Review: Bunheads
Bunheads, the latest from Amy Sherman-Palladino (of Gilmore Girls fame) debuted on ABC this week to much excitement across the Internet from fans eager to see her next creative endeavor. Inevitably,...
Category: Arts & Literature
Making Choices in a Kyriarchy: Agency, Power and Politics on Mad Men
Mad Men has always been about how power operates in relationships: How it operates between people in disparate way and what that does to relationships. How it complicates, ruins and sometimes...
Push Girls’ Quiet Revolution
Sundance brought an interesting twist to the reality show on Monday night with Push Girls, its new series featuring four women living in Los Angeles and navigating their disabilities at the same...
A Glorious Near-Miss: Ridley Scott’s Prometheus
The familiar unfamiliar. Stem cells of a universe encoded in our DNA over 30-year period are about to grow in a new direction. A biomechanical mutation in 3 dimensions groans and cracks under the...
Everyone Dies: Looking Back on House
Fox finally pulled up the sheet over House’s face on 21 May, bringing the long series to an end with an aptly titled finale episode, “Everybody Dies.” As season finales of long-running shows...
Review: A Bend In The Road
Male boredom assumes many forms. The simple act of throwing rocks at a tin can. Boy racing a white Toyota Supra up and down the Banks Peninsula. Homophobic abuse. This is the life facing Josh and...
An American Downton Abbey? ABC’s Gilded Lilys tries on the costume drama
Hot off the success of UK costume dramas, ABC has decided to throw its hat into the ring with Gilded Lilys, a...wait for it...Shonda Rhimes creation set in New York City in 1895. The question is...
A Study in Pink: Sherlock and Steven Moffat’s Woman Problem
BBC’s Sherlock has just started running its second season in the US on PBS, and viewers are flocking to watch, particularly after last week’s somewhat controversial Irene Adler storyline. Created...
Scandal: Shonda Rhimes goes political
Ever since The West Wing stopped airing, there has been a notable and gaping hole in the television schedule for a smart, snappy political drama that takes viewers into the corridors of power in...
Seven season finales to watch
May is upon us, which means that season and in some cases series finales are about to start rolling out as the 2011-2012 television season wraps up and the cable networks prepare to take over the...