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Phillip Maciak

Phillip Maciak

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TV’s Year of Big Disappointments

It’s the end of the year, and disappointment is in the air. It has been for a while now. Given the current state of liberal politics in the...

26.12.2024 4

New Republic

Phillip Maciak

Taika Waititi’s Open-Hearted Television Empire

One of the most common comedic arcs in twenty-first-century TV is the journey from cynicism to hope. Mockumentaries like  The Office, Parks and...

16.12.2024 7

New Republic

Phillip Maciak

Dune: Prophecy and the Decline of the Spin-Off

Dune: Prophecy , the new HBO prequel series to the blockbuster film franchise, begins with one of the most hilariously hasty exposition dump...

26.11.2024 3

New Republic

Phillip Maciak

Say Nothing’s Ambitious Drama About an IRA Kidnapping Ends Too Soon

What does ambition look like on TV today? Is it big, expensive, epic fantasies like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power or House of the...

13.11.2024 1

New Republic

Phillip Maciak

The Glorious Swan Song of Somebody Somewhere

I’m a sucker for a singer. On TV, there’s nothing I love more than when a character bursts into song. I don’t necessarily want a big, produced...

29.10.2024 3

New Republic

Phillip Maciak

Industry’s Special Circle of Hell

25.09.2024 3

New Republic

Phillip Maciak

English Teacher Gets Gen Z

“Woke mind virus” is a pretty funny phrase. It wasn’t meant as a joke when Elon Musk first started using it in 2021. If anything, the utterly...

19.09.2024 2

New Republic

Phillip Maciak

The Promise of the Political Dad

On the third night of the DNC, in his speech accepting the nomination for vice-president, Tim Walz was Mr. Walz, the teacher who’d paid for a...

28.08.2024 3

Daily Intelligencer

Phillip Maciak

The Promise of the Political Dad

On the third night of the DNC, in his speech accepting the nomination for vice-president, Tim Walz was Mr. Walz, the teacher who’d paid for a...

27.08.2024 8

Daily Intelligencer

Phillip Maciak

The Genius of Evil

There was a giant, man-size crucifix outside of my first-grade classroom. This object—bloody and graphic—stood probably eight feet tall and was...

31.07.2024 6

New Republic

Phillip Maciak