Author: Graham Hillard
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Netflix’s Mr. McMahon reviewed: Professional wrestling is unsafe at any age
Watching Mr. McMahon, Netflix’s glossy new “sports entertainment” docuseries, the lapsed fan recalls all manner of wrastlin’ minutiae. Fresh off her best new artist win at the 1985 Grammys, Cyndi Lauper launched a brief second career as a World Wrestling Federation “manager” and mascot. WrestleMania II, a strange and unlovely affair, felt disjointed because it…
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Alien litigates the pandemic
A science experiment goes dangerously wrong. Quarantining the infected proves impractical or insufficient. Welcome to Alien: Coronavirus (sorry, Romulus), the franchise’s best and most evocative effort since Sigourney Weaver donned a mechanical exosuit in the classic 1986 sequel. Of course, the Alien movies have dredged ideological waters in the past, most famously in David Fincher’s…
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Hacks really is that good
It isn’t often that a critic gets to tackle three seasons of a television comedy at once. Still less frequently may he do so after binging the whole gut-busting run-in-progress in a matter of days. Yet here I am, fresh from 27 episodes of HBO’s hilarious, wise, and, yes, generous series Hacks. If the following…