Tag: tv
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How Comedy-Led Horror TV Helped Me Navigate My Pandemic Worries
For a long time, I wouldn’t have identified as a horror fan. It’s not that I’m afraid of blood, guts, or a suspenseful moment — rather, the inescapable darkness of the genre sometimes proves too much for me. I don’t always want to see the dark underbelly of humanity exposed. So it came as something…
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The Spiritual Death of Miranda Hobbes: When a Queer-coded Feminist Icon Becomes the Punchline
In recent years, queer representation has been one of the hottest topics when it comes to writing new media. Today more than ever it has become necessary for its social importance, but with time this has made room for marketing strategies. Along with pink-washing and superficial inclusivity, depictions of queer-baiting, clichés and stereotypes swarm film…
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Sex, Drugs and Torture Porn: The Empty Provocations Of ‘The Idol’
Sam Levinson, the self-defined “sick and twisted mind” behind the Gen-Z sleeper hit Euphoria, has joined forces with musician, producer and now, ostensibly, ‘actor,’ Abel ‘The Weeknd’ Tesfaye to write and direct what he has described as “the biggest show of the summer” at its initial press conference: HBO’s The Idol. Despite the initial public…
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‘XO, Kitty’ Passes The Melodramatic Baton To The Younger Covey – TV Review
After her success with Lara Jean and Peter, little sister Kitty (Anna Cathcart) is determined to make a match for herself. But with a long-distance boyfriend, the lengths she will go to have to be more drastic than a letter. Getting a scholarship at his home turf, the Korean Independence School of Seoul, she is…
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Apple TV+’s Dystopian Sci-Fi ‘Silo’ Offers Up More Questions Than It Can Answer – TV Review
Apple TV + appears to have found a niche in high-concept science fiction. Silo follows Foundations and Extrapolations as a gritty dystopian future that feels grounded enough, in reality, to hit a nerve with modern audiences. Silo is based on Wool, a self-published sci-fi book series by Hugh Howey, who also serves as an executive…
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Womanhood And Grief Are Gracefully Explored In The Kathryn Hahn-Led ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ – TV Review
We first meet Clare (Kathryn Hahn) drunk in the back of a stranger’s car, before she is forced to break into her own home. Only it’s the home of her ex-husband and daughter, who kicked her out days prior. Clare is proudly messy and an expert in loss and family complications. Womanhood is complicated, it’s…
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How ‘Happy Valley’ Helped me Come to Terms With my Own Difficult Relationship with my Father
*This piece contains major spoilers for the TV show Happy Valley* It hasn’t been easy coming to terms with being related to someone who is, at their core, a terrible person. Someone who has ruined lives, including mine, for the sadistic thrill of getting away with the crime or to convince themselves they’re smarter than…
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In ‘Poker Face’ Natasha Lyonne Delights as an Amateur Detective – TV Review
Rian Johnson’s Poker Face cracks campy, “howcatchem” cold cases in mystery-of-the-week format.
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‘Interview With The Vampire’ Examines Difficult Themes With Focus And Understanding – TV Review
Because gay people have been so maligned in U.S. culture for decades, it’s tempting to avoid ever painting them poorly in Hollywood films and TV. When depiction does not equate to endorsement, it becomes easier to open up the possibilities of storytelling and understand that not all queer tales must be happy and not all…