Paranoia in ‘High Maintenance’s Second SeasonThe new season of High Maintenance starts in the same spot HBO’s first season started: with the semi-protagonist weed dealer, The Guy, getting […]
‘Portlandia’ Says Goodbye at Just the Right TimeSeason 1 of Portlandia opened with a song that promised a Pacific Northwest heaven: it was like the 1990s forever, “when people were content to […]
Brief Eulogies for the Sitcoms We Lost in 2017As 2017 draws to a close, we take a closer look at a few of the notable sitcoms that aired their final episodes in 2017. To some we say a […]
‘Mrs. Maisel’ Is MarvelousThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is an incredibly joyful show. Given, of course, that it takes place in 1958 and the protagonist’s husband leaves her […]
Fall Comedy Reads: ‘The Daily Show (The Book)’Welcome to our Fall Comedy Reads series, where we take a closer look at some of the newly released comedy-related books worth checking out this […]
Fall Comedy Reads: Budd Friedman’s ‘The Improv’Welcome to our Fall Comedy Reads series, where we take a closer look at some of the newly released comedy-related books worth checking out this […]
The Ghosts of ‘Fuller House’Critics were understandably put off by Fuller House’s first season, which was packed full of in-jokes and meta gags for fans of Full House who […]
‘Transparent’ Goes on Tour in Season 4Writer’s note: While it seems inevitable that Ali Pfefferman (Gaby Hoffmann) will soon begin identifying as nonbinary (as creator Jill Soloway […]
The Long-Running Sitcoms We Lost in 2014Today, a sitcom making it to a second season is as notable as another return to Gilligan’s Island. Here, we pay tribute to some sitcoms we lost […]
Ken Finkleman and the Art of Being DerivativeLike many series of the mid-90s, 1996’s The Newsroom began as an imitator of The Larry Sanders Show. The latter show opened the door for the […]