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My wife and I don’t watch much television. We are young and cable-less. In fact, the only reason that we watch TV at all is because of a great two-part Christmas gift from my mom: Apple TV and her Netflix password. And although my wife and I differ in our taste in television, the [...]
Mad Men Recap 6.10: “Be slick, be glib, be you!” Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce Cutler Gleason and Chaough have an identity crisis. “SCDPCGC” is the unofficial seven letter branding, but few people know it, and fewer still get it precisely right. Near the beginning of “A Tale of Two Cities,” the partners of the newly [...]
“At the end of the day, House Hunters reminds me that virtually all of our ‘must-haves’ are really not needs but desires.”
by guest writer Adam Marshall It seems that fictional pastors tend to be cut from one of two molds—often, they are depicted as either narrow-minded zealots (i.e. The Poisonwood Bible’s Nathan Price or Bioshock: Infinite’s Nathan Hale Comstock) or as paragons of unattainable heavenly virtue (i.e. Chaucer’s Parson). While a few writers such as Marilynne [...]
The problem is not that these critics are reading something where there is nothing; there is never “nothing”.
“The scandal of Scandal is that it could do so much more to spark discussions about racial differences, but instead it chooses to color the show in shades that all blur everyone together to look the same.”
“As a fictional television series that generates its own history, Revolution may serve, in a sense, as a kind of narrative historiography.”
Mad Men Recap 6.8: What Holds People Together This season of Mad Men’s eighth episode, titled “The Crash,” begins with Ken Cosgrove crashing a joy ride full of gallivanting middle-aged executives, but, emphasized by a jump-cut to a tall silhouetted figure smoking a cigarette outside of his former mistress’s apartment, it’s clearly Don Draper who [...]
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“But that scene with Pam and Jim reminded me of something more, too, of something that holds my marriage together in spite of my shortcomings.”
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