Every presidential photo op is another meme possibility these days, and today’s (5/24/17) audience at the Vatican with the Holy Father was no different... Apply everyone’s favorite closing theme, and presto...

2017

May

CABLE BLUES By Eric Gould

Here’s Last Week Tonight’s recent (and perhaps ultimate) super cut of cable news panels. In case you didn’t already agree, this might help illustrate how cable news food fights might make for good ratings but not for public good...

2017

May

ABOVE THE STREETS WITH NO NAME By Eric Gould

U2 has set out on the road this month in celebration of the 30th anniversary of their milestone album “The Joshua Tree”. Back in the stone age, (mid-’80s) most of us could be found in front of MTV, watching hours of music videos... U2 could be frequently found there, and this cut, a live performance of “Where the Streets Have No Name” on an LA rooftop tore a page out of The Beatles “Let it Be” playbook...

2017

May

‘I CALLED SAUL'?: CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT FOR A ‘BREAKING BAD’ III By Eric Gould

Far from being a weak stepsister to the Breaking Bad original, Better Call Saul has created its own, must-see world backstory of scam artist Jimmy McGill and his Walter White-like descent to become the wily criminal jailhouse lawyer Saul Goodman... so why not a third chapter?...

2017

May

THEN CAME MICHAEL PARKS By Eric Gould

Actor Michael Parks passed away yesterday, (5/10/17) in Los Angeles. Parks was known more recently for edgy roles in Kill Bill and Grindhouse. But us youngsters remember him fondly for his breakout TV role in Then Came Bronson (1969-70), where he played a lonesome vagabond, an ex-newspaperman who gave it all up and took to the highway on a motorcycle...

2017

May

SATURDAY NIGHT DIVE By Eric Gould

In the wake of the President firing FBI director James Comey today (5/9/17) it’s natural to look back to the last time a Commander-in-Chief shook Washington and got rid of an official who may not be too favorable to his current legal plight. Richard Nixon fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox on Saturday, October 20, 1973, after he refused to let Nixon out of providing secret audio tapes made of White House meetings...

2017

May

WHOLE LATTE LOVE By Eric Gould

The rumors have been out there for a while, but once it became public this week that MSNBC Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged, it didn’t take sister channel NBC too long to roll out the satire on Saturday Night Live...

2017

May

NOT KEN BURNS: THE CIVIL WAR By Eric Gould

The President yesterday (5/1/17) mused that his idol, Andrew Jackson, could have made a tremendous deal between the North and the South, averting the Civil War... CONAN found a clip in a strangely familiar documentary style by the Commander-In-Chief which speculated on other alt-events...

2017

May

MEET THE (FAKE) PRESS By Eric Gould

The White House press corps were the main story last Saturday night, with the WHCA annual dinner going on with the President not in attendance for the first time since the ‘80s. Full Frontal host Samantha Bee jumped in, hosting her own Not the White House Correspondents Dinner, and Allison Janney reprised her role as press secretary C.J. Cregg from The West Wing, but this time presiding over an obviously different group of alt-press reporters...

2017

Apr

DONALD OF 100 DAYS By Eric Gould

Hyper-condensed satire is the bedrock on which The Simpsons is built, and this clip from the upcoming episode looking at the presidential benchmark of the first 100 days in office is no exception... the TV news has Ivanka wearing new wardrobe and accessories on sale as she takes her appointed seat on the Supreme Court. And, there’s a new explanation for the Commander-in-Chief’s hairstyle...

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Eric Gould is a writer in Boston and Associate Editor for tvworthwatching.com. With prior stints in art, music, photography and design, he casts a wide net across the media pool fishing for the smart, the surprising and the oddly compelling. He will have essays on Rectify, Six Feet Under and Girls in the upcoming “Finale: Considering the Ends of Television Series” from Syracuse University Press. Email him at gould@tvworthwatching.com

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