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Inkoo Kang

Inkoo Kang was a regular film contributor at Voice Media Group and its film partner, the Village Voice, from 2013 to 2016. VMG publications include LA Weekly, Denver Westword, Phoenix New Times, Miami New Times, Broward-Palm Beach New Times, Houston Press and Dallas Observer.

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Amazon’s The Last Tycoon Makes Fitzgerald’s Hollywood Into Standard TV

By Inkoo Kang
Jul 26, 2017

Here’s how a fan magazine might profile the hero of The Last Tycoon (Amazon), played by Matt Bomer. His name belongs in marquees, but he deserves a place somewhere higher. Monroe Stahr toils as an angel on Earth, making dreams come true every day as a producer at Brady-American Pictures...
Insecure Offers TV’s Sharpest Insights on Race but Refuses to Limit Itself to That Subject

By Inkoo Kang
Jul 19, 2017

Insecure returns July 23 on HBO No moment captures the elations of HBO’s Insecure better than the opening scene of the sophomore season’s second episode. The morning after sleeping with her ex-boyfriend, Issa (Issa Rae) recounts her confusion about the abrupt quickie to her snappish best friend, Molly (Yvonne Orji)...
Pubes, Poops, Periods: How Broad City Takes Body Humor (and Feminism) to the Next Level

By Inkoo Kang
Mar 4, 2016

The third season of Broad City (Comedy Central) opens with a toilet-centric montage that already feels like one of the year’s TV highlights. At once exuberant, absurd and all-too-real, a split screen reveals besties Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) living their best lives in their respective bathrooms. They...
American Crime Story’s O.J. Retelling Is a Devastating Tale About Politicizing Justice

By Inkoo Kang
Feb 8, 2016

The queasiest thing about American Crime Story’s (FX) retelling of the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial is how easily such a flagrant miscarriage of justice could happen all over again. The twin forces that most warped that case, after all, still plague us today: a tabloid culture that reduces flesh-and-blood...
The X-Files Brings Back the Conspiracy-Industrial Complex — and Gets Better as It Goes

By Inkoo Kang
Jan 22, 2016

In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower famously left the White House with a warning to the American public about the rise of the military-industrial complex. When Barack Obama exits the Oval Office next year, he wouldn’t be remiss in cautioning the nation about the conspiracy-industrial complex, which has dug its tentacles into...

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