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Bad Dad Jokes: On Lucas Mann’s “Attachments”
Adam Fleming Petty reviews Lucas Mann’s “Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performance,” rooting his analysis in his personal experience.
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen
Be the Alien: On Julio Torres’s “Problemista”
Enzo Escober reviews Julio Torres’s body of work, but most of all, his debut feature, “Problemista.”
The Past Is Never Dead: On TV’s Backstory Problem
In the latest Screen Shots column, Elizabeth Alsop explores the ubiquity—and limitations—of the “trauma backstory.”
Respect Is Just a Minimum: On HBO Max’s “Rap Sh!t”
Alyx Vesey bemoans the cancellation of HBO Max’s series about a female hip-hop duo, “Rap Sh!t.”
Watching Pixels Die: Sony, HBO, and “The Last of Us”
Maria Bose and Jason Willwerscheid analyze corporate moves to adapt prestige video games into prestige TV.
Hollywood’s Nomads: On Pamela Robertson Wojcik’s “Unhomed”
Ned Resnikoff reviews Pamela Robertson Wojcik’s “Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema.”
Awaiting Apocalypse at a Red Light: On Radu Jude’s “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World”
Julia Gunnison reviews Radu Jude’s “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.”
The Red Shredding: On Netflix’s “3 Body Problem”
Christopher T. Fan reviews Netflix’s new show “3 Body Problem.”
Wake Up, Sleepyhead: On David Thomson’s “Remotely”
Peter Campion reviews David Thomson’s “Remotely: Travels in the Binge of TV.”
Girls Gone Wild? On Apple TV+’s “The Buccaneers”
Sheila Liming gets to the bottom of Apple TV+ and Katherine Jakeways’s “The Buccaneers.”
Apple’s Gimmick: On “Fingernails” and the TV+ Brand
Michael Szalay compares apples and Apples in parsing the streamer’s strategy financially, aesthetically, narratively, and otherwise.
The New Lurid
Sean T. Collins explores a quartet of sleazy, sensual, sensational shows from 2023 that dared to go beyond prestige-TV dramedy realism.
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