Carina Chocano

Join the shame parade Join the shame parade

From Kate Gosselin to Elizabeth Edwards to Facebook users, the scorned are flaunting humiliation like never before.
By Carina Chocano May 28, 2009

  • Black gay men are the new, um, black

    You just knew that the "Noah's Arc" movie was going to be huge. Right? Also, "Synecdoche" opens strong and "Rachel" hums along, in a week tinged with sadness.
    By Andrew O'Hehir October 29, 2008

  • Giving "chick flicks" flack

    An L.A. Times story tackles the problematic labeling of "chick flicks."
    By Rebecca Traister November 13, 2005

  • What's Spanish for "fuhgeddaboudit"?

    NBC's drug-lord miniseries "Kingpin" isn't really a crude Latino rip-off of "The Sopranos," say its creators, it's ... Shakespearean! Plus: "Dragnet" -- it's about a cop.
    By Carina Chocano February 4, 2003

  • Dark late-night of the soul

    Helpless, alone, rejected by female guests except Tammy Faye Bakker, Jimmy Kimmel drifts toward the ninth circle of talk-show hell.
    By Carina Chocano January 30, 2003

  • "Love manuals are evil"

    Salon columnist Carina Chocano talks about her new book, "Do You Love Me, or Am I Just Paranoid?"
    By Heather Havrilesky January 28, 2003

  • Find man, lose him, repeat cycle

    The thinking girl's guide to serial monogamy.
    By Carina Chocano January 28, 2003

  • Brewskis, butt jokes and reefer madness

    This year's Super Bowl ads reflect a depressed nation: We need jobs, our animals don't talk anymore and we're terrified of big butts and bad drugs. How 'bout a beer?
    By Carina Chocano January 27, 2003

  • Spy vs. spy (vs. Mom and Dad)

    ABC's "Alias" features a butt-kicking espionage babe, awesome costumes and settings and possibly the most convoluted family drama in TV history. So why isn't it huge yet?
    By Carina Chocano January 23, 2003

  • TV's queen bitch

    Joan Rivers is unbelievably vile and crude -- she and daughter Melissa must get their own reality show! Plus: Kelly Osbourne gives a clinic on dealing with Dad.
    By Carina Chocano January 22, 2003

  • Scenes from the class struggle on Fox

    In "Joe Millionaire," with its lumpen-wacky TV vision of the rich, pop culture finally faces inequality in "classless" America.
    By Carina Chocano January 15, 2003

  • Reality TV's clone wars

    Yeah, "The Bachelorette" and the rest of the next-gen reality shows are the mutant offspring of deformed parents. Sometimes that's better.
    By Carina Chocano January 11, 2003

  • Ordinary people

    With "Lance Loud! A Death in an American Family," PBS closes the circle on the legendary 1973 series that mesmerized the nation and prefigured reality TV.
    By Carina Chocano January 6, 2003

  • Bureaucracy made hilarious

    Fox's absurd-yet-true office comedy "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" makes other sitcoms look as if they're die-stamped by robots. (Which they are.)
    By Carina Chocano December 12, 2002

  • Divorce Italian style

    No major characters got whacked in the season finale of "The Sopranos." The destruction was way bigger than that.
    By Carina Chocano December 10, 2002

  • Lightening up the graveyard shift

    On Comedy Central's "Insomniac," join stand-up comic Dave Attell on his boozy journey through a late-night world of drunks, strippers, cops, sewage workers and just plain folks.
    By Carina Chocano December 4, 2002

  • Oprah's hulking stepchild

    No-nonsense "Dr. Phil" has struck a national nerve with his bootstrap psychology. But can he escape the shadow of his famous patron?
    By Carina Chocano December 2, 2002

  • Stardom hasn't spoiled "The Osbournes"

    America's fave TV family is back -- and ready to prove they can survive George W. Bush, Greta Van Susteren and whatever other horrors fate may bring them.
    By Carina Chocano November 27, 2002

  • Meet "The Moth"

    Manhattan's hit nightclub storytelling series comes to TV, minus the cocktails but with its intimate front-porch spirit intact.
    By Carina Chocano November 16, 2002

  • This story takes place on the day of the "24" season premiere. Bong!

    Sen. Palmer is now the president, Jack has facial hair, and North Koreans are planning to nuke L.A. Hey, and where's Nina? Tick, tick, tick.
    By Carina Chocano October 29, 2002

  • An alternate TV universe

    The Hollywood renegades at the Other Network are bringing legendary failed TV pilots to a comedy club near you. And they're better than what got on the air.
    By Carina Chocano October 24, 2002

  • Real parents, dumb kids, David Duchovny doing weather

    Bonnie Hunt discovers an unconventional path to good comedy on her extremely funny new sitcom "Life With Bonnie."
    By Carina Chocano October 22, 2002

  • How to catch a wild young king

    Hot for Prince Harry or Prince Felipe? Better learn to race cars and sail yachts, advises "Young, Sexy & Royal." And whatever you do -- don't curtsy!
    By Carina Chocano October 19, 2002

  • We're, like, totally lawyers -- as if!

    David E. Kelley's ditsy new "girls club" is a great step backward for the legal profession, women in the workplace, San Francisco and decent TV.
    By Carina Chocano October 17, 2002

  • Holy Batbabes!

    In the WB's bizarrely entertaining "Birds of Prey," Batman has skipped town -- but his illegitimate daughter and a reshaped Batgirl are kickin' butt in New Gotham.
    By Carina Chocano October 14, 2002
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