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Chris Revelle, Television Critic: Chris is a freelance writer and critic based in Boston, Massachusetts where he works as an educator and avoids gangs of wild turkeys. When he isn't writing about TV, celebrities, and the internet, Chris is usually playing video games, playing Dungeons and Dragons, or idly fantasizing about a multi-volume dissertation on Showgirls. |
- 'Industry' Season 3 Finale Explained
- Is 'Agatha All Along' the Gayest Thing Disney Has Ever Made?
- Where Does TV Go From This Genre Discourse?
- Spoilers: How Does 'Emily in Paris' Season 4 End And Will There Be a Season 5?
- Is 'Industry' Adding Murder to its Rap Sheet?
- 'Industry' Finds Substance in the Spiral of 'White Mischief'
- 'Only Murders in the Building' Season 4 Performs Sitcom Alchemy
- Will There Be a 'Serpent Queen' Season 3?
- 'Unstable' Is Very Close To Being Good In Season 2
- Terminally Online Weirdo JK Rowling Might Actually Log Off
- 'Emily in Paris' Season 4: Emily Is the Definitive Mary-Sue
- 'Industry' Is Not 'Succession,' and It Should Have To Be
- 'The Decameron' Is the Sum of Strange Choices
- 'The Serpent Queen' Is Back and She Brought Minnie Driver
- 'Presumed Innocent's Biggest Mystery Was its Victim
- Ben Shapiro, DailyWire+, and the Face-Eating Leopards
- The Blessedly Bonkers 'My Lady Jane' May Be the Sleeper Hit of the Summer
- 'The Bear' Season 3 Gave Us A Great Donna and Too Much Fak
- What's Your Favorite Anti-Iconic Series?
- 'Presumed Innocent' Makes Jake Gyllenhaal Lie In the Bed He Made
- Do We Have Reenactment Fever?
- Are We In the Era of Peak Limited?
- Are We Dumb Or Is the Internet Dead?
- 'Fantasmas' Dreams In Sketch Comedy
- Forget Skywalker: 'The Acolyte' Proves Star Wars' Future Is in its Forgotten Past
- My Afternoon In Scientology
- 'Under the Bridge' Did Something Radical
- RDJ Really Hammed it Up On 'The Sympathizer'
- 'We're Here' Needs To Be Here More Than Ever
- Eurovision 2024: Queasy Frivolity During Wartime
- What Is the Twist in Apple TV+'s 'Sugar,' And Does It Work? [Spoilers]
- 'Sugar' Is a Stylish, But What Is This Story Even About?
- 'Dead Boy Detectives' Is a Surreal, If Overstuffed, Supernatural Procedural in the 'Sandman' Universe
- Give 'Shogun's Anna Sawai All the Emmys
- RFK Jr and Aaron Rodgers Should Shut Up About AIDS
- 'Ripley' Is What 'Saltburn' Wished To Be
- Julianne Moore Is a Cunning, Queer-Affirming Momager in Starz's Sacrilegious 'Mary & George'
- What Are Your Favorite Trans Media?
- How 'The Regime' and 'Palm Royale' Complicate Their Genres
- Hollywood Ostracism 2024: Cast Your Vote Now!
- How 'Dune 2' and 'Shōgun' Handle the White Savior
- 'Girls5Eva' Season 3 Is a Straight Shot of Pure Joy
- The 'Feud: Capote vs the Swans' Finale Is All Vibes, No Substance
- 'The Regime' and the Aesthetics of Power in Decline
- Cast Griffin Newman in 'the Fantastic Four,' You Cowards!
- 'Avatar: the Last Airbender' Is Not Active Torture
- 'The New Look' Threads a Villainous Needle with Coco Chanel
- 'Vanderpump Rules' Tom Sandoval Equates Himself With O.J. Simpson and George Floyd
- 'Ghosts' Doesn't Shy Away from Its Broad Comedy or Its Big Warm Heart
- Marvel Announces New 'Fantastic Four'
- Breaking Up Is Hard to Do on 'Vanderpump Rules'
- Alanna Ubach Is Absolutely Everything on 'Ted'
- What Haunts the Detectives of 'Night Country'?
- The Real Life Horrors of 'The Woman in the Wall'
- Is Bradley Cooper the Caroline Calloway of the A-List?
- An Ode to Ole Munch, Sin-Eater of 'Fargo'
- Meta Would Like to Copy Your Work, Not Pay You
- The Tigers of 'Fargo'
- The Worst People You Know Will Be Streaming On X
- Five Cozy Mystery Series to Binge in January
- Taylor Lorenz and the Recap Industrial Complex
- Is Nate Silver OK?
- Why Is Amazon Posting About Jizz?
- Will There Be a Third Season of 'The Gilded Age'?
- 'The Curse' is the Funniest Show You Won't Laugh At
- Pajiba 10 FYC: The Ascension of Charles Melton
- What is Dougie's Deal on 'The Curse'?
- Emma Corrin Is Enby Gamine Goals
- 'The Gilded Age' Tries To Use Its Powers For Good
- Morgan Spector of 'The Gilded Age' Can Bust My Union
- Julianna Margulies Goes on an Unhinged Islamophobic Rant
- Five Wild Theories About Who Killed Bill in 'A Murder at the End of the World'
- 'The Dads' Is a Heartwarming Bittersweet Slice of Life
- 'The Buccaneers' Is a Fabulously Frothy CW-Style Soap
- What History Might Predict for 'The Gilded Age'
- Emily Hampshire's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Costume
- 'Gilded Age' Is Gloriously Bad
- Break Up With Justin Timberlake
- Let's Speculate Wildly About 'Shining Vale'
- Mary McDonnell Is an Outstanding RWRD In 'The Fall of the House of Usher'
- Who Had It Coming the Most on 'The Fall of the House of Usher'
- Julia Fox's 'Down the Drain' Seems to Tell a Familiar Kanye Story
- What's Behind the Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce Conspiracy Theories?
- Emergency Broadcast System Had Everything: 5G, Nukes, and Zombies
- Don't Tell 'People' Magazine About Your 'Gender Disappointment'
- Is This the Party Republicans Want?
- What Cheryl Hines and Kristen Bell Unfortunately Have In Common
- A List of Headlines We Considered For Chris Pratt's Water Lie
- Let's Speculate Wildly About 'Only Murders in the Building'
- TERFs Are Just FARTs
- Republicans Clutch Pearls, Lose Monocles Over 'Confirmed Bachelor' Tim Scott
- What Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, and Iggy Azalea Have in Common
- 'Minx' Wants You to Be Gay, Do Crime
- Joe Jonas and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad PR
- Unpacking 'Killing It' Season 2's Brutal Ending
- Reviewing Caroline Calloway's Instagram Trilogy*
- The Left Does Not Need Its Own Elon Musk
- She Was Killed Over a Pride Flag
- Lennon Parham Is Doing Excellent Work on Starz' 'Minx'
- Video Games Are Art and That's Okay
- 'Minx' and 'The Afterparty's' Elizabeth Perkins Is the Best R.W.R.D. on TV
- Will There Be Another Season of 'The Righteous Gemstones'?
- Caroline Calloway Told On Herself
- 'Twisted Metal' Is a Raucous Fracas of Cars and Chaos
- Are These Two Shows in a Queer Coupling Race?!
- AI Reminds Us Quality Was Never the Goal
- Nandor & Gizmo 5ever: A Plea for 'What We Do in the Shadows'
- Caroline Calloway Is Entirely Cancelable
- Suckers' Game: Celebrities Are Plentiful and of Low Value
- Guy Fieri and Jonah Hill's Magical Parasocial Safety Net
- Aimee-Leigh Is Misbehavin' on 'The Righteous Gemstones'
- The Dizzy, Fizzy, Sparkly 'Glamorous' Shimmers With Queer Joy
- 'Black Mirror,' Netflix, and Corporate Self-Deprecation
- The Fathomless Mediocrity of Caroline Calloway
- Andrew Tate Has Been Indicted
- 'The Idol' Wishes It Was 'Showgirls'
- Queerness Is a Gift
- The Funniest Fever Dream of 'I Think You Should Leave' Season 3
- All the Red Flags in the 'Vanderpump Rules' Reunion Finale
- The 'Other Two' Explores Brooke and Cary's Dark Sides
- The Great Rainbow-Washing Round-Up
- Spoiler: The Season 3 Ending (and that Death) of 'The Great' Explained
- An Ally's Guide to Attending Pride
- All the Red Flags of the 'Vanderpump Rules' Reunion, Part 2
- The 'Vanderpump Rules' Reunion (Part I) Generates Prime Soap Opera Drama
- All the Red Flags in 'Vanderpump Rules': 'Scandoval' Is Here
- How 'Fatal Attraction' the Series Differs from 'Fatal Attraction' the Movie
- Who Won the 2023 Eurovision Grand Final?
- All the Red Flags In This Week's 'Vanderpump Rules,' 'There's Something About Her'
- All the Red Flags in This Week's 'Vanderpump Rules,' 'Lady and the Glamp'
- The Wonderfully Gay 'The Other Two' Is Queer Media for Queer People
- All the Red Flags in this Week's 'Vanderpump Rules,' 'Beach Don't Kill My Vibe'
- The Broadway Musical Influences on 'Schmigadoon!' Season 2 'Schmicago'
- All the Red Flags in this Week's 'Vanderpump Rules,' 'Mistress in Distress'
- These 11 States Want to Make Children the New Underclass
- All the Red Flags In This Week's 'Vanderpump Rules,' 'It's All Happening ... Again'
- Why JK Rowling Doesn't Deserve Your Money
- Why Mary Cosby Shouldn't Return to 'RHOSLC'
- Tomageddon: A Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss FAQ for the Bravo-Ignorant
- The Real Gay Panic of 'The Real Housewives'
- Bravo's Appalling 'Southern Charm,' or 'The Real Housewives of Dixie'
- Dorit Kemsley Is the Hilaria Baldwin of 'Real Housewives'
- Three 'Real Housewives' and Their Trips on the MAGA-Bravo Pipeline
- 'Real Housewives' Is Art and That's OK