Derrick Gravener loves TV and has recently started killing plants again (by accident). He's currently watching: Abbott Elementary, American Auto, Dickinson, Euphoria, RuPaul's Drag Race, and This Is Us
In the spirit of October and all things spooky, I turned back to American Horror Story, the show which an FX preview constantly reminds me is the show that “redefined a genre,” and maybe that’s true—its anthology horror structure makes for a new and terrifying start every season as it attempts to forge new ground. […] More
You’ve probably heard the news that Hulu cancelled High Fidelity by now. Perhaps it also left you feeling angry, betrayed, sad, and just plain confused. It seems as if series star Zoë Kravitz was also feeling some of the same things about the news, and I think those feelings are all still justified, even almost […] More
I found a bone in my salmon, and it’s very much a bone I would like to pick with Starz for cancelling Sweetbitter. It’s probably a show you’ve never heard of—I find Starz series often fall below the radar in peak TV times, save for maybe Outlander. (Vida is another often-overlooked Starz series you should […] More
When How to Get Away with Murder was added to the ABC Shondaland docket in 2014, it was a fresh, soapy, mysterious drama starring the legendary Viola Davis with killer (pun intended) plot twists. However, over the course of six years, what felt fresh became stale, what felt soapy became overly soapy, what was mysterious […] More
I should start this off with a confession: I’m a Weeds apologist. I know there’s a popular belief that Weeds got bad after it left Agrestic, but I’m here with a hot take to say that I disagree. Many would probably fight me to say that Weeds went on several seasons too long, which Showtime […] More
Sorry For Your Loss ended its first season with its characters learning painful truths about Matt (Mamoudou Athie) and about themselves. Most deeply shown is—of course—his widow Leigh (Elizabeth Olsen) who ends the season visiting the location where Matt died. She also learns that Matt’s brother Danny (Jovan Adepo) has developed feelings for her and […] More
The following contains spoilers from Season 3 of HBO Max’s Search Party. “This is me, Drew. This is who I’ve always been.” – Dory (S3E10) A classmate in a poetry seminar I was part of in college wrote this line that I think about often: “everyone keeps saying they don’t like the new Taylor Swift, […] More
The following contains spoilers from Episodes 1 through 5 of the third season of HBO Max’s Search Party. There are few things I would wait almost three years for. Sure, it feels somewhat normal to wait that long for an album, but a television show? Absolutely not. And then of course with an extended wait […] More
The following contains spoilers for The Politician Season 2. Time jumps don’t often go over well in television. Unless you are a show that is running out of steam. In a lot of ways, that is how the first season of Netflix’s The Politician felt until it took a time jump in the final episode […] More
“Okay, so what—I mean, should I just bail?” – Darby Carter in Episode 1 of Love Life, and also coincidentally me watching Episode 1. I was ready to write-off HBO Max’s flagship series Love Life as a waste of my time. I had convinced myself that new streaming services are destined to fail with their […] More
I don’t know if I want to sit across the table from Greg Daniels’ Upload for another season. I’m confused about what its companionship means to me. Are we true friends? Soulmates? Occasional hook-ups that end up going to The Poconos at a moment’s notice? Or am I the problem? Am I simply just too […] More
Vida, Starz’s masterful half(ish)-hour dramedy said its final goodbye Sunday night, and in doing so left a hole in my heart. Not because it was an incomplete ending by any means—mainly I’m sad because this lovely, funny, sad, little show gave life and space for stories (and pain) so rarely seen on television. Vida, which […] More
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