TV Trans-Missions : “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and Jane Schoenbrun- “I Saw the TV Glow”

There was once a cultural attitude that looked down on the new medium of television. Imagine!  Grown men and women sinking on a couch for hours at a time to see badly hued, often staticky idiocy at scheduled times. TV was a distorted half-medium, incapable of providing the grandeur of cinema or the immediacy of …

Fair Enough Play: Yessica Yu – “Quiz Lady”

We all know someone who would be great at one of those money-winning shows- but never gets the gumption to go and win the actual money. Yessica Yu’s “Quiz Lady” is about someone just like that, Anne Yum (played by Awkwafina). Anne grew up watching a “Jeopardy”-like show called “Can’t Stop the Quiz,” which offered …