TV
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[watch] Do Not Adjust Your Tracking: Unconventional Framing in ‘MR. ROBOT’
If you’re watching MR. ROBOT – which you absolutely, totally, 100% should be – you might have noticed how it makes you feel. Not specifically…
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HBO Isn’t Handling Questions About Its Sexual Violence Problem Well
Some notes from a fierce week at the TCAs. All eyes were on HBO when they kicked off the fourth day of the TCA Press Tour.…
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The TWIN PEAKS Episode Guide: Episode 2 — ZEN, OR THE SKILLS TO CATCH A KILLER
Written by Mark Frost & David Lynch, Directed by David Lynch Airdate April 19th, 1990 Lynch returns to both write and direct the series’ second episode, but…
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How Movie Villains Got To Be So Terrible
We love bad guys too much, so much that we ruined them. Villains used to be the most interesting characters in a movie. And when they…
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Everything I Know About Rio de Janeiro From Movies and TV
Is it really all crime and Carnival all the time? Movie and television depictions of cities can give us very general ideas about those places. Maybe…
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Preacher Hits the Reset Button
Thank God. The show needed it.Cassidy (Joe Gilgun) and Tulip (Ruth Negga) react to Jesse’s plan for the futureA few weeks ago, I wrote about the first…
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Coming to Terms with The End of Game of Thrones
The Big Idea Two more shortened seasons. Let’s enjoy them while they last. Needless to say, I’ve been covering Game of Thrones for a long time. On…
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The Past and Future of Mental Illness on Screen
The various ways mental health is used as a foil for plot. John Hinckley Jr. – the man infamous for an assassination attempt on President Reagan…
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A History of Women Presidents of the United States in Movies and Television
Fiction is still the only place we’ve seen the glass ceiling broken. This November, the people of the United States of America could elect the first…