High Maintenance: Season 1 (2016)
Unlike some of my other write ups, this isn’t a complete review – I’ve only seen two of the six episodes of High Maintenance and probably won’t watch any more in the [...]
Television
Westworld: Season 1 (2016)
Styling itself as HBO’s next big successor to Game of Thrones, Westworld arrived ten weeks ago shrouded in secrecy. While we knew that this was going to be an adaptation of [...]
Goldenberg: A Deadly Adoption (2015)
Although it may have prompted James Franco to reimagine Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?, it’s clear, from the very outset, that Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Lifetime [...]
Aitkenhead: Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? (2016)
While Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? may be billed as an adaptation of the 1996 Lifetime cult classic, the real adaptation actually happened several years ago. At a [...]
Montesi: Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? (1996)
Although we often hear about how mainstream cinema and television is driven by the male gaze – an equation of patriarchal values with the act of watching – it’s often [...]
The Girlfriend Experience: Season 1 (2016)
I’ve never worked in a corporate law firm, but many of my friends have, and from the anecdotes they’ve told me I’d wager that The Girlfriend Experience is one of the [...]
Gilmore Girls: Season 1 (2000)
At the turn of the millennium, the WC debuted a show with a singular premise: a mother and a daughter who are just fine being a family of two. After Lorelai [...]
The Twilight Zone S01E03: “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” (1959)
Although “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” was the third episode of The Twilight Zone, it feels like the spiritual sequel to “Where Is Everybody”, the magisterial opening [...]
The Twilight Zone S01E01: “Where Is Everybody?” (1959)
The first ever episode of The Twilight Zone, “Where Is Everybody?” was not only a high watermark for the series, but for anthology series and televisual suspense more [...]
And Then There Were None (2015)
Although Agatha Christie is famous the world over for Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, her most adapted work is And Then There Were None, originally released under the rather [...]