Last Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal published a deeply sourced article about the corporate culture at Netflix. Speaking to more than 70 current and former employees of the streaming service, reporters Shalini Ramachandran and Joe Flint pull back the curtain on a workplace where transparency is valued above all…
In devastating news for seekers of dick-and/or-poo-based truth, Netflix is pulling the plug on American Vandal. A true-crime parody about two teenage documentarians, Peter Maldonado and Sam Ecklund, investigating sublimely juvenile crimes within America’s schools, the Funny Or Die and CBS TV-produced comedy series is…
Episode 1: “The Brownout” | Episode 2: “#2” | Episode 3: “Leaving a Mark” | Episode 4: “Shit Talk” | Episode 5: “Wiped Clean” | Episode 6: “All Backed Up” | Episode 7: “Shit Storm” | Episode 8: “The Dump” |
What started off feeling like a less ambitious, more juvenile season of American Vandal slowly revealed itself to be something much greater and more unexpected. The saga of the Turd Burglar is not just about Mrs. Montgomery getting covered in shit or T-shirts launched with cat feces on them. It’s also about an entire…
“I haven’t exactly been honest with you, Peter...”
What people who dismiss American Vandal as just puerile humor miss is that it’s much smarter than it looks from the outside. Yes, it has funny poop jokes. And lots of poop jokes. And more poop jokes. But as this episode proved, the writers are also willing to wade into the complex territory of social politics and high…
Would a prestigious private school cover up a crime to protect their reputation and the status of one of their most popular students? This is the question at the heart of the fifth episode of the great second season of American Vandal, as Peter and Sam attempt to prove that there was a fourth poop crime, thereby…
At the halfway point of the second season of American Vandal, we have even less certainty over the answer to one of 2018's most pressing questions than we did when we started: Just who is the Turd Burglar? The authorities of St. Bernardine’s are still convinced that the villain is Kevin ‘Shit Stain’ McClain, but…
The writers of American Vandal turn the focus of this season from bullying to athletic privilege in the best episode so far this year. Anyone who attended a high school or college of reasonable size can relate to the fact that athletes are often granted more privilege than their counterparts. After all, they bring in…
The second episode of the new season of American Vandal deepened the mystery of the story of the Turd Burglar, first feeling like a riff on Making a Murderer in its examination of false confessions, but ending with Sam’s theory that maybe Kevin ‘Shit Stain’ McClain’s confession wasn’t false after all. We also learn…
Last year’s brilliant first season of American Vandal didn’t just introduce the world to Baby Farting and the perfect comic timing of Jimmy Tatro (your biggest Emmy nomination snub of 2018). It also asked one of the most pressing questions of our time: “Who drew the dicks?” It was one-part mystery, one-part parody,…
The day that modern-day oracle (and FX president) John Landgraf warned us about is here: The Streamapocalypse, a date we’ve dubbed such because it’s absolutely packed with complete seasons of new and returning shows across multiple genres. Want to settle in for some big laughs? Netflix has a couple of options for you.…
September is going to be a pretty big month for Netflix originals, with Norm Macdonald’s talk show and Josh Groban’s cop show premiering, Iron Fist and American Vandal both getting new seasons, and Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold The Dark making its debut, but—no offense to that stuff—the streaming service is really getting a…
American Vandal trailer reveals the second season’s central mystery: “Who is the Turd Burglar?” Will it be as captivating a question as “Who did the dicks?” We’ll find out on Friday, September 14.
Netflix’s American Vandal was one of the most refreshingly smart shows of the last year, a surprisingly emotional parody of our true crime obsessions, pitched through the lens of two teen documentarians investigating the case for, and against, a dopey high school prankster accused of committing a massive, expensive…
The first season of Netflix’s American Vandal is a masterpiece of deadpan comedy, not least because it mimics the structure of a true-crime documentary so precisely, you actually find yourself getting sucked in to the mystery of who spray-painted dicks all over the faculty parking lot of Hanover High. The show is…
Even though Netflix is loath to tell us exactly how many of its subscribers are watching what, the streaming platform does release its own year-end list of superlatives like any good media company. And the original series that users couldn’t get enough of, that they binged at a rate of 2+ hours of viewing per day,…
Of the many clever flourishes within Netflix’s mockumentary sleeper American Vandal, the decision to not identify the eponymous graffiti artist—i.e. who drew the dicks—sticks out. With its central mystery still unsolved, American Vandal is now set to return for a second season sometime in 2018. Netflix announced the…
Three staffers, three unabashed recommendations.
Halloween draws nigh, and with it the annual parade of ghosts and goblins, trolls and Trumps, pumpkins and David S. Pumpkins, and other, equally obvious guises drawn from the well of contemporary pop culture. But you read The A.V. Club (or, at least, you scroll past it on the way to the comments). Your refined tastes…
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