Totally Generic High School Musical and the Gaslighting of America’s Youth By Natasha Ochshorn • October 10th, 2025 What makes streaming different than past revised mediums is that when changes are made, there may be no older physical model to compare it to.
Totally Generic I’m So Bored, I Could Die By Natasha Ochshorn • September 16th, 2025 And Just Like That… is a show that often feels in my brain the same way scrolling on the internet does.
Totally Generic The Listeners Draws a Line at Naziism By Natasha Ochshorn • August 13th, 2025 You cannot accommodate Nazis without tainting any good you try to accomplish.
Totally Generic Mountainhead By Natasha Ochshorn • July 8th, 2025 The bros up at Mountainhead are going to leave their bodies behind.
Totally Generic What Are We Talking About When We’re Talking About Star Wars? By Natasha Ochshorn • June 10th, 2025 The depiction of fascism in Andor, – its annihilating possibilities, its pervasiveness, its seductions towards complicity – feel extrapolated from the present moment, terrifyingly. Its rebellion feels hopefully so.
Totally Generic Programming Romance By Natasha Ochshorn • May 8th, 2025 AI will get to know you, or at least predict your shopping habits, but you cannot get to know it back.
Totally Generic No One Has Actually Read Lord of the Rings By Natasha Ochshorn • April 16th, 2025 It is really easy to lie about having read a book that many people are familiar with but many fewer accurately remember.
Totally Generic Buffy Reboot By Natasha Ochshorn • March 12th, 2025 Stage and film actors have been “remaking” Shakespeare for over 400 years and no one has a problem with it if the production is good. I’m kidding, people have a problem with everything.
Totally Generic Nightbitch By Natasha Ochshorn • February 12th, 2025 The whole fantasy element could be excised neatly from the film without it feeling much different, which is a worrisomely blasé way to come out of a film where someone turns into a dog at night.
Totally Generic Watching The Good Wife on the Eve of a new Trump Presidency By Natasha Ochshorn • January 17th, 2025 The Good Wife is not a Trump era show, but it works as well to understand the Biden era as it did to reflect the Obama years – with added hindsight.
