Whitney Friedlander is an entertainment journalist with, what some may argue, an unhealthy love affair with her TV. A former staff writer at both the LA Times and Variety, she's also written for Cosmopolitan, Vulture, The Washington Post, and others.
Books
So much of the most well-known adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice work because of the visuals: the hand flex, the wet white shirt, the general brooding. But Audible’s recently released audio-only adaptation exhilarates the sounds; a Dove chocolate bar commercial of stillness and escapism crammed into
Netflix
With its heroine’s infamous proclamation that she might be the “voice of my generation line … or at least a voice of a generation” to the way it almost completely ignored topics like gentrification and student loans, Lena Dunham’s HBO comedy Girls premiered in 2012 as a send-up of
Netflix
Something that is always a dead giveaway that a studio or streamer has no faith in a film is when it’s released in one season while so clearly being set in another. Havoc, the Netflix action movie starring Tom Hardy as an anti-hero cop with a perplexing “working-class New
Netflix
Black Mirror’s whole shtick has always been that it could be true. With episodes set a few years away from, or even with just a few alterations to our current way of life, creator Charlie Brooker’s anthology show has usually served as a cautionary tale about society’s
Netflix
It’s easy to praise Netflix’s new drama series Adolescence. Creators Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham have a skill not just for seeing a criminal drama through the “law” stage of booking and processing, but also for stewing in the stressful purgatory before the trial and “order” to explain