Friday, August 15 2008
The Wire: The Complete Fifth Season
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.
Sunday, January 27 2008
The Wire
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.
Friday, January 18 2008
High Redefinition: The 30 Best TV Shows of 2007
In memoriam of a TV season cut down before its prime time, PopMatters staff celebrates the Top 30 TV Shows of 2007. Some are old favorites. Others have barely made their impression felt. But at a time when all broadcast fortunes are up in the air, they definitely deserve the recognition.
Friday, October 12 2007
Part 5 - Beyond the Envelope
The format forced the issue among cult and commercial products. And TV on DVD highlighted the cream of the creative, forward thinking crop.
Friday, March 9 2007
Life Support
What shines through in Life Support are the life experiences of safe sex advocates and real women living with the virus.
Wednesday, January 10 2007
Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006
From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.
Wednesday, September 20 2006
The Wire
This is the consequence of America's broken systems: a young boy staring into the darkness, wondering what else his future might bring.
Monday, August 21 2006
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
When the Levees Broke, elegant and anguished, encourages you to see, and more importantly, to care about and act on what you see. It is political in the most significant sense, and won't let you forget it.
