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...
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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...
Late Night TV Responds to the Paris Attacks
US late night television is a cultural institution that keeps night owls up with comedy, political commentary, and satire, with some programmes like Saturday Night Live stretching back decades. Often...
The Walking Dead: In Praise of Stupidity
Many viewers of AMC’s The Walking Dead have complex feelings for the show. It’s kind of like a high school relationship that makes you listen to a lot of Cure and repeatedly doodle broken...
Review: Aziz Ansari’s Master of None
Aziz Ansari, like many before him, has taken to Netflix as the platform for an intriguing series that allows him to explore television in a new way—with the added bite at pushing at how the United...
We Still Need a Female Hero: Revisiting “In Praise of Joanne Rowling’s Hermione Granger series”
“In Praise of Joanne Rowling’s Hermione Granger series” was all over my social-media @-replies a few weeks ago. Again. This has happened often, in the four years since I wrote the piece....