Donald Trump's Very Professional Spokesperson Katrina Pierson Is Literally on a Reality Show

Most people are lucky to land one prominent role as a TV villain, but Katrina Pierson has two: Not only does she appear on cable news almost every night defending the unhinged, hateful words of her boss Donald Trump, she’s also somehow a cast member of “Sisters in Law,” a reality TV show about lawyers, I think.
Melissa Harris-Perry Is Probably Not Coming Back to MSNBC
After a very public spat with MSNBC over airtime, the television host Melissa Harris-Perry is probably not going to return to the network, or to her eponymous show.
Vice's TV Network: High Prices, Low Ratings
In one short month, Vice Media’s new cable network “Viceland” will launch. It has a business model that could revolutionize television advertising.
Megyn Kelly Is a Horrible Person
What if, a recent piece of speculative fiction in Vanity Fair wonders aloud, Megyn Kelly isn’t a poisonous bigot and shameless cable news demagogue, but a complex, flawed icon of modern feminism? Like most science fiction, this is a pack of lies meant for babies. Megyn Kelly is just as racist—or cynically willing to…
The Year in Gay
In the early 1950s, writer Patricia Highsmith had every reason to hide her pride, and quite a few to hate herself. Living under the tyranny of McCarthyism was devastating for those with same-sex attraction—if homosexuality was acknowledged in public at all, it was condemned. And yet, Highsmith transcended.
Making a Murderer Is Good, But What Is It Good For?
First, let’s toast to Netflix’s impeccable timing. It’s hard to imagine a better moment when the platform could have released Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos’s series Making a Murderer. Its target audience of socially conscious liberals with the kind of disposable income that can fund a Netflix subscription and the…
The Leftovers Is a Great Model for Coping With Other People's Religion
“Everybody is wondering what and where they all came from,” rang out Iris DeMent’s jubilant voice every week during the opening credits of HBO’s second season of The Leftovers. She continued: “Everybody is worrying about where they’re gonna go when the whole thing’s done / But no one knows for certain and so it’s all…
The Ultimate Guide to Amazon Prime Benefits
Amazon has added so many benefits to Prime that they’ve become hard to keep track of, so we’re rounding them up for you, and will update this post as new ones roll out. Sadly, we can’t list drone delivery as a perk just yet.
Everything Is Fucking: True Detective's Too-Complex Episode 7 Explained

Forget that hack Rick Springfield: What if The Beatles themselves predicted the outcome of True Detective Season Two—way back in 1969? Spoilers ahead.
Beaten Into Exposition: True Detective Episode Five Explained

I play along with the charade/That doesn’t seem to be a reason to change/I feel so dirty when they start talking clues/Wanna tell them I’m a detective but I just get the blues/‘Cause she’s solving it with those eyes/Investigating with that brain, I just know it/I’m the true detective/And I wish that I had Jessie’s…




