August TV Preview: Don’t Miss These 10 Premieres
To say August is a TV desert is to illustrate just how quickly this era of Peak TV has changed the television landscape. Sure, there aren’t as many new and returning series premiering in August as...
View ArticleThis Week’s Top 5 TV Picks
There are scores of TV shows out there, with dozens of new episodes each week, not to mention everything you can find on Hulu Plus, Netflix streaming, and HBO Go. How’s a viewer to keep up? To help you...
View Article‘I Love Dick’ and the Narrative Power of a Neurotic Woman
We hear the heroine of I Love Dick before we see her, shouting across a tiny Manhattan apartment as she and her husband pack for a trip. Played with manic exuberance by Kathryn Hahn, Chris Kraus — also...
View ArticleAmazon Orders a Full Season of ‘I Love Dick’ (And Some Other Shows)
Praise Goddess: Amazon has greenlit I Love Dick, a half-hour dramedy based on Chris Kraus’s seminal, autobiographical 1997 novel of the same name. The pilot of I Love Dick, adapted for the screen by...
View ArticleThe Year in TV: The 15 Best Performances of 2016
We usually don’t tune into TV shows for the actors the way we might trek to the multiplex for the new Meryl Streep or Mark Wahlberg star vehicle. TV actors tend to worm their way into our hearts over...
View ArticleJill Soloway’s Kathryn Hahn/Kevin Bacon-Starring ‘I Love Dick’ Gets a Release...
Dick will be loved this Spring. Which is to say, actually, that fiction, memoir and television will collide in a satirical story about personal discontent and obsession within the confines of one...
View ArticleKevin Bacon is “Like a Roman God, Bringing the Spirit of Sex Into Our Lives”...
Jill Soloway’s pilot for her TV adaptation of Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick wooed critics with its surprisingly dextrous take on seemingly adaptation-proof material. The 1997 novel — which exploded in...
View ArticleMay TV Preview: Don’t Miss These 10 Premieres
Netflix rules May with a slew of new and returning series, not to mention standup specials from the likes of Maria Bamford, Norm Macdonald, and Tracy Morgan, who returns to the public stage this month...
View ArticleFlavorwire’s Big-Ass Summer TV Preview
At long last summer is upon us, and Netflix has taken the opportunity to smother us with their #content. As the networks wind down their regular scripted series and dial up the reality-show insanity,...
View ArticleThis Week’s Top 5 TV Picks
There are scores of TV shows out there, with dozens of new episodes each week, not to mention everything you can find on Hulu Plus, Netflix streaming, and HBO Go. How’s a viewer to keep up? To help you...
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