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...
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...
Looking Back on Downton Abbey
Five years ago, audiences were introduced to the sprawling country estate of Downton Abbey at the turning point of a century of turmoil: The RMS Titanic had just sunk, taking the heirs of the estate...
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 State of TV Today
As 2015 draws to a close, television is falling into a bit of a lull, between shows taking their midseason breaks or wrapping up their short seasons. In January, programming will resume with crowd...
How Star Wars Can Avoid Becoming Dude Wars: A Feminist Wish List
Well, friends, it is December of 2015. And, in the midst of the shrieking, writhing, hyperbole-spewing horror show that is the Internet (expressed any opinions about the US election lately? No? Good...
Director David Holbrooke Discusses “The Diplomat”
With both the fight against ISIS and the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris on American’s minds both at home and abroad, a doc doesn’t deliver much more timely lessons than those of David...
Grown-up Comics: Netflix’s Jessica Jones Reflects on Female Trauma
Netflix dropped Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Friday and the internet hasn’t been able to shut up about it since, particularly when it comes to a corner of the internet that tends to be particularly...