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Armond White

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The Paper: Season 1 (2025) 85% EDIT “The Paper’s “wit” seems designed to satisfy “the educated class” that is flattered by the current media power structure.” – National Review Oct 12, 2025 Full Review Beyond the Gates: Season 1 (2026) 100% EDIT “The show goes beyond mere representation and “looks-like-me” tokenism. It allows us to observe the Duprees and their antagonists as people -- sometimes without obvious institutional endorsement and without pretense to high art. ” – National Review Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Great Performances: Season 52, Episode 14 (2025) EDIT “This auto-fiction pretends an ultra-progressive perspective, but Marcus is nothing more than an opportunistic MacGuffin.” – National Review May 22, 2025 Full Review The White Lotus: Season 3 (2025) 86% EDIT “Mike White slickly disintegrates American family and friend relations -- using flashy prurience but no analysis.” – National Review Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?: Season 1 (2024) 60% EDIT “Because so many celebrities presume to lecture us on behavior and politics, the game’s display of ignorance on both the professional and civilian side is stunning.” – National Review Oct 16, 2024 Full Review Star Wars: The Acolyte: Season 1 (2024) 79% EDIT “Show-runner Leslye Headland contrived The Acolyte using Star Wars ideas, figures, and lingo to replicate progressive pillars for environmental, social, and governance performance, the corporate bottom line said to prioritize “profit, people, planet.”” – National Review Jun 14, 2024 Full Review Succession: Season 4 (2023) 97% EDIT “The makers of Succession specialize in exactly the elitist disdain they pretend to satirize. The show’s premise actually celebrates the very nastiness that neoliberals claim to abhor.” – National Review Apr 5, 2023 Full Review The Last of Us: Season 1 (2023) 96% EDIT “It’s a lousy series because it depicts our distrust and division so matter-of-factly. Video-game make-believe becomes heinous when presented as realistic TV drama.” – National Review Mar 1, 2023 Full Review The White Lotus: Season 2 (2022) 94% EDIT “White’s ugly Americans are cable-TV clichés, as in the vaunted Sopranos, which taught viewers to love, but mostly hate, themselves. ” – National Review Feb 10, 2023 Full Review The 1619 Project: Season 1 (2023) 93% EDIT “Instead of an academic investigation, The 1619 Project uses PBS doc clichés to which academics are also susceptible.” – National Review Feb 4, 2023 Full Review Gutsy: Season 1 (2022) 67% EDIT “The show goes over a cliff as privileged Hillary and Chelsea indulge fatuous, sisterhood-theme episodes.” – National Review Sep 10, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 1 (2022) EDIT “Its exaggerated fantasy repeats today’s bureaucratic self-aggrandizement. If subservient viewers enjoy this egotistical rubbish, they ought to realize that it is rubbish.” – National Review Aug 26, 2022 Full Review Abbott Elementary: Season 1 (2021) 98% EDIT “Mockery is the show’s actual curriculum, full of sarcasm that deflects the reality we dread. ” – National Review Apr 16, 2022 Full Review One Perfect Shot: Season 1 (2022) 0% EDIT “What’s most exasperating about One Perfect Shot is the evident indifference to cinema aesthetics and the beauty of what images mean. DuVernay doesn’t help viewers learn to read cinema. The only way to do that is through examples of great filmmaking.” – National Review Mar 26, 2022 Full Review Loki: Season 1 (2021) 92% EDIT “The series achieves its ultimate manifestation as Saturday-afternoon animation. With Loki, Marvel, Disney, and their die-hard constituents have found ways to make the banal even more banal.” – National Review Jun 9, 2021 Full Review The Underground Railroad: Season 1 (2021) 95% EDIT “It seems conjured out of the indulgence of a privileged generation that has to imagine suffering -- a flippant take on Nina Simone's "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free."” – National Review May 12, 2021 Full Review Them: Season 1 (2021) 58% EDIT “None of the Emorys' terror is cathartic. Them suggests a monster movie without humor or a sense of victory.” – National Review Apr 30, 2021 Full Review The Simpsons: Season 32 (2020) EDIT “The Simpsons continues its practice of PC superiority... How wrong can a once-great show be?” – National Review Apr 23, 2021 Full Review American Masters: Season 33 (2019) 89% EDIT “Dirty Blonde also exemplifies this bizarre moment in cultural revisionism by positioning West's accomplishments as proto-feminist.” – National Review Dec 8, 2020 Full Review Small Axe: Season 2 (2020) 98% EDIT “The exoticism satisfies those self-aggrandizing political poseurs who pretend identification with black culture but have hijacked and perverted it in the political world.” – National Review Sep 18, 2020 Full Review Lovecraft Country: Season 1 (2020) 88% EDIT “Lovecraft Country links to literary racism simply for fake topicality. Anti-American nihilism and hopeless racial cynicism give the show its gotcha.” – National Review Aug 27, 2020 Full Review The Great American Read: Season 1 (2018) EDIT “This is not literary, it's Disneyana that entirely misses the point of art -- of reading -- as a daunting, intellectually challenging adventure.” – National Review Apr 3, 2020 Full Review The GRAMMYs: Season 62 (2020) EDIT “It comes down to bad manners, and we suffer through this loutishness almost every week during awards season. The Grammys were just the latest example of show hosts and performers who exhibit an inappropriate sense of occasion.” – National Review Jan 28, 2020 Full Review The Academy Awards: Season 89 (2017) 67% EDIT “The most politicized -- and most nauseating -- Oscar program in history.” – National Review Oct 29, 2019 Full Review The Movies: Season 1 (2019) 71% EDIT “Even if your personal favorites are among them, it is a moronic fanboy's view of movie history.” – National Review Jul 6, 2019 Full Review
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