TUBE BE OR NOT TUBE BE

Opening here this weekend is Eighth Grade, writer-director Bo Burnham's chronicle of a few days in the life of an eighth grader. I had the opportunity to sit down with Burnham recently; check out my interview online at Phoenix New Times.

Just because it plays Saturday on Comet TV...

Monster-of-the-Week: ...our honoree is the title character of The Twonky...

 
...the control-freak ambulatory TV set that bedevils Hans Conried in Arch Oboler's peculiar 1953 satire...