In this post, Vernacular’s resident satirist picks on their favorite shows and movies streaming for the month of August.
TV shows
Enough with the “Vikings” and the runes and all that, History Channel and her imitators.
I have been rowing my way on a rowing machine through the fifth season of Vikings. It is a gloomy slog for the times I am deep involved in my own gloomy slog. Two things stand out to me, in… Read More ›
FEED by M.T. Anderson and THE FEED Episodes 1-3
The show is hard to watch, at some points, for reasons you wouldn’t expect.
Hilda Season 2 Proves Why Hilda is the Hero We Need for our Dark Times
The magical world of Hilda, available as a graphic novel, and as an excellent animated series on Netflix, is a pure delight. The excellent first season introduces a world imbued with magical life and possibilities, where a complex web of… Read More ›
UTOPIA is an addicting drug
Utopia (Amazon Prime) is like a free fall into a parallel universe with No Country for Old Men-style killers running around. Created by Gillian Flynn, (Gone Girl) the show opens at a Comic Convention with secret bidding on Dystopia, the… Read More ›
In Cobra Kai Season 2, Parents Watch Kids Navigate Cults They Created, Confront Dangers of one-size-fits-all Philosophies
Cobra Kai is a startling depiction of how cults start, recruit followers, and become dangerous.
Cobra Kai: After Fight Breaks Out at Strip Mall, Local Man Questions Whether White Men Without Guns are Dangerous
By Emilia Barrett SAN FERNANDO–After a fight broke out outside his bodega, DaSean Lopez found himself evaluating customers differently. “Before when a man came in looking all broken, buying domestic [beer] it wasn’t a thing. No one looked twice [at… Read More ›
A stilted and broken future full of stilted and broken people: UPLOAD on Amazon Prime
I have spent too much of my reading energy, of late, hunched over edits on a forthcoming title. When my eyes hurt, and my kid is asleep, and the house is mostly quiet, I may stop and try to recharge… Read More ›
Space Force is Still Looking for Space Legs
Certain brands of media have not aged well in the era of redcaps and coronavirus and the fracturing of reality, itself, around political ideas. “Parks and Recreation” was a charming little show, that began a bit stumbled and disoriented, but… Read More ›
The Warped Lens: A Review of Richard Kadrey’s The Getaway God and episode 1 of HBO’s Watchmen
Sometimes, being late to the party is a good thing. Those who know me know the last few months have been a struggle, and that struggle has created a longing for comfort; to return to familiar places and stories long… Read More ›