Tag: Michelle Buteau
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Survival of the Thickest, season 2, good jokes with sharp points
Survival of the Thickest, season 2, brings another 8 episodes celebrating plus sized beauty and sexiness, queer beauty and sexiness, the beauty of friendship, and the beauty of creativity. It does it all with pointed one-liners, clever barbs and infectious joy.
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Babes review: friendship and motherhood in a comedy
Babes is laugh-out-loud funny. It’s a story about two lifelong friends as they attempt to settle into adulthood, parenting, and each other’s quirks.
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Work It review, wanna dance?
In Work It, Quinn (Sabrina Carpenter) has spent her entire school career making her credentials look good enough to be admitted to Duke University. She’s got a 4.0, does volunteer work, plays cello, belongs to some extracurricular groups. She should be a shoo-in, right?
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Crush review, a sweet and queer coming of age story
The words sex positive are used a lot in Crush, and it’s a fitting description of the entire film. The sex is at a minimum, but the acceptance is maximum. This is a happy and very queer coming of age film.
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Survival of the Thickest, Michelle Buteau goes for it all
Survival of the Thickest (a terrible title, by the way) takes on several themes and story arcs. To get through them all in 8 half hour episodes is quite the feat from Michelle Buteau, who wrote the series based on her own book of essays. There are minor spoilers ahead.
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Marry Me, let’s just admit Jennifer Lopez is queen of the romcom
Marry Me, the latest romcom starring Jennifer Lopez, makes fun of celebrity culture, makes math teachers look good, and includes some impressive singing and dancing. For a genre movie, it swings for the fences and does a good job of reaching them.
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Review: Moonshot, even on Mars a romcom is still a romcom
Moonshot is a sci-fi romcom. It aims, not for the moon, but for Mars. I watch a lot of romcoms and the genre usually works for me, but this one came up short in several ways.
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Review: The Principles of Pleasure
The Principles of Pleasure is a three episode docu-series about women’s sexual health and pleasure. It features scientists, educators, therapists, and many interviews with ordinary women. This isn’t schoolyard gossip or the mythology of the patriarchy – this is the real info.
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Awkwafina is Nora from Queens grows on you
Awkwafina is Nora from Queens is a comedy series about Awkwafina’s own life from the time before she became well-known. It’s available on its home channel of Comedy Central and also on HBO Max, which is where I binge watched all 14 episodes of season 1.
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Tales of the City, 2019 style
Tales of the City was revived in 2019 from the stories by Armistead Maupin. Lauren Morelli is the creator behind the new series, which I found to be very much a series of right now. Contemporary.