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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

TV Feature

Women and ‘The Wire’

by Sophie Jones

[25.Aug.08] :. Why the most intelligent show on TV, a compelling exploration of the circumstances and institutional pressures that make people who they are, gets an "F" in Gender Studies.

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The Wire: The Complete Fifth Season

by Chris Barsanti

[15.Aug.08] :. The dense mythology, painstakingly created over five novelistic seasons, has enough drama packed inside to be easily spun out for the next five, ten, 15 years.

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TV Review

The Wire

by Jesse Hicks

[27.Jan.08] :. In David Simon's indictment of American capitalism, numbers -- say, crime stats and school test scores -- no longer have an epistemic value, they don't refer to any external reality.

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