beautifully, heartbreakingly hilarious mockumentary series, one that openly questions and studies one’s moral sanity and worthiness of redemption far more than your average Comedy Central series. That it airs directly after Tosh.0 (which, for the record,…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “Mommie Dearest”
A woman’s touch is a welcomed one for Feud: Bette and Joan. Ryan Murphy’s newest FX anthology series finds Murphy himself evacuating the director’s chair in favor of Gwyneth Horder-Payton, a TV director with a long established history with the…
Review 3×01 Review: “Locorito; Pet Euthanasia; Dream”
Andy Daly’s Review is a brutal, relentless series, filled with misery, existential dread, death, soul-searching and pure awkwardness. Thankfully, it’s also one of the funniest, sharpest shows on television. It’s a shame, then, that — after a brief three-season run…
Movie Review: Raw
Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a deliciously fucked endurance test, one that rattles your insides and challenges you without mercy. A coming-of-age story that depicts and/or explores, among other things, cannibalism, puberty, liberation, sexual exploration, adulthood, sisterhood, terminal illness, lust, alcoholism, bulimia,…
