Might Gamby be less of an asshole than we initially thought? This week’s episode of Vice Principals certainly invites us to think so. Gamby is hit with a crisis of conscience once he realizes how the arson of her home and the vandalism of her school have affected Dr. Brown. Also, he sees that she’s […]
A word of warning: This review contains spoilers for the Netflix series Stranger Things. If you’re a child of the 1980s, watching the new Netflix series Stranger Things feels like taking a ride in Doc Brown’s DeLorean while chugging a case of Jolt Cola. Set in early 80s Indiana, Stranger Things references a wide swath […]
Netflix’s newest drama, the Baz Luhrmann 1970s fever- dream The Get Down, is definitely not its best. Already mired in delays and showrunner changes (Shawn Ryan, best known for his gritty FX cop drama The Shield, left early on in production and Luhrmann, the director behind Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby, took on the […]
Let’s not mince words: Vice Principals can be an uncomfortable show to watch. This stands to reason as the show’s titular leads, Neal Gamby (Danny McBride) and Lee Russell (Walton Goggins), are deeply unpleasant people. Episode three of the series, “The Field Trip,” focuses on one of the vice principals as Gamby forces himself into […]
BoJack Horseman is the best original series to come out of streaming giant Netflix, full stop. And its third season, which debuted in one fell swoop on July 22, continued to raise the bar for quality programming on Netflix and across television as a whole. Season three of BoJack pushed the boundaries of how dark […]
In my review last week for the pilot episode of Vice Principals, I questioned whether audiences would relate to two such unlikable protagonists. In the second episode, we learn more about vice principals Gamby (Danny McBride) and Russell (Walton Goggins), but that information mostly confirms our initial impressions. “A Trusty Steed” gives us a glimpse […]
Super Sonico is the mascot for Nitroplus, a Japanese software company who make visual novel video games and the face of a music festival sponsored by the company. That description would make anyone think that an anime series based on the character would be an awful idea, but it turns out she leads a sweet […]
HBO’s new half-hour comedy Vice Principals serves to prove that high school administrators can be as immature as their students, if not more so. Danny McBride (Pineapple Express) and Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight) play antagonistic vice principals jockeying for the head chair. The rivalry between the would-be heirs reaches a fever pitch after the […]
The season three finale of Silicon Valley, “The Uptick,” serves as a case study in anticlimactic serial storytelling. The previous nine episodes of the season ratcheted up the tension with regards to Pied Piper’s success as a company and Richard’s evolution as a CEO. In episode nine, “Daily Active Users” (reviewed here), Richard was forced […]
Nothing that happened in Game of Thrones‘s sixth season finale, “The Winds of Winter,” was particularly shocking. In fact, the episode’s most prominent moment had been predicted by fans for a number of weeks. But that was perfectly fine, as the episode offered a number of strong character moments and set things up for next […]
