The sixth season of Mad Men aired on Sunday to rather a mixed response from critics; Alyssa Rosenberg at Think Progress probably put it most succinctly when she noted that: ‘The risk for Mad Men is...
On Tuesday morning, Twitter user auntie crissle (@crissles) posed the following question to her followers: ‘Do you think people currently on govt assistance (welfare, food stamps, section 8, TANF,...
Doctor Who came back from a brief hiatus this weekend with a rather unremarkable episode revolving around a plot to steal human minds over wifi networks in order to feed a mysterious client. Its main...
One of the most critically acclaimed episodes of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer was season five’s ‘The Body,’ about the death of Buffy and Dawn’s mother Joyce. In a television show...
Loud Hands (The Autistic Press, 2012) is a revolutionary anthology curated by autistic people and filled with autistic voices. It takes narratives back from the neurotypical community and challenges...
Jane Campion is at it again with Top of the Lake, a seven hour miniseries that debuted at this year’s Sundance Festival and is airing on The Sundance Channel starting this week. Set in Campion’s...
One area in which the Obama Administration has been quietly successful is in advocacy for disabled people. The Department of Justice under Obama, for example, has pursued a number of cases fighting...
ABC Family’s Switched at Birth has already been making television history with the heavily integrated use of American Sign Language (ASL) in its episodes; revolving around the lives of Deaf, hard...
Fox is building up its reputation in the thriller genre with The Following, which follows (forgive me) in the footsteps of programming like 24. Starring Kevin Bacon as Ryan Hardy, an ex-FBI agent...
CBS’ Elementary has been saddled with the difficulty of distinguishing itself from the beloved BBC Sherlock, and, in a sense, justifying its existence. Sherlock fans were incensed when the rival...
