Recent TV Features

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Tuesday, November 17 2009

Alison Brie and Donald Glover of ‘Community’

By PopMatters Staff

Alison Brie, who plays Trudy on Mad Men and Donald Glover, who wrote for 30 Rock before joining the Community cast, indulge in a friendly, teasing, tête à tête of sorts, as they consider PopMatters 20 Questions.

Friday, November 6 2009

Fast Food TV

By Ian Chant

The Next Iron Chef is not a show about cooking. It is a show about people freaking out; cooking just happens to be what they’re doing while they’re freaking out.

Thursday, October 29 2009

Syfy ‘Ghost Hunters’: Living Normally Within Paranormal Pop Culture

By Aaron Sagers

Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of Ghost Hunters have transcended the paranormal entertainment niche, become lasting pop-culture mainstays, and are busiest men in the ghost business.

Friday, October 23 2009

PopMatters @ 10

By PopMatters Staff

PopMatters celebrates its birthday this week with a series of essays on cultural changes over our 10-year lifespan. Today: Mark Reynolds on "The Long and Short of Long-Form Journalism" and Nikki Tranter on "Exit from Nowheresville: My 10 Years with PopMatters".

Sunday, October 11 2009

Aziz Ansari

By PopMatters Staff

Named Entertainment Weekly’s top 12 future stars of comedy, Aziz Ansari has a voracious appetite for performing, eating, and… just about anything else that is subject to an appetite.

Thursday, October 8 2009

Tim and Eric Awesome Show ... Interesting Job

By Thomas Britt

Through absurd humour, this show relentlessly disparages the wholesale futility of masculine posturing, useless products, and mindless modern entertainment.

Friday, September 25 2009

America’s Best Dance Crew: A Step Into the Limelight

By Alistair Dickinson

America's Best Dance Crew judge Shane Sparks explains his show's unlikely beginnings, its ongoing significance, and what hopes lie ahead for crew-based hip-hop dancing...

Monday, August 31 2009

Everything Is for Sale: The Merchandising of ‘Buffy’

By Cyrus Fard

Buffy the Vampire Slayer's lasting success tells us that demographic targeting is a complex process that requires both fan participation and forms of merchandising that literally allow everything to be for sale.

Sunday, August 30 2009

Californication’s Note-perfect Becca

By Ben Travers

Madeleine Martin reflects on a season of Californication that saw her character, Becca Moody, play an essential part in Hank’s slow transition to adulthood.

Friday, August 14 2009

“You’re Not Don Draper”

By Adam Kotsko

Last season on Mad Men, as marketing master Don Draper became a recognizable brand in the real world, the show that gave birth to him began to dismantle his identity episode by episode.

Friday, August 7 2009

“And Now Your Moment of Zen”: The Cultural Significance of ‘The Daily Show’

By Jeremy Griffin

The Daily Show is an intellectual respite from the self-aggrandizing sensationalism of traditional news sources, and as such, one can’t help but cringe a little at the idea that it, too, may have begun to take itself a bit too seriously.

Friday, May 22 2009

Star Trek’s Lost Legacy of Literary Pretension

By Kit MacFarlane

What's a Kirk without Earth-poet Shakespeare? Has the awkward Star Trek quotation spat its last breath? Trek's lost legacy of literary pretension.

Thursday, April 23 2009

The Ethics of Dr. Gregory House

By Adam Kotsko

House both fulfills and questions its viewers’ fantasies of a medical utopia in which doctors are brilliant, attentive, and affordable

Friday, April 17 2009

On Evas and Angels: Postmodern Fantasy Devotion to Neon Genesis Evangelion

By Cyrus Fard

More than a decade after its debut, Neon Genesis Evangelion continues to reign as a cultural icon in Japan. Understanding how it made such a lasting impact gives us a window onto Japanese social history and fandom.

Sunday, April 12 2009

Paul Ben-Victor

By PopMatters Staff

We learn at PopMatters 20 Questions that in addition to his acting skills, Ben-Victor has a knack for doing wild makeup designs and body art.

Monday, February 9 2009

Pulling Names from a Hat: The 2009 Grammy Awards

By Evan Sawdey

If the Grammy Awards are really supposed to be "Music's Biggest Night", then what does the 2009 ceremony say about the state of sonic entertainment right now?

Monday, February 2 2009

The New Golden Age of British TV Comedy

By Evan Sawdey

Every once in awhile, Britain rules over America. The Office, Spaced, Coupling and other British shows are gradually narrowing the Atlantic-sized gap between the United States and England.

Sunday, February 1 2009

Max & Jason

By PopMatters Staff

Al 'Gore’s Boys’ and Current TV producers and hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva chat with PopMatters 20 Questions about enthusiasm-inducing people and things.

Friday, January 16 2009

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

By PopMatters Staff

PopMatters concludes our week-long special highlighting the best TV, film and DVD of the past year with the 30 Best Films of 2008 and Best Complexities in 2008.

Friday, October 3 2008

The Olbermann Effect

By Susan Burris

Keith Olbermann has transformed news into entertainment. Countdown viewers no longer expect the facts; they expect to laugh and to think. Thank goodness.

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