Robert Lloyd

Los Angeles

Television Critic at Los Angeles Times

L.A. Times TV critic. Sometime sideman. @typingtest at that other place.

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Articles

In 'Mountainhead,' billionaire tech bros watch the world burn

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Robert Lloyd

At the beginning of "Mountainhead," written and directed by Jesse Armstrong of "Succession" fame and premiering Saturday on HBO, three multibillionaire tech bros make their way by private plane, helicopter and SUV caravan to join a fourth in a big modernist house on an isolated, snowy mountaintop for a weekend of poker and drugs - "no deals, no meals, no high heels." One might wish for an avalanche, were there anything higher to fall on them.
Review: In 'Mountainhead,' billionaire tech bros watch the world burn

1 week ago | thederrick.com | Robert Lloyd

At the beginning of "Mountainhead," written and directed by Jesse Armstrong of "Succession" fame and premiering Saturday on HBO, three multibillionaire tech bros make their way by private plane, helicopter and SUV caravan to join a fourth in a big modernist house on an isolated, snowy mountaintop for a weekend of poker and drugs — "no deals, no meals, no high heels." One might wish for an avalanche, were there anything higher to fall on them.
Review: In 'Mountainhead,' billionaire tech bros watch the world burn

1 week ago | latimes.com | Robert Lloyd

At the beginning of “Mountainhead,” written and directed by Jesse Armstrong of “Succession” fame and premiering Saturday on HBO, three multibillionaire tech bros make their way by private plane, helicopter and SUV caravan to join a fourth in a big modernist house on an isolated, snowy mountaintop for a weekend of poker and drugs — “no deals, no meals, no high heels.” One might wish for an avalanche, were there anything higher to fall on them.
Review: In FX's 'Adults,' growing up is hard to do

1 week ago | yoursun.com | Robert Lloyd

In the opening scene of the new FX situation comedy "Adults," (which is rated TV-MA ) Issa (Amita Rao), the most aggressively forward member of a five-person pod of 20-something friends, masturbates back at a man masturbating on a New York City subway train, in a "How do you like that, buddy?" way, as if to teach him a lesson. It doesn't, but a tone is set. kAm%96 E:E=6 :D[ @7 4@FCD6[ :C@?:4]k^AmkAmxDD2[ 2=@?8 H:E9 q:==:6 W{F4J uC6J6CX 2?5 p?E@? W~H6?
Review: In 'Mountainhead,' billionaire tech bros watch the world burn

1 week ago | dailygazette.com | Robert Lloyd

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In FX's 'Adults,' growing up is hard to do

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Robert Lloyd

By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times In the opening scene of the new FX situation comedy "Adults," which premiered May 28, Issa (Amita Rao), the most aggressively forward member of a five-person pod of 20-something friends, masturbates back at a man masturbating on a New York City subway train, in a "How do you like that, buddy?" way, as if to teach him a lesson. It doesn't, but a tone is set. The title is, of course, ironic.
Review: In FX's 'Adults,' growing up is hard to do

1 week ago | thederrick.com | Robert Lloyd

In the opening scene of the new FX situation comedy "Adults," which premiered May 28, Issa (Amita Rao), the most aggressively forward member of a five-person pod of 20-something friends, masturbates back at a man masturbating on a New York City subway train, in a "How do you like that, buddy?" way, as if to teach him a lesson. It doesn't, but a tone is set. The title is, of course, ironic.
Review: In FX's 'Adults,' growing up is hard to do

1 week ago | latimes.com | Robert Lloyd

In the opening scene of the new FX situation comedy “Adults,” premiering Wednesday, Issa (Amita Rao), the most aggressively forward member of a five-person pod of 20-something friends, masturbates back at a man masturbating on a New York City subway train, in a “How do you like that, buddy?” way, as if to teach him a lesson. It doesn’t, but a tone is set. The title is, of course, ironic.
'100 Foot Wave,' 'Tylenol Murders' and 'Mormon Wives' for your holiday weekend streaming

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Yvonne Villarreal |Robert Lloyd |Lorraine Ali

Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who longs for the expansion of dirty soda chain Swig so we can feel better equipped to deal with #MomTok drama (IYKYK). It’s been a week since the second season of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” dropped on Hulu, but die-hard reality TV watchers have likely already inhaled all nine episodes with the same unwavering commitment as the cast member trying to make us believe that her husband is related to Ben Affleck. (Spoiler alert: He is not.
Review: 'Pee-wee as Himself' gives Paul Reubens the final word on his identity

2 weeks ago | thederrick.com | Robert Lloyd

"I was born in 1938 in a little house on the edge of the Mississippi River; my father worked on a steamboat and his name was Steamboat Milton," says Paul Reubens by way of misdirection in Matt Wolf's sideways-titled documentary epic "Pee-wee as Himself," premiering Friday on HBO.