A few days before Christmas, HBO released the trailer for Season 4 of Industry , the kinetic, neon-lit series about troubled, young moneymakers in London that returns January 11. Set to a remix of New Order’s “True Faith, ” the video contained glimpses of... See more
Every so often, nestled in my inbox amid the endless messages from MyChart and TeamSnap and SignUpGenius and the school principal, I’ll see an email from a third-party vendor called Artsonia telling me that a new creative work from one or both of my kids ... See more
Stars, they’re just like us: transfixed by what’s on TV. Lucille Ball was a big fan of Perfect Strangers , for example. Larry David was so inspired by the 1950s program Sgt. Bilko that he worked the character into Curb Your Enthusiasm . Carol Burnett, hoo... See more
In the summer of 1995, a few days before his 25th birthday, the filmmaker Kevin Smith attended his first San Diego Comic-Con. “It was like a circus,” he wrote years later, “wrapped up in a treasury edition-sized comic book, stuffed inside a month of Satur... See more
