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Everything Gay Is ‘New’ Again: Ryan Murphy Returns To Form
First of all, full disclosure: I hate Glee. Glee has experienced a bit of a backlash over the past year or so (due to a dip in quality, I hear — considering how bad it was at its peak, I shudder to...
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Well Played, Netflix: ‘House Of Cards’ Chapters 1-3
(Originally posted on Justin + 7.) I figured I’d be writing something about the Oscars today, as I normally would do a few days before the big show, but since I have been covering them since the...
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‘Orange’ Juicy: Netflix Is The New Showtime
Yes, I’m talking about it too. If you’re a twenty- or thirty-something with access to the internet, I find it hard to imagine that you’ve escaped hearing anything about Orange Is The New Black, the...
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‘Breaking Bad’ Season Five Part Two Premiere: “Blood Money”
“Tread lightly.” One episode into the new season (okay, technically, new half-season) of Breaking Bad, we’ve already got our latest lingo from AMC’s stellar series, the one I’d claim is the best...
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‘Breaking Bad’ Season Five: “Buried”
“Am I under arrest?!” We had no idea what we were in for with the final half of the final season of Breaking Bad. Well… we had a pretty good idea of a few things we’d see — Hank confronting Walt about...
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‘Breaking Bad’ Season Five: “Confessions”
“He really did a number on you, didn’t he?” Hoo boy! The final season (okay, half-season) of Breaking Bad is officially underway. There have been two pretty solid episodes so far, “Blood Money” and...
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‘Breaking Bad’ Season Five: “Rabid Dog”
“Mr. White’s gay for me. Everybody knows it.” Possibly the biggest question mark surrounding the second half of Breaking Bad‘s fifth season pertained to Walt and Jesse’s relationship — it’s been a...
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‘Breaking Bad’ Season Five: “To’hajiilee”
“Baby, I got him.” There isn’t a single episode of Breaking Bad that doesn’t advance the story and the characters in intriguing, insightful, and surprising ways. This show does not waste any of our...
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‘Breaking Bad’ Season Five: “Ozymandias”
“The reaction has begun.” Leave it up to Breaking Bad to kill off one of the four leads in an episode and have that not be the scene everyone is talking about. Last week’s “To’hajiilee” was, for me, a...
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‘Breaking Bad’ Season Five: “Granite State”
“Why don’t you just die already?” For once, the Sunday night television conversation was centered around a different series last night — Dexter, and how utterly disappointing the finale was. I’ve only...
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‘Looking’ Fine: The Good, The Bad & The Beards
Hey dude. Sup? Looking? That’s the 21st century equivalent of wandering into a bathhouse or the obfuscating brush of a city park at night. Most gay men I know have never gone to either of these places...
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‘Looking’ Again: “Looking For Uncut”
Sup? U looking for now? Hello? Dude? U there? For a show that’s not terribly exciting, Looking sure has generated a lot of scintillating conversation. HBO’s new half-hour drama premiered last week with...
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‘Breaking Bad’ Series Finale: “Felina”
“I did it for me. I liked it.” And so it ends. Can I now safely say that Breaking Bad was the best TV drama there ever was? Not without watching a whole lot of other TV dramas I haven’t caught up with...
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Orphan Is The New Bad: The Best Fucking TV Of 2013
And now it’s time to talk TV. I don’t watch a whole lot of TV, compared to the average American. The number of reality shows I watch regularly — or ever, unless I’m a captive audience — is zero. (Yes,...
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‘Looking’ For The Point: “Looking At Your Browser History”
It only took three episodes for Looking to get around to having some actual conflict. And… maybe… a point. The third episode of HBO’s much-discussed Looking introduces two new characters and decides...
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‘Looking’ For A Shirt: “Looking For $220/Hr”
When I first heard HBO’s new gay show would be set in San Francisco, I thought it was a bit strange. A gay show set in San Francisco, really? What is this, 1985? As it turns out, the creators of...
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‘Looking’ Better: “Looking For The Future”
Okay, here we go. We’re now officially more than halfway through Looking‘s first season, and we’ve finally gotten the series’ first pretty great episode. Sure, Looking‘s detractors can still complain...
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‘Looking’ For A Boyfriend: “Looking In The Mirror”
Last week’s “Looking For The Future” was the first time in Looking‘s still-brief run that the show actually took a narrative and creative risk, allowing a single date between Patrick and Richie to...
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‘Looking’ For Commitment: “Looking For A Plus One”
There’s only one episode left in Looking‘s first season, and unless they really fuck it up (which is entirely possible), it will go down as a lop-sided debut, with the first four episodes getting off...
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‘Looking’ For Friends: “Looking Glass”
And so we’ve come to the end. Of Season One, anyway. And it’s time to think about what we’ve been Looking at all this while. Looking began with a would-be hookup in broad daylight in a public park. It...
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