Great power, great responsibility
Doors of Perception
This is why I’m risking a stable career, and probably a solid 401(k), to go into the entertainment industry and hopefully write for television.
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The fabulousness of ‘Sex and the City’
For a show that hasn’t aged particularly well — or, many argue, well at all — “Sex and the City” has been insistently optimistic about its relevance since it ended in the early 2000s. The HBO hit revolving around the lives of four New York women in their thirties and
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Breaking down summer TV tropes
Summertime is an ideal time to plop down in front of the TV and take in all sorts of series that might’ve slipped past during the year.
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Private parts, pubic debate: an intro to grooming
Today, there are far safer methods of grooming than hot oil lamps.
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White boy talks ‘Girls’
Cutting Room Floor
When Lena Dunham first unveiled her new comedy “Girls” in the spring of 2012, she publicly marketed it as HBO’s own comment on “Sex and the City.” It wasn’t that much of a stretch. Four white women live in New York and have romantic misadventures. Hannah, Marnie, Jessa and Shoshanna
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Walk faster, damn it
Someone very wise once said, “It’s about the journey, not the destination.” Clearly, this person has never been late to class, as he or she would know that the destination matters very much, thanks. At UC Berkeley, it seems as though some students take this proverb seriously and walk as
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Custom Screening: Tootsie Pops and the city
In television terms, this column is a pilot…” is the opening statement I have arrived at as I reluctantly minimize the iTunes window that has been indulging my procrastination for the last two hours with back-to-back “Sex and the City” episodes. Remember that moment in “Pulp Fiction” when Jules tells
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