Lords of the Playground Launches Their Comedic Shorts
Comedic duo Jason Kravits and Matt Servitto launch web comedy shorts Lords of the PlaygroundThey’ve played unloved district attorneys, Soprano-hounding FBI Agents, outcasts, oddballs, and now they are...
View ArticleA Brief Interview with Hilarious Men
Matt Servitto and Jason Kravits on the intersection of work, fatherhood, and Lords of the PlaygroundAnything goes on the playground: one dad scores the digits for a new babysitter; the other dad pimps...
View ArticleMrs. Antihero
We love to watch bad guys on TV. Why do we love to hate their wives almost as much?“I guess that’s why gangsters have molls.” That’s what scumbag attorney Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) said to his...
View ArticleRemembering James Gandolfini (1961-2013)
The 51-year-old actor, most famous for his role on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” died Wednesday while vacationing in Italy. James Gandolfini, who was best known for his Emmy award winning role as Tony Soprano...
View ArticleWhat Happened To The Good Guys?
Why the new “American hero” is anything but.—It hit me Sunday night.I was watching the pilot for Ray Donovan, Showtime’s new pseudo-gangster drama (no, he’s not a capo, he’s a Hollywood “fixer,”...
View ArticleBreaking Bad is All About Family
What does a man do, Walter? A man provides for his family.When fastidious meth manufacturer and Los Pollos Hermanos chicken chain owner Gustavo Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) recruits Walter White (Bryan...
View ArticleI Only Watch Sports on TV
Andrew Smiler doesn’t watch weekly series because he’s not willing to make an emotional commitment to a TV character.Confession time: I didn’t watch Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Seinfeld, or any other...
View ArticleThe Soprano’s Guide to Mental Health
What’s the point in talking when nobody is listening?—-Guys don’t like to talk about it. We’d rather suffer in silence until it’s unbearable. We just “man up” and get used to our misery. Like good men...
View ArticleYou Can’t Buy Manhood in a Bottle
Thomas Pluck looks at how the state of our liqueur advertising mirrors the state of our manhood.—-As much as I’ve enjoyed the show Mad Men, it has given us a spate of Madison Avenue campaigns that...
View ArticleLooking at Dead Babies
Has a steady diet of fictionalized pop media desensitized us to true images of trauma?—By Lauren Rosewarne, University of MelbourneIn Year 8 our history class watched a documentary about Cambodia’s...
View ArticleCheering on the Bully and the Killer: Is That Entertainment?
TV writer Steve Harper considers the morality of watching TV with dark themes.—After viewing the second season premiere of House of Cards, I chose to stop watching. Even though several of my friends...
View ArticleHow to Make a Critically Acclaimed TV Show About Masculinity
What does it mean to be a man? No one really knows, but it makes for some damn good television.In the first decade of the 21st century, a critical consensus formed that we’re currently living in the...
View ArticleOscars = Tuxedos
Jamie Reidy smacks down the Good Men Project founder’s argument that men should be allowed to wear dresses to the Academy Awards.My boss’s boss Tom Matlack has more fashion dollars than sense. (If...
View ArticleBreast Intentions: “Time” Cover Mom Ruins Son’s Life
Jamie Reidy criticizes Jamie Lynn Grumet, the mom on this week’s cover of Time with her 3-year old son’s mouth clamped on her nipple.(Note: there is no truth to the rumor that had it been Jamie Lynn...
View ArticleOpen Thread: What is the Most “Manly” TV Show
Open Discussion:What television shows in the last 50 years do you consider the most masculine?War shows like MASH or Hogan’s Heroes—Gangster shows like The Sopranos or Sons of Anarchy—father-centered...
View ArticleLords of the Playground Launches Their Comedic Shorts
Comedic duo Jason Kravits and Matt Servitto launch web comedy shorts Lords of the PlaygroundThey’ve played unloved district attorneys, Soprano-hounding FBI Agents, outcasts, oddballs, and now they are...
View ArticleA Brief Interview with Hilarious Men
Matt Servitto and Jason Kravits on the intersection of work, fatherhood, and Lords of the PlaygroundAnything goes on the playground: one dad scores the digits for a new babysitter; the other dad pimps...
View ArticleMrs. Antihero
We love to watch bad guys on TV. Why do we love to hate their wives almost as much?“I guess that’s why gangsters have molls.” That’s what scumbag attorney Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) said to his...
View ArticleRemembering James Gandolfini (1961-2013)
The 51-year-old actor, most famous for his role on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” died Wednesday while vacationing in Italy. James Gandolfini, who was best known for his Emmy award winning role as Tony Soprano...
View ArticleWhat Happened To The Good Guys?
Why the new “American hero” is anything but.—It hit me Sunday night.I was watching the pilot for Ray Donovan, Showtime’s new pseudo-gangster drama (no, he’s not a capo, he’s a Hollywood “fixer,”...
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