Three local boundary-breaking productions destined for bigger screens
Category: Small Screen
Get ready to hate-watch another season of Easy
The second season of Joe Swanberg’s Netflix series looks like Chicago but doesn’t feel like the city at all.
Do millennials get Seinfeld?
A Chicago high school history teacher’s “club about nothing” aims to pass down an appreciation of the 90s TV phenomenon to the next generation.
How Chicago comedy prepared Jordan Klepper for Comedy Central
The former Chicago improviser and Daily Show correspondent adds “yes, and” to “no, but” for his new show The Opposition With Jordan Klepper.
Twin Peaks: The Return is a bizarre and brilliant retrospective
It’s not so much a TV show as an oblique survey of Mark Frost and David Lynch’s careers.
CBS’s Superior Donuts serves up nothing but holes
The TV series based on Tracy Letts’s Steppenwolf stage comedy is a corn-syrup north-side minstrel show.
Lena Waithe brings a different world to the screen
Lena Waithe brings the world of her south side childhood to the TV screen.
Aymar Jean Christian gives underrepresented artists a voice with Open TV
Aymar Jean Christian’s online television platform, Open TV, creates series by queer people, people of color, and women.
There’s no place like (stinky, claustrophobic, repellent) home
The personalities on Small Town Security are huge. And kind of stinky.
Marc Maron laughs to keep from crying
Marc Maron stars as himself in Maron, the new IFC sitcom about his less-than-sunny outlook on life.
HBO unleashes its Vice squad
Vice on HBO is news for a generation with a steel belly and a short attention span.
Children for fun and profit on ABC’s new Bet on Your Baby
Children for fun and profit on ABC’s new Bet on Your Baby