With a rise in interest in sweeping historical dramas filled with intrigue, betrayal, amazing frocks, and sensuality, it’s not surprising to see almost every US network vying to produce some...
The Supreme Court dealt a one-two punch to women’s rights this week, first striking down the buffer zones surrounding reproductive health clinics and then affirming Hobby Lobby’s ‘right’ to...
More than 40 years after Roe v Wade, how is abortion still a taboo subject on television? Most networks dance around it as though they’re afraid the world will collapse if abortion is discussed,...
Everyone’s watching the latest season of Orange is the New Black, but what does that really say about US culture and society? As the thinkpieces roll out, fans fill Twitter, and roundtable...
Oh look, yet another article trashing YA, its authors, and its readers. It must be a day ending in Y. This time, it’s on Slate, where writer Ruth Graham smugly insists that adults who read young...
The United States is eager to show the world that it is experiencing a craft revolution; a rebirth of the artisanal, the local, and hand-crafted, and the individual is flooding store shelves,...
MasterChef is back on Fox for a fifth season of Gordon Ramsey’s yelling, Joe Bastianich’s devastating snark, and Graham Elliot’s kindly, but firm, criticism. We’re watching home cooks from...
In watching Game of Thrones and falling in love with the worldbuilding, the characters, and the stories, there’s one thing that’s inescapable: the misogyny. This is not just a violent, brutal...
The sounds of what I am told is a gun rally pound against the windows of my hotel room in Madison, Wisconsin, as I write. A man’s angry voice, distorted by amplification, and the sounds of a...
Friday’s explosive Hannibal finale left viewers gasping for the next installment of this tight, smart, and creepy television drama, proving that the production team still has the power to shock...