Indiewire Browse the indiewire network

Press Play

 "The best video essay source on the web." (Roger Ebert) This is a web site built around original video essays and critical, personal writing about movies, TV, music, comics and whatever else interests its contributors. Co-founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, TV critic for New York Magazine, and Ken Cancelosi, it is published by Seitz and Cancelosi and overseen by editor-in-chief Kevin B. Lee and managing editor Max Winter.

Video Essays

  • VIDEO ESSAY: Wong Kar-Wai's Lust for Life
  • VIDEO ESSAY: Directed by De Palma
  • "The First, The Last, My Everything" : Tilda Swinton Da...
  • BADLANDS: Terrence Malick’s “early, funny film”
  • On an Animation of a Sentence by Nathan Englander

THE REGULARS

Monthly Archives

Press Play

MATT ZOLLER SEITZ: The big tease of "Glee"

Reviews
Really, Glee? Was it really necessary to end an episode revolving around virginity loss with a shot of a roaring fireplace? That’s a trick question. Midway through its third season there’s little that’s necessary about Glee, save for the underused Chris Colfer’s performance as out gay teenager Kurt Hummel, the even more severely underused Mike O’Malley’s performance as his dad, one out of every five musical numbers, and Sue Sylvester’s surreal rants, which Jane Lynch sells even when the writing is just sassy word salad. And even those compensatory values aren’t enough to make me watch each week.
Read More »
  • By Matt Zoller Seitz
  • |
  • November 9, 2011 3:07 AM
  • |
  • 1 Comment
More: Matt Zoller Seitz, Glee, Fox, Television

SLIDE SHOW: THE SIMPSONS save halloween, again

Reviews
Read More »
  • By Matt Zoller Seitz
  • |
  • November 1, 2011 9:54 PM
  • |
  • 0 Comments
More: Matt Zoller Seitz, Fox, Television

Follow Us

Blog Roll

Most "Liked"

  • VIDEO ESSAY: Wong Kar-Wai's Lust for ...
  • VIDEO ESSAY: Directed by De Palma
  • "The First, The Last, My Everything" ...
  • BADLANDS: Terrence Malick’s “early, ...
  • On an Animation of a Sentence by Nathan ...
  • Raised in Fear: The Superdynamational ...
  • CANNES 2013: Jia Zhang-ke's A TOUCH ...
  • CANNES 2013: Images, Part 1
  • CANNES 2013: Joel and Ethan Coen's INSIDE ...

Latest Tweets

Follow us

Around The Network

the network

indiewire

categories