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In ‘The Bear’ on Hulu, a Kitchen Staff Is Nearly Eaten Alive
Movies and TV shows about the inner workings of the culinary world have let us peek into restaurant kitchens before. But FX’s new “The Bear” is the first to force you to work in one. As the series (streaming on Hulu) opens, the young chef Carmen Berzatto has left behind a soaring career, replete with […]
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The Wild History of the Real ‘Only Murders’ Building
One Friday evening in early June, Debbie Marx, a Latin teacher and longtime Belnord resident, led a visitor through her unrenovated classic seven, its meandering, book-lined hallways a time capsule from 1959, the year her parents moved in. Her father, Josef Marx, was an oboist and musicologist who had his own music publishing company; her […]
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How ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ Took On Murder and the Mormon Church
The murders shocked the small town of American Fork, Utah, where they happened, about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. They also shocked the church at large. Years later, however, many aspects of the killings remained obscure, and Krakauer wanted to know how that murderer could “kill a blameless woman and her baby so […]
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New Hulu Series, ‘The Dropout,’ Wants to Humanize Elizabeth Holmes
Honestly, it’s been amazing to be able to do something that isn’t a comedy. But coming from comedy, I was very interested in the absurdities of the world. Because as I learned more about Silicon Valley, and how everything works, it can be an absurd place. And the performance aspect of her character — the […]
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‘Pam & Tommy’ Review: The Internet Is for Porn
Episode 4 of Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy” begins as the website pamsextape.com loads on a mid-90s IBM desktop computer — the gaudy typeface screaming “PAMELA’S HARDCORE SEX VIDEO,” the titillating photos of Pamela Anderson and her husband Tommy Lee loading one strip of pixels at a time. After watching the scene, I typed the URL […]
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‘Pam & Tommy’: A Story of Sex, Crimes and Videotape
To that end, the show took measures, DeVincentis said, to underscore the vastly diverging ways in which Anderson and Lee lived through the events. Lewis, who wrote the Rolling Stone article, was a consultant for the series; two of the writers were women, and later episodes were directed by women, including Lake Bell, Gwyneth Horder-Payton […]
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Can CNN’s Hiring Spree Get People to Pay for Streaming News?
A couple of months ago, CNN’s forthcoming streaming channel was perceived as little more than a curiosity in the television news business: just another cable dinosaur trying to make the uneasy transition into the digital future. In fact, the plan to start CNN+, which is expected to go live by late March, amounted to a […]
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Can Works Like ‘Don’t Look Up’ Get Us Out of Our Heads?
Next month, Hulu will premiere the mini-series “Pam & Tommy,” a fictionalized account of the release of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s personal sex tape, which was stolen from their home in 1995 and sold on what was then called the “World Wide Web.” The show presents the tape as helping the web become more […]
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How Do You Make Teen Comedies Today? Buy a High School.
Chris Weitz, the co-director of “American Pie” and one of the producers of Ms. Cohen’s film, attributes the shift to technology that puts audiences in control. “It was one thing when the gatekeepers, usually old fogies, controlled what kind of content was going to be put out about teens,” he said. “Now teens can get […]
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