Since You’re the Worst’s premiere, sincere, cynical television shows have become more popular, lauded for their dark and dramatic explorations of depression, failure and identity. You’re the Worst deserves all this praise and more, as it continues to tell the stories of painfully insecure, commitment-phobic adults who are searching for meaning in the worst possible ways.
FXX’s newest comedy shows a lot of promise, mainly due to its willingness to dive into absurd fantasy sequences that are not only funny, but help deepen the audience’s understanding of the lead character and his relationships to others.
Archer: Season 6 Airs Thursdays at 10m ET on FXX, starting January 8th When it was first announced, Archer Vice, AKA the completely serialized fifth season of Archer, blew minds. The notion of a popular comedy ditching its usual episodic-with-bits-of-serialization format, changing the occupations of its entire cast, and completely changing the locale for …
We reported earlier this week that all of humanity would begin to unravel when FXX’s marathon of all 552 episodes of The Simpsons begins on August 21, leaving 12 full days of waste, neglect and ass grooves in couches. Well that reality has come to pass in the latest ad promoting the marathon, bluntly stating …
For those who had heard the perfectly cromulent news that syndication for The Simpsons had been obtained by FXX and that they would kick it off with a marathon covering every episode of the show, you may have noticed the lack of a date on those juicy, little, 5-second teasers in between episodes of Louie …
While Wilfred doesn’t always take its titles head-on and through to their natural conclusions in the space of 20 minutes, “Loyalty” is an episode that manages to balance the ongoing mystery plot of the series’ final season with strikingly honest commentary on the concept of loyalty.
In the first two episodes of its final season, Wilfred embraces its mythology head-on. It’s hard to say whether or not this will go down well with viewers, because I don’t even know who is watching Wilfred anymore and why.
6. The Spoils of Babylon The Spoils of Babylon is an upcoming American comedy miniseries by Saturday Night Live veterans Andrew Steele and Matt Piedmont, directed by Piedmont (Casa de Mi Padre), and starring Tobey Maguire, Kristen Wiig, Tim Robbins, Jessica Alba, Val Kilmer, Haley Joel Osment, Michael Sheen, and Will Ferrell. It’s doubtful that any …