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Comedy is a cruelly subjective art form, and not much of it survives outside of its time frame.
07 May 2018
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Morgan Neville on the "Radical Kindness" of 'Mr. Rogers Neighborhood'
Eschewing nostalgia, filmmaker Neville of Won't You Be My Neighbor is far more interested in Fred Rogers' ideas than his biography.
20 Apr 2018
Outrageousness Takes a Holiday in 'Archer S8: Dreamland'
This may be a clever homage to classic hard-boiled detective fiction from the '40s, but Archer in Dreamland is not the wild man we've come to love/hate.
03 Apr 2018
Puritans with Machine Guns in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
The first season of this icily horrific series is a crash course in the possibilities of a uniquely American 'It Could Happen Here' patriarchal Christian fascism.
26 Mar 2018
Going Back to Things Unknown with 'The Outer Limits'
The Outer Limits is a mix of science fiction, nightmares, and surrealism -- the very things that make life worth living even though they scare the bejeebers out of us.
20 Mar 2018
True/False Film Fest: 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?'
Director Morgan Neville cuts straight to the heart of matters with this moving biography of Fred Rogers.
07 Mar 2018
True/False Film Fest: 'Our New President'
The next film from Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer director Maxim Pozdorovkin treats us to Russian propaganda about the United States.
02 Mar 2018
'The Prisoner' Has Superbly Outlived Its Original Context
Rogue filmmaker Alex Cox ties The Prisoner's island mentality and palpable "cupcake fascism" to current political events, including Brexit, in I Am Not a Number.
02 Feb 2018
'Curb Your Enthusiasm' S9 Couldn't Find Its Rhythm
Curb Your Enthusiasm's well-established characters are reacting to their former selves, rather than inhabiting or reinventing themselves. Thus, it loses the rhythms and inflections that once made the show so consistently, diabolically funny.
12 Dec 2017
The Light and Dark​ Music in ' Mr. Robot': A Conversation with Mac Quayle
Emmy-winning Composer Mac Quayle is one of the best in the TV soundtrack business. His mastery of synthesized instrumentation is perfectly suited to Mr. Robot's theme.
16 Nov 2017
The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever: Part 5, Joy Division to Gang of Four
This week we are celebrating the best post-punk albums of all-time and today we conclude with part five featuring Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads and more.
26 Jan 2017
'Television: A Biography' Showcases How TV Is an Insanely Mutative Beast
David Thomson's lucrative and exhaustive biography of television reminds us that the continuously morphing state of TV matches our increasingly digitally-enhanced society.
30 Oct 2016
The Fourth Season of 'Inside Amy Schumer' Turns Inward at a Cost
As Trainwreck and Inside Amy Schumer's third season demonstrated, Schumer’s comedy's most potent when it explores the stakes of what it skewers.
Katie Dyson
Television
01 Jun 2016
Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place
With its frank discussions of poverty, sexuality, class and ethnic discrimination, and small-town hypocrisy, Peyton Place was more than a tawdry potboiler.
Ardis Cameron
Books
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Every Generation Gets the 'Daredevil' It Deserves
Marvel's Daredevil is a reminder that our pop culture, even that which is rooted in the pulp tradition, can be vivid, vital, and powerful.
17 Apr 2015
Can Television Be a Solution to Hollywood's Diversity Problem?
We are living in the second Golden Age of Television, and not just because the writing is so good: TV is where we can tune in for real diversity.
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