Category: Watching

  • Can We Talk About Forks?

    As a 45-year-old sud­den­ly adrift on the job mar­ket, the “Forks” episode of The Bear hit dif­fer­ent. Sure, “Fish­es” was an absolute tour-de-force, cap­i­tal “P” per­for­mance, and “Hon­ey­dew” was a pow­er­ful med­i­ta­tion on growth, but “Forks” spoke to me so direct­ly and hope­ful­ly. Watch­ing Richie trans­form from a lov­able, but deeply flawed dirt­bag liv­ing in…

  • Cat Power — Wanderer

    If a new album from Fred Thomas was­n’t enough, the news that Chan Mar­shall will be releas­ing her first record in six years made my week. I’m not usu­al­ly crazy about album trail­ers but I’ll make an excep­tion for Cat Pow­er. She’s one of those artists I don’t know I need until I hear it.…

  • Fred Thomas — Good Times Are Gone Again

    I saw Fred Thomas open for Eleanor Fried­berg­er last year at Third Man Records down­town. His ver­bose indie pop on last year’s Chang­er caught me com­plete­ly off guard. How had I over­looked an artist whose music so res­onat­ed with me? “Open Let­ter to For­ev­er” is the per­fect mix of poignan­cy and com­e­dy. It’s a song…

  • Life And How to Live It

    “Life. It’s lit­er­al­ly all we have. But is it any good?” Andy Daly’s For­est Mac­Neil takes Rick Steves’ sen­si­bil­i­ties and applies them to all man­ner of absur­di­ties. Review is great, but I guess this means we won’t get a Don de Mel­lo sitcom…for the daddies. Read more at A.V. Club.

  • True Detective

    I loved True Detec­tive. I’m still read­ing arti­cles about how the show will end and all the spec­u­la­tion sur­round­ing it. Heck, they could inter­view any­one who was on set, even if it was just for a day, and I’d prob­a­bly read that. Here’s the Vul­ture’s inter­view with the pro­duc­tion design­er talk­ing about the effort that went…