Top Ten Movies of 2018 1. Roma 2. First Reformed 3. Suspiria 4. Eighth Grade 5. You Were Never Really Here 6. A Star is Born 7. First Man 8. Hereditary 9. Isle of Dogs […]
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BPOFD PODCAST EPISODE #23: GTFO GIRLS with Darri Farr
In Episode #23 of the BPoFD podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with Darri Farr, author of “Lena Dunham & the Magical Abortion,” to discuss the legacy of HBO’s GIRLS. Highlights include a deconstruction of GIRLS‘s faux-feminism, hypothetical musings about […]
What’s Worse Than GIRLS?
by David Salinas Full disclosure: I haven’t watched GIRLS since the third season. I think. And I’m not sure it matters. The plot is so insignificant—characters shuffling between love, languor, and leases—that whole seasons meld into […]
Lena Dunham & the Magical Abortion
By Darri Farr From the very first episode, GIRLS promised us an abortion. An early evasion of the topic takes place in “Vagina Panic,” when Jessa skips her own abortion to hook up with a stranger […]
Lena Dunham’s Gentrification of the Mind
If gentrification is nothing more than white supremacy for liberals, then Lena Dunham’s HBO series, GIRLS, may be the phenomenon’s urtext. Set primarily in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the show follows four twenty-something female protagonists–Hannah, Jessa, Marnie, and Shoshanna–as they […]
2015 Top Ten Lists with Zero Explanations
Top Ten Movies of 2015 1. Creed 2. Brooklyn 3. Mad Max: Fury Road 4. Sicario 5. Room 6. Wild Tales 7. The Gift 8. Inside Out 9. It Follows 10. Ex Machina x Top Ten TV […]
The BPoFD 15
These are the fifteen best movies, albums, television shows and books of the century so far, according to the Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators Editorial Board. They are presented below without comment to acknowledge the utter inanity […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Master of None
In “Plan B,” the pilot episode of Master of None, Aziz Ansari’s new, execrable half-hour comedy series, from Netflix, two quirky New York singles make a trip to the corner drugstore, to buy the eponymous pill. Both […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Last Man on Earth
The Last Man on Earth, whose first season finale aired two Sundays previous, on FOX, theoretically could be–and arguably should be–sued for false advertising, for the high concept bait-and-switch it perpetrates at its own expense. […]
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