Netflix’s Iron Fist Is a Tedious, Unremarkable Bummer
Coming on the heels of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, this show feels like a regression.
Coming on the heels of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, this show feels like a regression.
These are the kinds of crimes that might not make a major newspaper. Which is the point.
I’ve never seen anything like it.
On this week’s Vulture TV Podcast, we explore the Murphyverse.
Here, as always, The Americans does complex work that never calls attention to its complexity.
Ryan Murphy’s limited series is a critique of Hollywood misogyny that fixates on its female stars’ pettiness and cruelty toward each other.
Plus, processing that big episode of Girls.
Who is the audience for Patriot? I’m not sure, but the fact that it makes me ask that question counts as praise in my book.
From Jon Hamm to Jennifer Aniston.
But it’s still a must-see thanks to extraordinary performances from Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, and Adam Scott.
“There are certain classic situations that have been done a million-zillion times.”
You have to accept the totality, including the parts you can’t stand, otherwise you can’t watch the show at all.
I found myself laughing out loud at the sheer audacity of the damned thing.
Moody teenagers!
You’ll probably let Netflix keep cycling through to the next episode rather than switching over to something else.
"I now realize that Emily Gilmore is always right and the real heroine of the show."
"It's not every day that, as a woman, you get to run the show."
She leaves behind a transformed TV landscape, more respectful of the emotional lives of women.
A conversation about this odd duck of a show.
It's five or six shows in one, and not necessarily in a good way.