Courtney Smith, Author at The Playlist

‘Girls5Eva’ Season 2 Review: Confident Comedy, Uncertain Satire

May 22, 2022 1:28 pm

At this point, you know what you're getting when you dive into a comedy produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock ("30 Rock," "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"): a spunky woman main character and an off-kilter gro...

‘Made For Love’ Season 2 Review: Cristin Milioti’s Dystopian Nightmare Continues

Courtney Smith

May 22, 2022 11:21 am

News, Reviews, Television

Given our current scorching discourse on physical female autonomy — or lack thereof — is there anything more bleakly dystopian than the idea of a chip implanted inside a woman’s head so a Silicon Valley douche...

‘Julia’ Review: Julia Child Burns Brightly, But HBO Max’s Series Never Quite Cooks With Enough Grease

Courtney Smith

March 23, 2022 11:05 am

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The phrase, “Well behaved women rarely make history,” attributed to Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Harvard professor Lauren Thatcher Ulrich, gets bandied about a lot these days in conversations about wom...

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