Inkoo Kang

San Francisco

Television critic @newyorker. Pronounced in-goo. Find me at the other place and/or get updates from me: https://t.co/PWBRWywr9v

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Articles

“Your Friends and Neighbors” and the Perils of the Rich-People-Suck Genre

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Inkoo Kang

The first episode of the new Apple TV+ drama “Your Friends and Neighbors” takes pains to explain how one can rake in master-of-the-universe money yet never feel financially secure. Jon Hamm stars as Andrew Cooper, known as Coop, a hedge-fund guy who finds that alimony, child support, a mortgage, an apartment rental, and private-school tuition are draining his bank accounts faster than he can replenish them. And that’s before he loses his job.
Summer Culture Preview

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Shauna Lyon |Inkoo Kang |Jillian Steinhauer |Sheldon Pearce

You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Whether you are one with the sun or in love with your A.C. unit, summer has plenty in store for you that doesn’t involve a small screen.
“Overcompensating” Is a New Kind of Coming-Out Comedy

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Inkoo Kang

Benny Scanlon, the protagonist of the new comedy “Overcompensating,” is the kind of boy mothers don’t know to warn their daughters about. Tall, handsome, and polite, Benny—played by Benito Skinner—checks a near-comical number of boxes: valedictorian, football player, homecoming king. The Prime Video series opens on Benny’s first day of college, where he instantly clicks with a girl named Carmen (Wally Baram) at orientation.
On “Hacks” and “The Studio,” Hollywood Confronts Its Flop Era

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Inkoo Kang

For years now, Hollywood has been on a losing streak. In the film and television business, good news has been harder to come by than original stories, with the successive disruptions of the pandemic, the writers’ and actors’ strikes, and the wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles in January. “Survive till 2025” was the motto that kept the town going last year, but this year has offered little reprieve.
Can “The Last of Us” Outlive Its Antihero?

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Inkoo Kang

On Sunday night, the post-apocalyptic drama “The Last of Us” had its grandest chapter to date. After the events of the first season, the HBO series’ dual protagonists—Joel (Pedro Pascal), a grizzled smuggler, and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), his impetuous surrogate daughter—decided to settle in Jackson, Wyoming, joining perhaps the only remaining human outpost governed by hope rather than by fear.
Goings On Newsletter

1 month ago | link.newyorker.com | Inkoo Kang |Doreen St. Felix |D. T. Max

Our theatrical spring continues to be a bright one, with a bounty of audacious, boundary-breaking work emerging Off Broadway in the coming weeks. At the Atlantic Theatre Company, Mona Pirnot’s tribute to the downtown theatre scene, “I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan,” is at Atlantic Stage 2, through April 30, and Eliya Smith’s kid-bereavement drama, “Grief Camp,” will be on the mainstage, through May 11.
In “Dying for Sex,” Cancer and Kink Are Just the Beginning

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Inkoo Kang

The scariest unknown for women with cancer, after the disease itself, can be their husbands—a staggering number of whom abandon their wives in the wake of a diagnosis. From the outside, then, Molly (Michelle Williams), the forty-year-old protagonist of the new dramedy “Dying for Sex,” would seem to be one of the lucky ones.
In “Dying for Sex,” Cancer and Kink Are Just the Beginning

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Inkoo Kang

Nicole Scherzinger Poses on the Red Carpet at “BOOP! The Musical”, Plus Jennifer Lopez, James Marsden, Nick Jonas and MoreStars have been everywhere this week, from Nicole Scherzinger, Jennifer Lopez and Nick Jonas spotted at Broadway shows in New York, to James Marsden and Jodie Turner-Smith making appearances at the Deadline Contenders Television 2025 in L.A. Here, are the best photos of celebs out and about this …
The Second Season of “Wolf Hall” Surpasses Its Acclaimed Predecessor

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Inkoo Kang

In the first season of the Tudor-era drama “Wolf Hall,” Anne Boleyn’s brief queendom was undone by rumors. Just three years after she became the second of Henry VIII’s six wives, in 1533, Anne (played by Claire Foy) landed in the Tower of London following accusations of adulterous dalliances, including with her own brother.
The Parental Panic of “Adolescence”

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Inkoo Kang

Minutes into the new Netflix drama “Adolescence,” a thirteen-year-old boy is arrested for murder. Early in the morning, half a dozen officers bash in the front door of a modest family home, and a black-clad policeman rushes upstairs to train a submachine gun on the young suspect, Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper). When the boy stumbles out of bed, it becomes apparent that he’s wet himself in fear.