Mike White’s Brad’s Status is a Noah Baumbach movie where everybody is stupid. Instead of dealing with the borderline perverse anxieties of upper middle-class white intellectuals, we have a story about an upper middle-class man tethered to his own mediocrity.…
The Guest Book 1×08 Review: “Story Five”
Early in the season, it seemed that The Guest Book had skipped an episode. Either they labeled it wrong or it just got mixed around, but the eighth episode turned out to be “Story Five” and, boy, the writers were…
TV Look-Back: Now is a Great Time to Start Watching ‘The Office’
It’s no secret that NBC finally said goodbye to The Office. This May, we bid adieu to Jim and Pam, Dwight and Angela, Ryan and Kelly, and we said goodbye to Michael Scott and his horrible jokes seasons ago. The…