Why isn’t Sofia Vergara a bigger movie star?
She owns the ‘highest-paid TV actresses’ list, but can she become a silver screen star too? Continue Reading
Television
Phil Keating, FOX News, and the most American way to bring in 2014
Watch the above video. It’s about 47 seconds long. I can’t think of a more American way for 2014 to be ushered in: random Miami-based FOX News personality stumbling around oddly proclaiming how great it is that bars don’t close at… Continue Reading
Would it be objectively possible to pick the best episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” ever?
The short answer to the title of this post is “Probably not,” although many have tried: here, here and here, for example. The reason I think it’d be a challenge isn’t necessarily that there’s so many great episodes — there are —… Continue Reading
These Amazon Studios original shows — “Betas” and “Alpha House” — are actually pretty good, as is Amazon’s model
I’ve been devouring these two new shows on Amazon Prime Video, Betas and Alpha House. I say “devouring” but that’s probably not the right word — more on that in a second. Just quick backstory: Betas is about an app launch in… Continue Reading
Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake might save SNL tonight
Fallon is hosting, and Timberlake — a five-time host himself — is the “musical guest.” It’s been an uneven season for Saturday Night Live (Kerry Washington episode was good, John Goodman episode was meh, and some episodes were entirely forgettable), but this… Continue Reading
Why isn’t Rian Johnson doing more TV?
Rian Johnson is a director/writer/editor. You may know him from Brick, The Brothers Bloom, or Looper, which are some of his main films (the latter, Looper, did pretty well at the box office). If you were a fan of TV in 2013, though, you… Continue Reading
What’s the best holiday season ad of all-time?
This Apple ad about how the teenage generation is digitally misunderstood dropped a couple of days ago. It’s pretty good and fairly emotional (you might cry, as it seems like Time Magazine did). Got me thinking: the holiday season is really the… Continue Reading
Is someone like Jenna Marbles the future of the content medium?
I was looking around for some info to write a post about YouTube trends in 2013 — I honestly think YouTube is one of the coolest things that has ever graced the collective thing we call society — and came… Continue Reading