We have reached the end.
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I revisit the notorious Saturday Night Live episode that gave a grateful world the magical phrase, “Some of y’all are not washing your ass properly!”
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Did Louise Lasser have a nervous breakdown while hosting Saturday Night Live or was it all part of the act? Regardless, the result was one of the most excruciatingly awkward episodes in the show’s history.
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Charles Schulz spent four years making It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, a live-action/animation hybrid starring his own daughter Jill and Snoopy’s unpopular brother Spike. It did not go well.
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In this piece collected in my new book The Joy of Trash, I explore the infinite humiliations of Gal Gadot and Friends’ notorious cover of “Imagine” by some jerk.
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One of you kind souls paid me to write about the rightfully revered first season of True Detective. I cover episode 2 here. It’s unusual but in a good way!
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Peacock’s adaptation of the hit podcast Dr. Death has a lot to say about how chasing the American Dream at any cost can be murder.
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Don’t be put off by its title or its gimmicky-seeming central conceit: Pen15 is one of the deepest, darkest and just plain best shows on television.
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My crazy , patron-funded zig-zag through the non-musical life of David Bowie hits another weird detour in the form of The Hunger, a soft-core Showtime horror anthology based on the Tony Scott cult classic that Bowie inexplicably hosted for its second season and once even acted in.
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The world’s saddest man falls tragically in love with slinky, inky femme fatale Inque and Bruce, Terry and Barbara Gordon take on a silent assassin and the ghosts of the past in two fascinating episodes of Batman Beyond.
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