Review: Mercy Street
On Sunday night, the first original PBS drama for broadcast in 10 years, Mercy Street, hit the airwaves, hoping to coast off Downton Abbey as a lead-in. 3.3 million people tuned in for the programme,...
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Dark Energy: Why HBO’s “The Leftovers” is the Best Show You’re Not Watching
Death is peculiar. It marks us all as guests and travelers on this planet, as guests of being – or what we know of being, anyway. Even if one believes in the permutation and transcendence of the...
Why Voters Turned From Hillary to Sanders
Hillary Clinton, who came in to the 2016 presidential race so strong, is now fledging - dangerously close to being usurped by a resurgent Bernie Sanders. Clinton went through this before in 2008 and...
Director Sydney Freeland on Trans-centric Web Series “Her Story”
A web series about a couple of Los Angelenas discovering love when they least expect it sounds less “groundbreaking” than stereotypical indie pitch. Yet “Her Story,” which debuts its first...
Making A Murderer: Why Americans Are Obsessed With True Crime
Jack the Ripper. Jeffrey Dahmer. The Black Dahlia. The Green River Killer. The Lindbergh Baby. We are obsessed with true crime and the killers that drive it, from the penny dreadfuls of the late...
How Obama’s Gun Law Executive Action Hurts People With Mental Illness
This week, President Obama announced a sweeping series of executive actions to address the urgent need for gun reform in the United States, attempting to circumvent Congress since it refuses to act...
2015: The Year in Books
2015 has been an interesting and sometimes controversial year in the world of literature in English. (I am not equipped to comment on the rich and varied non-English-language literary scene, so this...
Five Shows to Look Forward to in 2016
New year, new TV! Old standards are returning from their midseason break, but more importantly, there’s a fresh crop of television including midseason pickups and, of course, fall shows — while...
The Greatest Christmas Songs Of All Time – With Added Spotify List!
For the last month, we at Global Comment have posted a song a day of the best Christmas songs of all time. Now, here they are gathered together into one post, with an added Spotify list. What's your...
Global Comment Advent Calendar 23: “All I Want for Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey
Today's calendar entry is - confession time - my personal all-time favourite Christmas song. I love all of the songs we've featured in the calendar but the reason I really love this one is its...