Recent times have been challenging for everyone. We've all had to deal with different issues such as forced isolation, fear of getting sick, mental and physical health, loss of loved ones and...
Mareike Jenner, Anglia Ruskin University TV police shows are a complicated strand of entertainment. Unsurprisingly, they have come under the cultural microscope in response to police brutality and...
Somewhere along the way, it feels like podcasts took over. There is a podcast for everything, and I do mean everything (if you don’t believe me, just google whatever obscure hobby plus the word...
I’m sure you’ve noticed, but we now have about 10,000 dedicated streaming services. Everyone wants in on that, including Apple, though they’ve done a pretty piss poor of promoting their Apple...
We tend to believe that populations are capable of understanding the causes of the history we live through. However, history has been repeated in various scenarios, demonstrating that minority...
While 2019 was a crappy year for politics and the effects of climate change (among other things), it was an outstanding year for pop culture. If you had trouble navigating the firehose-like release...
So much television is produced nowadays it’s impossible to keep track of everything that comes out. Between the usual network and cable content and the ten thousand or so streaming services that...
With the frantic holiday season in full swing - not to mention a US presidential impeachment, a countdown to Brexit, and the end of liberal democracy as we know it (or so sayeth Twitter) - the final...
A nostalgic generation was eagerly awaiting the premiere of Netflix's El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. It's only been six years since the last season of the acclaimed series ended, but fans missed...
Welcome to the spooky season! Let’s talk about one of my personal favorite heroes of horror: the Devil! The devil has always had a home in popular culture. Our parents’ parents’ parents have...