Vikram Murthi is a film and TV critic from Chicago, currently based in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in The A.V. Club, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, and elsewhere.
The Academy Awards felt like a hyperactive fever dream, but really it was just a terribly engineered event that reeked of neediness and obsolescence and that was given its sole moment of excitement by an act of unscripted violence.
With the latest season of Master of None, the comedian and director’s attempt at a reboot of his creative approach reveals the limits of his perspective.
A cult musician, actor, and director returns with a television show that’s nominally about painting but is in reality a creative and spiritual journey.