Pop Culture

On Difficult Women and Wanting More

Megan Boone, of ‘The Blacklist,’ speaks out about women in film.

Roxane Gay dedicated Difficult Women, her most recent short story collection, to “difficult women, who should be celebrated for their…

The Truth

On ‘The Leftovers’ series finale.

Simply put, HBO’s The Leftovers is one of the best shows in television history. Hearing that the show is called The Leftovers and then hearing that it’s about life after “only” 2% of people disappear from Earth was meant rip a…

‘I’ll Bring the Coffee and the Donuts’

On the return of ‘Twin Peaks.’

On Sunday night, Twin Peaks returned to TV after almost twenty-six years off air. The timing was perfect, which the show alluded to in the first few moments of the premiere, when they…

‘Sometimes People Just Break’

Please watch ‘Chris Gethard: Career Suicide.’

“And I think to myself: you should hit the brakes,” Chris Gethard says, aware that he was in the other driver’s blindspot. “And then I think: no, don’t. Because this way it’s…

Comedy, Policy, and the Language of Casual Intimacy

The Debbie Downer Origin Story

Rachel Dratch revisits Massachusetts and supports women in comedy.

Rachel Dratch attended the Women in Comedy Festival in Boston this weekend, partaking in an interview and Q&A session Sunday morning. She…

‘The Stories We Tell Ourselves’

We need to talk about ‘Legion.’

FX’s new superhero series, Legion, is a bit like if someone had Wes Anderson direct a grownup Stranger Things by telling him the plot of X-Men but only showing him the first Hellboy movie. And…

Ryan Murphy’s Universe

The master of his sub-genre, whatever that is.

When Ryan Murphy first came to TV, it was as the co-creator (along with Gina Matthews) of the short-lived series Popular. Lasting two seasons and totaling forty-three episodes, The WB…