Mark Blankenship
Mark Blankenship has been writing about arts and culture for twenty years, with bylines in The New York Times, Variety, Vulture, Fortune, and many others. You can hear him on the pop music podcast Mark and Sarah Talk About Songs. Chances are good he's thinking about the Billboard charts right now.
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POSTED May 25, 2023
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s FUBAR Has Great Action And Wonky Ideals
The Netflix show isn’t nearly as progressive as it seems.
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POSTED May 24, 2023
Barbecue Showdown Serves Up Cooking Competition Staples in Its Second Season
But the predictable format can’t dampen this Netflix show’s charming spirit.
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POSTED May 22, 2023
Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen Thrive in Platonic's Friend Zone
The Neighbors stars trade big-screen antics for the lived-in banter of lifelong companionship.
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POSTED May 21, 2023
How Much of Barry Is a Hallucination?
The show’s penultimate episode is filled with trippy dream logic.
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POSTED May 18, 2023
The Secrets of Hillsong Makes a Damning Case Against a Megachurch
FX’s docuseries gets intensely personal with the megachurch’s leaders and survivors
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POSTED May 16, 2023
Blood and Laughs Dominate Sarah Goldberg's Bewitching Barry Follow-Up Sisters
The twisted family comedy references everyone from Sharon Horgan to Sarah Kane.
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POSTED May 15, 2023
Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller Have Made Their Meanest Comedy Ever
Apple TV+'s High Desert has plenty of bad behavior and very little heart.
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POSTED May 14, 2023
The Men on Barry Keep Confusing Redemption With Revenge
Spiritually, Fuches, Gene, and Barry are flopping hard.
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POSTED May 11, 2023
Someone's Leaving Ghosts, and It's Probably 1 of These 5 Characters
Let's place our bets on the result of that Season 2 cliffhanger.
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POSTED May 9, 2023
Hannah Gadsby Returns to Netflix With a Burst of Joyous Comedy
With Something Special, they turn happiness into a political act.
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POSTED May 8, 2023
Can We Forgive Pete Davidson For What Bupkis Does to Edie Falco?
His gross-out comedy wants us to sympathize with the wrong person.
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POSTED May 7, 2023
Barry's Time Jump Gives Sally a Dangerous New Identity
Barry might be happy in their new fake life, but he’s the only one.
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POSTED May 5, 2023
There Are Limits to the "Jesse Plemons Thing"
In HBO's Love & Death, he's on the verge of minimalist shtick.
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POSTED May 4, 2023
Finding Alberta's Killer Made Ghosts Star Danielle Pinnock "Go Deep"
The mystery unlocks something raw in her performance on the CBS sitcom
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POSTED May 1, 2023
HBO’s White House Plumbers Tells the Same Good Joke For 5 Hours
The Veep team gets angry about Watergate, but not much else.