In Kindergarten, making friends was the first practicum. It became an empirical affair leaning on a trial-and-error approach we’d picked…
Television
Nimrod (Guri Alfi) keeps his counsel, and when social convention demands that he go along to get along, he doesn’t….
Theater Highlights: My two favorite theater events this year both originated at Soho Rep, the adventurous company that recently decided…
1. Somebody, Somewhere (HBO) The only upside to Bridget Everett’s funny, heart-tugging ensemble dramedy ending after only three seasons is…
Without revealing the skewering spoilers, there is little point in reviewing “Disclaimer” because one deprives the reader of the film’s…
In 2020, 12 Years A Slave Director Steve McQueen created a sweepingly cinematic anthology miniseries for the BBC called Small…
1. RESERVATION DOGS (FX on Hulu) The Rez Dogs stuck the landing in a final season packed with everything that…
1. STRANGER THINGS (Netflix) The Duffer Brothers put their kids on bikes (and the grown-ups who love them) through hell…
by Andrew Osborne While many of the projects screened this year at South by Southwest are still making the rounds…
My cultural round-up has usually centered on theater. This year theater finally did come back and hooray for that but…
To prepare for seeing “The Many Saints of Newark,” I went back to look at a few episodes of “The…
Academic “Wokery” undergoes top drawer peer review in the new Netflix Original Series created by Amanda Peet and Amanda Wyman….
First-day-on-the-job jitters take on new meaning when your boss was a judge at the Nuremberg trials for Nazi war criminals….
TV has rarely been more central to our lives than it was in 2020, when it suddenly became a lifeline…