The first few months of the new year are the best. The temperature drops below -40°, the ice makes dog walking nearly impossible, and the best holiday is again almost a full year away, but it’s all good because it’s the Best TV Season. For 13 or so weeks in the dead of winter, my […]
IFC’s latest comedy Benders is about grown men who are obsessed with their division eight hockey league. Three episodes in, the bro-ish series from Tom Sellitti and Jim Serpico (both fresh from the Denis Leary stable) mostly just feels like a weak League imitation. Lindsey Broad is somewhat fun as a refreshingly-not-a-drag wife but, for […]
“How are you, my little angry difficult misunderstood friend?” I am Marc Maron. I don’t mean literally, but metaphorically. If you had told me five years ago that the person I would identify most with- whose personality and thought patterns come closest to my own- would be a 49-year-old, twice divorced, recovering addict, bitter, angry, […]