The thing about Apple TV+’s The Morning Show, starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell (with Julianna Margulies as a recurring guest star in Season 2), is it’s a show about control. And because it’s a show about a TV morning show set against first, the #MeToo movement, and then, against the aftermath of […]
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The Thing About ‘Squid Game’
From South Korea and now the hottest thing on Netflix, Squid Game is the show for you, if you are into cancelling folk. This is a show about hundreds of have-nots – 456, to be precise – portrayed by a new constellation of global stars, including Lee Jung-jae, HoYeon Jung, and Gong Yoo, who are […]
The Thing About ‘The Happening’
The thing about the happening, meaning COVID-19, our very own IRL happening, is it happened (it’s been happening). And shortly thereafter, America pulled out of Afghanistan. Good thing, for now we can call upon and welcome our military home, and task them with helping us to strengthen our communities rather than fortifying our fronteras. Up […]
The Thing About DaBaby
The thing about the DaBaby is he said something ignorant. Look it up. DaBaby thought he was being funny/macho/who knows (who cares), when he said what he said on stage at Rolling Loud Miami on July 25, and he wasn’t. And so Madonna took DaBaby to school for it, so what more can I say […]
The Thing About ‘Tenet’
The thing about Tenet is it’s a palindrome with a twist: You can spell the title of Christopher Nolan’s latest opus the same backward and forward and you can enjoy the movie front to back and back again, too. Tenet’s science fiction of the first rate. Don’t try to understand it, one of the characters […]
The Thing About Madonna’s ‘MDNA’
The thing about Madonna’s MDNA is – and pay no mind to this one, if you are underage – the album, maligned as though it may be, works surprisingly well on shuffle. On shuffle. With a side of spark it up. I remember this one time, in Miami, when I smoked a little bit of […]
The Thing About ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
You guys! Seventeen tumultuous, romantic, and engaging seasons in and Shonda Rhimes’ enduring network-TV hit, Grey’s Anatomy, still’s got it going on. Y’all watched last week’s two-hour COVID-centric season premiere, right? I mean! Not gonna front, I was all giddy and choke-up from the big surprise, ’cause not only had the powers that be pulled […]
The Thing About Borat
He’s baaack. Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat Sagdiyev, the (fictional) leading journalist from Kazakhstan’s State-run TV network and that nation’s now-fourth most famous man, has returned to the big screen after 14 years, a long time during which a lot has happened. For one, Borat was sacked from his […]
The Thing About a Vaccine
It has been a little more than eight months since COVID-19 insinuated itself into our lives, upending our local and global routines, and forcing (most of) us to take a real good look at ourselves and the culture and the world, and really consider our place on our planet. It has been an extended come-to-Jesus […]
The Thing About ‘Friends’
The thing about Friends is the show said what it needed to say at the time it said it. It was clumsy; it was downright awful, sometimes (you know, how they said whatever they said, especially in later seasons); and it was, for the most part, fun. I first watched the show, fondly, in Peru, […]
King of Cups 