The autumn 2013 television season seems determined to impress with a broad array of shows featuring disabled characters, almost all of whom are in cripface, played by nondisabled actors. (The...
Fox debuted its Sleepy Hollow, a strange mashup of “Rip van Winkle,” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” an assortment of Biblical myths, and made up apocrypha, this week. The show appears to be...
The Miss America pageant may be a bizarre and largely outdated cultural ritual, but it still occupies an iconographic status in a nation obsessed with appearances and the objectification. Even young...
Krissi Biasiello, the Masterchef contender everyone loved to hate, has finally been booted from the Fox reality drama, walking away from the dream of $250,000 in prize money and her own...
Autumn is rapidly approaching here in the Northern Hemisphere, which means my favourite season is almost upon me. It's not just the relief from the relentless heat and humidity that I'm looking...
AMC knows that its time with Breaking Bad is drawing to an end, and it's on a deadline to come up with another driven, mesmerising drama that will keep fans on the edge of their seats and inflaming...
Whenever a prominent transgender person hits the news, the US media seem to stumble. Not just on the respectful and humane treatment of the transgender community, as ample lascivious, gross, and...
Lifetime's incredibly soapy and evidently immensely popular drama Devious Maids has just been picked up for a second season, which is either enough to destroy your faith in Hollywood or further...
California's Bay Area, home to San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Marin, and points surrounding, is widely considered to be one of the most liberal areas of the United States—so much so that...
Prior to this week, I hadn't been in New York City in a very long time. I don't want to say that an ice age had passed, but let's just say that the last time I passed by Calvary Cemetery in the rain...
