Happy! Strikes a Winking Macho Pose

At once trivial and dire, SyFy’s Happy! is another one of those comic-book-inspired nihilist action-comedies that turns the carefully developed aesthetic of film noir, one of this country’s greatest cultural achievements, into a series of winking macho poses. It’s set in a rainy, grimy, dystopian metropolis. Criminal gangs rule a town in...More »