The problem with our legal system, comedian Steven Wright points out, is that “99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.” He must have hit a nerve. In 2006, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America realized their…
FX’s Shōgun made history recently by winning 25 Emmy nominations. The historical drama, which is an adaptation of James Clavell’s 1975 bestselling novel, has been compared to HBO’s Succession — i.e., the three-time winner of the Primetime Emmy Award for…
Today I celebrate my 43rd birthday and this world around me is no longer my world. Am I a premature old man? Not at all, I’m just someone who sometimes embraces cynicism to survive in a hostile environment. I can…
Recently, in an article about the latest Netflix outing featuring the spectacularly unfunny comedienne Hannah Gadsby, I wrote the following: “The best 10 or 20 or 30 stand-ups in the English-speaking world could never get anywhere near the stage of…
Last week, Max, formerly known as HBO, dropped not one but two trailers for the second season of House of the Dragon, a series based off of George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood. The show is a prequel to Game…
Now that Netflix’s The Crown has finally come to an end, one of the most expensive and elaborate TV series around is Feud, created by Ryan Murphy, Jaffe Cohen, and Michael Zam and aired on FX and Hulu. Its first…
I still recall when my mother’s favorite daytime TV show was Dr. Phil Primetime. I’ve always liked the guy — just never enough to sit down for hours at a time to watch him sort through people’s messy lives. However,…
Connecticut in the Movies: From Dream Houses to Dark Suburbia By Illeana Douglas (Lyons Press, 352 pages, $40) Hollywood has had a longstanding fascination with Connecticut, as evidenced by the more than 200 films set in that state. In her…
At Monday’s Emmy Awards, LGBTQ issues commanded greater attention than did TV shows. The awards show featured a demand that TV spotlight more transgender characters, a defense of drag queen story hour, and a 10-second-long kiss between two men. “The…
