Archive for the 'Television' Category


Ye On SNL

Kanye West’s pro-Trump remarks prompt boos in SNL studio What kind of crazy fucked-up world do we live in where a black musician takes the white viewpoint and gets traction? One in which there’s no white musician of stature to stand up to him. Except, of course, maybe a country musician. Then again, Eric Church […]

Distribution Is King Redux

Last night we watched “Active Measures” on Hulu. You didn’t see it. It’s had little impact. Because Hulu has few subscribers. To tell you the truth, I wouldn’t have seen it either, except the outlet gave me a three month subscription to view another of their shows. Last weekend Michael Moore opened his new movie […]

The Emmy Ratings

Goin’ down…down, down, down, down, DOWN! As Don Nix so famously wrote. What did they used to say, tweeting would save event television? That live was everything? Utter hogwash. You’ve got to read the pundits’ comments on why the Emmy ratings tanked. The shows were too sophisticated, they didn’t feature meat and potato actors, the […]

Ozark

Felice has been asking me every month, “When is ‘Ozark’ coming back?” They’ve got those preview issues in “Entertainment Weekly,” the newspapers, all about the coming books, movies, flicks and shows. And I don’t pay attention to a one of them. I just immediately throw them in the trash, I’m not looking forward to anything […]