Here’s Stephen Colbert’s latest riff on Kellyanne Conway’s recent claim that the government can eavesdrop on you through your microwave oven. Turns out that the little kitchen helpers also make great Late Show studio TV cameras, and have one other amazing capability...

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Mar

CANINE CONFESSIONS By Eric Gould

Conservative observation has it that liberals usually assume everyone’s a critic of the President. See what happens in this SNL sketch when three scientists (including Scarlett Johansson) debut their new invention, a machine that translates for pets...

2017

Mar

A BRAND ILLUSION By Eric Gould

Just in case you don’t think advertising pays, here’s an example of E*TRADE’s latest commercial, an ambitious-looking 30-second spot starting out with a flat panel display on a desktop, but as the dolly shot reveals, the setting turns out to be quite something else...

2017

Mar

ACTING UP ON PORPOISE By Eric Gould

We’ve been fans of Nature’s recent miniseries Spy in the Wild... This clip from episode 4, “Bad Behavior” follows a gang of teenaged male dolphins. Seems the lads are like most youths, unruly and too rambunctious for orderly family life. So what do they do? Surf and hang out in gangs, of course – and spend some time playing ping pong with a puffer fish. But it also turns out they might be getting a bit of a gas, too..

2017

Feb

FX'S 'TABOO' HAS BEEN A DARK BUT WORTHWHILE DIVE By Eric Gould

Taboo’s tales of old empire corruption, oppressed underclass, occult tourism and last week’s immersion into torture porn hasn’t been family fare, to put it mildly... And yet, the series has continued to fascinate with its dark beauty...

2017

Feb

NOBODY DOES IT BETTER By Eric Gould

Vice News has a new video out documenting the case that nobody draws bigger crowds, builds walls, understands debt, and 21 other things better than the President. And there is no clip stringing together all the claims better than this...

2017

Feb

THINGS WENT SIDEWAYS AND THEN UP, AGAIN, FOR ‘GIRLS’ FANS By Eric Gould

Lena Dunham made news again this week and it wasn’t due to her frequent position as whipping post for the now-sacked Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos... Last Sunday’s episode of Dunham’s Girls gave fans a surprise knuckleball...

2017

Feb

INSIDE STEPHEN COLBERT By Eric Gould

Bob Odenkirk visited The Late Show with Stephen Colbert recently to discuss rough clips for a movie idea, Late Show: The Movie in which he stars as Stephen Colbert. Turns out, Colbert also appears in it — in the role of Bob Odenkirk. But the Inception-like reversals don’t stop there...

2017

Feb

“OUR SHOW WAS MUCH TOO HIP, SO WE GOT CEN-SOR-SHIP…” By Eric Gould

David has recapped The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour 50th anniversary for the New York Times this week, and in his TVWW blog. Looking back, it’s no surprise the young brothers got their own show on CBS in 1967. Their timing, charm and wit were quite something... The brothers returned to CBS in 1988 for a memorable reunion special...

2017

Feb

ALTERNATIVE ACTS By Eric Gould

Granted, this may not be for all TVWW readers, but greetings from Boston, home of one of your TVWW editors and a million or so bleary-eyed survivors of last night’s historic Super Bowl LI overtime finish...

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Eric Gould is a writer in Boston and Associate Editor for tvworthwatching.com. With prior stints in art, music, photography and design, he casts a wide net across the media pool fishing for the smart, the surprising and the oddly compelling. He will have essays on Rectify, Six Feet Under and Girls in the upcoming “Finale: Considering the Ends of Television Series” from Syracuse University Press. Email him at gould@tvworthwatching.com

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