True Blood: Time for the True Death?
My response thus far to the fifth season of True Blood on HBO has been one of overwhelming ennui. The show appears to have long-ago passed its ‘use by’ date, and right now it’s skulking in the...
Category: Sex
Sex Online? The Ultra-Orthodox Rally Against the Internet
In New York yesterday, forty thousand Haredim (“ultra Orthodox”) and Hassidic male Jews crammed into Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets, in an asifa (rally) against the Internet. It was a...
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...
The Threat of Women’s Autonomy: The Vatican’s Crackdown on Nuns
Working to eradicate poverty! Promoting better healthcare! The Catholic Church has been responsible for some atrocious things over the centuries, but working towards economic justice and helping sick...
Who is HBO’s Girls For?
Watching HBO’s Girls felt like standing around at a party with a bunch of people trading insider jokes I don’t get; at the same time that I was being welcomed as part of the club, it was obvious...
Baby and Booth Makes Three: Can Bones Still Work As A Family Drama?
Bones is back with a bang—and a baby—after its long hiatus. Nearly four months after viewers last saw Booth, Brennan, and the gang, ‘The Prisoner In the Pipe’ swung people back into the...
Sex Scandals in America: Jason Russell, John Edwards and Our Hashtag Attention Spans
If Jason Russell’s public masturbation meltdown means anything at all, it surely has nothing to do with Ugandans or central Africans as such. No, if anything, it illuminates the cluttered and –...
What Love Looks Like: Seeing Valentine’s Day Anew
Who likes to show Valentine's Day a bit of love? Show of hands. I, for one, never have, because it has seemed to me that squishing expressions of love into one day of socially-approved...
Spartacus: Bloody Great or Just Plain Bloody?
After a bit of a production delay, Spartacus: Vengeance kicked off the season with a bloodbath from beginning to end, interspersed with the occasional soft-core porn. The Starz adaptation of the...
We Were Here: An Oral History of AIDS in San Francisco
We Were Here is a superb oral history from the peak years of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco, which at one point was killing over 1,400 people annually. Director and producer David Weissman has...