Emily St. James
Former Critic at Large
Latest articles by Emily St. James
Comedian Tom Arnold’s search for tapes that will bring down Donald Trump got him a TV show — and a fight with Mark Burnett.
Winners: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Netflix, and old people. Losers: Atlanta and The Handmaid’s Tale.
Handmaid’s Tale takes on Game of Thrones in Drama Series, while Atlanta and Mrs. Maisel face off in Comedy Series.
And it just might be the best artistic rumination on #MeToo and an age of terrible men yet.
The HBO comedy is better as a friendship story than as a love story.
The “Sean Penn goes to Mars” series is long, drawn-out, pretentious — and surprisingly moving and great.
The casting of a sex offender led to even more haphazard editing in a movie overstuffed with bad trims.
Hint: Every season of this show is both its best and worst season. (Except for Asylum. That one rules. Unquestionably.)
His exit from CBS was drawn-out and frustrating. But it’s the most concrete proof we have that #MeToo has changed show business.
Our biggest movies keep saving the world, but they never argue that the world is worth saving.