A review of this week’s Winning Time, “Acceptable Loss,” coming up just as soon as I wear some pants with my suit… The season finale is called “Promised Land,” and its penultimate episode this week takes the Lakers all the way to the brink of such a place. They are …
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A review of this week’s Atlanta, “White Fashion,” coming up just as soon as my taste buds are scammed by a Nigerian prince… Atlanta is back in social satire mode with the exceedingly sharp “White Fashion,” the kind of tale where if you didn’t laugh, you’d scream — and wind …
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A review of this week’s Winning Time, “Invisible Man,” coming up just as soon as I blame the dramatist in me… “Invisible Man” takes its title from a conversation Magic and Kareem have prior to the Lakers’ season-defining road game against their arch-rivals, the Boston Celtics. Magic has spent much …
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A review of this week’s Winning Time, “Memento Mori,” coming up just as soon as I ask not to be buzzard fucked… Two of the three main stories of “Memento Mori” involve making the best of a bad situation in the moment, while the third seems to involve someone taking …
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A review of this week’s Winning Time, “Pieces of a Man,” coming up just as soon as my weasel watches this… Though Magic Johnson was the flashy new addition to this Lakers roster, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the face of the team. He was perhaps the greatest college basketball player ever, …
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A review of this week’s Atlanta, “The Old Man and the Tree,” coming up just as soon as I make sure Doja Cat isn’t doing the same thing… Late in “The Old Man and the Tree,” Darius gets into a philosophical discussion with one of the few other nonwhite guests …
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A review of this week’s Winning Time, “Who the F**k is Jack McKinney,” coming up just as soon as we kill the duck… If not for the unfortunate fact of HBO’s longtime pay-cable rival having the same name, Winning Time would have come into this world known as Showtime. That’s …
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After a four-year wait that felt even longer, Atlanta is finally back. A spoiler-filled review of the third season’s first two episodes, “Three Slaps” and “Sinterklaas is Coming to Town,” coming up just as soon as you get me 300 pieces of fried chicken, all legs… A perverse part of …
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“The Swan” begins a dozen years after the events of the rest of the episode. Earvin Johnson Jr., better known to the world as Magic, is sitting in a doctor’s office, anxiously rubbing his hands, whispering inaudibly to himself. As he exits, the nurses and other staff gaze on him …
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A review of this week’s Succession, “Too Much Birthday,” coming up just as soon as I say no to the tiny Wu-Tang Clan… Plotwise, the most significant event of “Too Much Birthday” comes right after the opening theme song has finished: Gerri informs the inner circle that Waystar Royco will …
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