TV Comedy Has a Woman Problem
TV comedy has a woman problem. The representation of women in comedy in general is depressingly low, and it’s especially obvious on television, where most of the faces people see on screen are not...
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Review: CW’s Reign
The CW has jumped on the historical drama train with Reign, a highly fictionalised look at the early years of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots during her years at the French court. With three...
Review: NBC’s Dracula
Last week brought us the premiere of NBC’s Dracula, in which the title character arrives in 19th century London under the guise of an American industrialist, but if you’re expecting a...
LFF 2013 Dispatch 3: The Sacrament, Good Ol’ Freda, New World, The Congress
Masquerading as a “Vice” magazine documentary, Ti West’s latest film, “The Sacrament” makes chilling use of immersionist journalism to reimagine the “Jonestown Massacre” as a...
We’re All Mad Here: Gender and Mental Illness on Once Upon A Time In Wonderland
Amongst the supernatural shows on television this season comes an interesting entry: Once Upon A Time in Wonderland, ABC’s spinoff of its hit Once Upon A Time. Unlike the original series, which...
Dull and Amazingly Racist: Joss Whedon’s Agents of SHIELD
Last week on Agents of SHIELD: An angry Black man threatens to blow up a train station full of innocent people. This week: A mysterious explosive device is found inside an oddly young 'Incan pyramid'...
Review: Sleepy Hollow pilot
Fox debuted its Sleepy Hollow, a strange mashup of “Rip van Winkle,” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” an assortment of Biblical myths, and made up apocrypha, this week. The show appears to be...
Fall TV Preview
Autumn is rapidly approaching here in the Northern Hemisphere, which means my favourite season is almost upon me. It's not just the relief from the relentless heat and humidity that I'm looking...
Review: Low Winter Sun
AMC knows that its time with Breaking Bad is drawing to an end, and it's on a deadline to come up with another driven, mesmerising drama that will keep fans on the edge of their seats and inflaming...
Six Myths About New York TV Taught Me
Prior to this week, I hadn't been in New York City in a very long time. I don't want to say that an ice age had passed, but let's just say that the last time I passed by Calvary Cemetery in the rain...