3 posts tagged ‘Magazine / On Television’
“The Franchise” Gives Hollywood the “Veep” Treatment
The New Yorker,
Satirizing the superhero-blockbuster business, HBO’s new comedy finds mostly easy targets, but eventually something more.
“True Detective: Night Country” Finds the Heart of Darkness
The Jodie Foster-led revival of HBO’s prestige police procedural balances supernatural flourishes with distinctly human horrors.
“The Curse” Holds a Mirror Up to Marriage
The new Showtime series, starring Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone, takes aim at everything from reality television to white-liberal virtue signalling—but it works best as the study of an unhappy couple.