I hate biopics! I’d so much rather watch a biographical documentary than watch actors pretend to be real live people. Sure, you’ll probably get an Oscar for your portrayal (cf. Rami Malek), but I’m not entirely sure why, because acting in a biopic involves so much impersonation, which seems like a waste of time. Just…

Our long national nightmare is over, comrades. The second half of Season 5 of Arrested Development arrives on Friday. Look, I’m trying to polish a turd here. Arrested Development has not been good since its pre-Netflix days and we all know it, but there is nothing else to watch this week. Unless you love Terrace House…

Who ordered a heartwarming comedy series “from the mind of Ricky Gervais” about a man who uses his wife’s death as an excuse to treat everyone like crap? Netflix! What are you thinking? No one is interested in After Life (Friday), Gervais’ “dark comedy” (translation: Gervais’ wife calls him fat, Gervais calls a child…

Have you watched Jeopardy on Netflix? Jeopardy on Netflix is Jeopardy without commercials, which is a cool 20 minutes per episode of nerdy trivia that is just the sort of stress-free, self-congratulatory binge we could all use. Netflix’s second “collection” of Jeopardy episodes drops on Thursday, just in time for…

Ray Romano was not kidding when he titled his very recent standup special Right Here, Around the Corner. It gives me no joy to tell you that a mere two weeks after said special dropped (if anything that Ray Romano produces could be said to have “dropped”), Ray is has come back Around the Corner and he’s Right Here,…

Maybe your boss is a jerk. Maybe the team you manage has weird internal conflicts. Maybe you’re on the fence about your next career move. Maybe your cubicle neighbor is driving you bananas.

Look, I’m not making any promises about The Umbrella Academy, the latest comic book-to-Netflix Original series (Thursday). It could be terrible, but there’s something about the premise (estranged siblings with superpowers reunite after their father’s death) and the trailer, which has a sort of fairy-tale filter and…

Who among us is excited for the triumphant return to the stage of Ray Romano? Not me! But I’m assuming the same people who kept Everybody Loves Raymond on the air for 11 years have been anxiously anticipating Ray Romano: Right Here, Around the Corner, Romano’s first standup special in 23 years, which hits Netflix on…

The Edge of Seventeen is a solid, engaging, entertaining teen movie in the mold of John Hughes, and you should definitely watch it if you haven’t seen it (Friday). Hailee Steinfeld is an interesting actor! If you have a teenage kid, you could watch it with them and then have a productive conversation! Or, you could…

I’m excited about Black Earth Rising (Friday), a BBC drama about a survivor of the Rwandan genocide who becomes a human rights attorney and ends up working on a case involving an African militia leader. For whatever reason, John Goodman is in it, which is weird for a British show but I’m not complaining.

You’ve got your choice between two juicy scandals this week: Ryan Murphy’s limited series American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace (Thursday) and the documentary FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Friday) about the ill-fated “luxury music experience” that turned into a living nightmare. Or,…

Good thing you’re busy Kondo-ing your crap this week, because the best Netflix has to offer is Solo: A Star Wars Story (Wednesday), which I’d like to get excited about, but the sheer volume of “Star Wars stories” available to me on Netflix makes the arrival of yet another a nonevent. I will probably find my way to …

The end of year offerings from Netflix were grim, so it is with pleasure that I welcome the bumper crop of entertainment in this week’s harvest. We’ve got the full complement of Indiana Jones flicks arriving on Tuesday (I see we are now calling the first installment “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark,”…

You know that disgusting drawer full of random ketchup packets, receipts, rubber bands and other assorted crap dumped from your pockets or purse at the end of the day? Some people call it the Junk Drawer. Others call it the Everything Drawer, or the Odds and Ends Drawer or simply “That Drawer.” I call it the Drawer of…

Everyone wants to hijack your January. Most people want you to stop drinking for the month, on the premise you’ve been overdoing it over the holidays and need to dry out. Others think it’s time to go vegan. I’m sure someone you know is trying to convince you to go to hot yoga every day of January to sweat out “the…

There is only one thing to get excited about on Netflix this week and if it’s not your cup of tea, may I suggest Mrs. Maisel on Prime Video? Like the best Christmas present a streaming video service could ever give you, Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War arrives on December 25. It’s probable you’ve seen it, as it…

Call me basic but I am into an Ellen DeGeneres standup special, her first in 15 years (Tuesday). This profile of her in the New York Times makes it sound as if she’s taking the gloves off and getting real with us, America. Did you know she doesn’t like when strangers come up to her and try to make her dance with them? …

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Tonight is the company holiday party. Don’t fuck it up.

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