Sweeps Week is here, as in what one would think should be one week of programming designed to lure in advertisers by pumping up ratings with thrilling episodes of television, but what’s actually...
Two shows premiering this fall on US television put women in positions of power: CBS’ Madam Secretary and NBC’s State of Affairs. Both do so with varying degrees of success, exploring not just...
The minute the familiar opening montage of Twin Peaks flashes across the screen as I settle back to watch the pilot, I can feel my eyes tingling with nostalgia. The music swells, and we’re swept...
For those not in the US, the nation’s constantly churning election cycle must appear utterly nonsensical. Every time a political race ends and an election wraps up, accompanied by the usual...
In the next six years, we are facing down nearly 40 superhero films, according to announcements from the major studios. That is, to put it mildly, a lot of superhero movies. But the superhero...
The show opens with a vista that’s achingly familiar for me — though I know it’s shot in British Columbia, that great stock replacement for the Pacific Northwest, it feels like home. The...
Is Outlander ‘the feminist answer to Game of Thrones,’ as some people seem to be billing it? That would depend, one supposes, on which definition of feminism is being used. If ‘feminism’...
Showtime’s The Affair is generating a great deal of buzz on the fall television schedule, as a show that might provide an intriguing narrative approach and some insight into the way we view men,...
Transparent is part of Amazon’s answer to Netflix, an attempt to make itself relevant in a new television landscape by producing indie web content for subscribers; and it’s getting rave reviews,...
Series five of Downton Abbey premiered in the UK on Sunday night, which normally would have had ISPs across the US humming as people furtively downloaded the hit British drama. Yet, something curious...
