Jessica Pressler Archives - Old Ain't Dead

Hustlers, worth the wait, worth the watch

Hustlers has been on my ‘watchlist’ for a long time. I didn’t get to see it in a theater and it was never on a streamer that I subscribe to. But now it’s on Hulu, which means I finally got […]

Inventing Anna, or the American obsession with money and power

Leave a Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / February 14, 2022 / #eldersrock, Alexis Floyd, Anna Chlumsky, Anna Deavere Smith, Anthony Edwards, Arian Moayed, Inventing Anna, Jessica Pressler, Julia Garner, Kate Burton, Katie Lowes, Laverne Cox, Saamer Usmani, Shonda Rhimes, Women Directors

Inventing Anna, a Netflix mini-series about the rise and fall of a fake socialite from creator Shonda Rhimes, is fascinating and compelling television. I took it as a parable about the rot at the heart of the American psyche. It’s

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