Photo: Netflix In the previous episode, we got a glimpse of what the Remens’ lives are like in the aftermath of losing their fortune; in “One Wedding and a Sex Pest,” we get to see the social circles to which their money admitted them. The dynamics set up by the wedding of one Georgia-Peach, …
Photo: Netflix The most shocking aspect of Lena Dunham’s Netflix series, Too Much, is that it looks, well, like a Netflix series. You know the aesthetic, even if you can’t quite name it: brightly lit interiors, dialogue filmed in rapid-cut close-ups, color grading that emphasizes jewel tones and makes your eyes slide off the …
Photo: Patrick McElhenney/FX Spoilers follow for the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia season-17 premiere, “The Gang F***s Up Abbott Elementary,” which premiered on FXX on July 9. On It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, “What is Dennis Reynolds doing?” is usually a question with a creepy answer. The bar owner, played for 20 years by …
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Photo: Sarah Shatz/PEACOCK Poker Face season two ends with human lie detector Charlie (Natasha Lyonne) hitching a ride to Wichita, Kansas, but are viewers going to be able to join her? Despite being one of its buzziest originals, the series has not yet been renewed by network Peacock for a third season. Created by …
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Photo: Watermelon Pictures In a run-down corner of Athens, two cousins hover in a park square, looking for tourists to steal from. They are refugees and scavengers, part of a community of Palestinian men whose pasts share many of the same hallmarks: childhoods spent in Syrian and Lebanese camps; separations from family while trying …
Photo: Netflix After half a season of 30-minute episodes, “Pink Valentine” gives us an hour-long tour through Jess’s former life with Zev. If “Ignore Sunrise” stretched the getting-to-know-you montage, “Pink Valentine” reverse-engineers it: We get a compressed version of how things fell apart. Shit does hit the fan between Jess and Felix, as predicted, …
Photo: Netflix In the series finale of Squid Game, Seong Gi-hun asserts that humans are not horses and that they should not be made to compete for money and other people’s entertainment. Squid Game: The Challenge is basically Netflix’s way of saying, “Yeah … but we’re gonna do it anyway.” Again. The reality competition …
Photo: Ralph Bavaro/PEACOCK Spoilers follow for the second season of Poker Face through season finale “The End of the Road,” which premiered on Peacock on July 10. In the world of Poker Face, if a petite, raspy-voiced itinerant who reflexively says “bullshit” in response to an untruth tries to befriend you, run. Human lie-detector …
Photo: Ana Blumenkron/Netflix At this point in the season, we’ve seen Jess and Felix in individual contexts — at home, at work, among friends and family — and we’ve seen them alone together, but until now, we hadn’t seen them be a couple in front of other people. An intense, private shared world is a …
Photo: Ralph Bavaro/PEACOCK Spoilers follow for the second season of Poker Face through finale, “The End of the Road,” which premiered on Peacock on July 10. When Patti Harrison first shows up in Poker Face, it’s with what protagonist Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne) describes as “kid-sister, golden-retriever energy.” Harrison’s Alex offers Charlie a patently …
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