Posts by Tess Lynch
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Survivor: One World, Episode 8 – When the Going Gets Tough, ‘Just Annihilate Them’
Twenty-one days in and it’s time for an episode about strategy and breast implants. The women, once begging for fire and looking all sad, now have a numbers advantage over the men, and Jay is spooked. He should have been spooked before he sent fun-loving Jonas home, but such is the nature of this game. […]
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One Angry Mann: Prospective Gigs for a Post-Current Keith Olbermann
On one of his final Current TV broadcasts, Keith Olbermann wore a sweatshirt in support of Trayvon Martin. It was not the noble gesture that contributed to his firing — it was the reported missed work days, irascibility, and whatever cocktail of ego and ability to make people cry that probably did the trick everywhere […]
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Survivor: One World, Episode 7 – Soiled Pants and ‘The Beauty in a Merge’
Now that Colton — with holes where his heart and appendix used to hang out — has been shuttled off of Survivor: One World, I had some concerns about things getting dull around camp. I shouldn’t have, because look at Tarzan: rusty-mustached, inappropriately tearful, and … what’s that? Pause it there. Is that dirt on […]
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The Bully Rating Controversy and the Effect of the F-Word on Teenage Eardrums
The Weinstein Company’s announcement that Bully would be released without a rating left the controversial documentary’s future in limbo. The controversy surrounding the film, which profiled bullied kids and the families of children who have committed suicide, has nothing to do with its merit: Most agree that the documentary explores a worthy topic. But Bully […]
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Bill Maher, Fred Armisen, and the Menace of the One-Man Show
For reasons that are beyond my control, I sometimes end up in a room where someone is watching Real Time with Bill Maher, and I can’t get out because (a) the room is in my house, and (b) it’s the room with food in it. This happened on Friday, with a panel that included Fred […]
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Survivor: One World, Episode 6 – ‘Thanks for the Souvenir’ and the Burst Appendix
Distinguishing between schadenfreude and a loose-n-casual definition of karma can be difficult. You can’t be an active participant in willing misfortunes on people, even those who deserve them, and you certainly can’t experience any joy at what befalls them beyond the most molten level of your consciousness, in the dark cellar of your soul where […]
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Jason Russell, Kony 2012, and the Viral Boomerang
The “Kony 2012” video and its responses hit the Internet like asteroid 2011 AG5. Even if you didn’t watch it, there was no way to passively avoid absorbing its super-heavy gist, which was exactly the intention: to make Joseph Kony so famous that his crimes against humanity became embedded in the parts of our consciousness […]
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Survivor: One World, Episode 5 — Competing With ‘A Bunch of Idiots’
After the sensory treat that was last week’s Survivor: One World, it was no surprise that last night’s episode was sort of a letdown, more like one of those parties where the beer never gets quite cold enough in the fridge for the mountains to turn blue than an all-night extravaganza at Mick Jagger’s mansion. […]
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Apes, Nut-Shots and J-Pop: Jonah Hill Survives SNL
I happen to really like Jonah Hill. Of course, there are people who don’t, and one of those people contacted an evil voodoo queen named Pontchartrain de Glapion and paid 60 dollars to stick Jonah Hill with an SNL sketch about raping a primate — which wouldn’t have even necessarily been so eerie and disturbing […]
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Survivor: One World, Episode 4 – ‘Bum Puzzled’ and Mind-Blown
At around 5:15 p.m. yesterday, I retreated from Twitter because I didn’t want to see any of the Survivor spoilers that had started to spring up, but before I disappeared to get a burger I saw one from Emilee Fitzpatrick, of The Real World Cancun, that read “is survivor real right now lmfao.” From someone […]