Jeselnik delivers most of his jokes with the same even-paced, slightly-mocking voice. Often, the punchline is his knack for making genuine questions sound completely disingenuous.
Sunday, September 8, 2019 - 4:20pm
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - 6:29pm
“On Becoming a God in Central Florida”’s pilot is a promising springboard into future explorations of capitalism and the rehabilitating effects of MLM companies. Oh, and maybe a Kirsten Dunst performance of a lifetime.
Monday, September 2, 2019 - 5:12pm
Twenty years later for “Good Eats: The Return,” the recipe clearly hasn’t changed, but that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 7:52pm
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a show asking its audience to challenge themselves morally. However, I take offense when a show makes it abundantly obvious how it wants its audience to feel.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 7:39pm
No TV show addresses pain in all its forms quite like HBO’s “Big Little Lies.” In fact, deep physical and emotional distress plays such a large part in the show that it’s almost its own character.
Wednesday, May 29, 2019 - 5:21pm
Season 2 is glorious. It’s devastating. It’s heartwarming. It’s cruel. All of this is true of its first season as well, but season 2 somehow finds a way to magnify its greatness in what could only be described as a colossal improvement.
Monday, April 22, 2019 - 1:52pm
“Seau,” a new “30 for 30” documentary from ESPN, follows the tragic undoing of the charismatic linebacker, whose suicide in 2012 ignited a long-overdue national conversation about the likelihood of football players to suffer chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease.
Sunday, April 21, 2019 - 4:50pm
For better or for worse, “Game of Thrones” is a markedly different show than it was four or five seasons ago.
Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 3:05pm
The scheming and manipulating, of course, is at the heart of “Killing Eve.” At surface-level, the show is a kind of mindless, stylish caper. But really, it’s so much more: a meditation on the female psyche, a study in power and vulnerability, an open question about what a woman can or should do to get ahead.
Monday, April 15, 2019 - 8:52pm
Though not only for theater nerds, the FX miniseries “Fosse/Verdon” requires a bit more background than usual to appreciate the story it tells. The works of Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell, “Vice”), director of legendary musicals and movies such as “Chicago” and “Cabaret,” are household names by now, this series instead focusing on his relationship with his wife Gwen Verdon (Michelle Williams, “Venom”), one of the greatest Broadway actresses/dancers of all time.