A few weeks ago, my wife and I sat down to watch the reboot of Queer Eye. We were a bit skeptical. After all, the original debuted fifteen years ago, at the beginning of the reality-TV boom a...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/08/a-gentler-reality-television/
Lucas Mann’s love letter to his wife—and to the jacked-up emotions of reality TV. When we were first getting into The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, the husband of one of the show’...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/02/a-reckoning-with-reality-tv/
Because we haven’t figured out how to actually solve the various things happening in our country, for now we’re relying pretty heavily on humor. Contemporary political humor has many forms, b...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/17/wholesome-yet-filthy-comedy-katya-trixie/
When I watched ‘Dawson’s Creek’ in the nineties, I was outraged. We—that is, us teens—were not only misunderstood but misrepresented! That wasn’t us at all!
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/07/17/creek-theses/
Vince Gilligan borrows from the Baroque. The eldest character in Better Call Saul isn’t Mike Ehrmantraut, Tuco’s unsuspecting abuelita, or any of the nursing-home residents shakily spooning g...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/23/better-call-caravaggio/
Once called the “friend of every insomniac in Southern California,” Cal Worthington haunted the nether regions of broadcast programming for more than sixty years. Judging by the frequency of ...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/10/09/death-of-a-salesman/
What’s Christmas without some ancient demons embedded in the chimney? On the evening of December 25, 1972, BBC viewers celebrated the birth of Christ by being scared to death. They learned that...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/12/21/keep-me-in-the-loop-you-dead-mechanism/
There’s a moment when thunderclouds smother the sunset and the chile ristras begin to sway, when bits of smoldering earth intertwine with invisible rain, and you’re tangled in tumbleweed magi...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/07/16/desert-moon-breaking-bad-in-the-american-southwest/
Warning: explicit images after the jump. Now that Game of Thrones has aired its second season, there has been no shortage of commentary about the amount of skin and sex on the Emmy-winning HBO dr...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/06/22/coitus-more-ferarum-in-game-of-thrones-nsfw/
Sunday. Father’s Day. It was a lovely day, high sixties and sunshine, the last spring wind before summer stills the air and AC units plug windows, dripping dirty water on my sunburnt, hairle...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/06/20/dear-don-draper/