If you know me, you know that unchecked and irrational nostalgia for the 1980s, whether in real life or in film or in television or literally frigging anything, makes me want to hurl. So imagine my delight to find that It doesn’t indulge in nostalgia; it just reroots the King story in the 1980s, with only … Continue reading
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WBUR’s Fall TV Preview Guide-o-matic
I put together a big ol’ list piece for The ARTery about what’s coming to television this Fall season. There’s a lot! Some of it even looks good! (Some of it, by contrast, looks like hot garbage, but I didn’t write about any of that stuff. I just wrote about stuff that I think looks … Continue reading
Paste Magazine’s Best 16 New Shows Of 2016
It’s year-end time, folks, and Paste Magazine’s TV section has already kicked off the season by naming its picks for the best shows of the year, plus its picks for the best new shows of the year, which I contributed two write-ups for. (Guess which ones!) I don’t mind saying aloud and right off the bat that … Continue reading
“In the Beginning, There Was TV”
We all get nostalgic sometimes. When we do, things like the Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things happen. Also: This big ol’ joint feature by all of us TV types at Paste Magazine, in which we each wax poetic about our bygone days of TV watching and talk about our favorite TV memories. Those of you who know … Continue reading