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People Online Are Getting Meaner, Which is Just Making it Easier For Us to Justify Hating One Another Last week, when the Alamo Drafthouse theatre in Austin, Texas announced a Women Only screening of the upcoming Wonder Woman, Twitter became a microcosm of where we currently are as a human race. A lot of men …
The Long-Running Animated Spy Comedy Takes a Swing at Condensed Storytelling, With Mixed Results Stagnation, in television, is always the final stage before death. This is especially true of sitcoms, and a good reason why few manage to maintain a consistent quality after three or four seasons. Once you’ve explored all the avenues available …
Searching For Life’s Sweetness in The Secret Life Of Bees Imagine living with the reality that, as a baby, you accidentally shot and killed your own mother! A little on the improbable side, but not at all impossible. And hey, this is America, where guns are practically used as dummies. Now, as a fourteen-year-old …
The Second Season of Aziz Ansari’s Early-Middle Age Lovechild is As Warm and Humanistic As Ever One or two word signifiers don’t work for TV anymore. Usually. Yeah, Game of Thrones is a “medieval fantasy”, Fargo is a “crime saga” and The Young Pope is a “mindfuck”, but those are still fairly shallow descriptions of much deeper shows. And …
She’s A Feminist Without Even Realising It In Whale Rider From out of the aquamarine comes the graceful body of a whale. In the quiet capsule of water, a sliding melody begins to echo the song of a whale. Raising the hairs on your arms, this haunting music wafts forwards, and a soft voice begins …
Tiny Furniture in Huge Houses Before there was Girls, there was Tiny Furniture, the micro-budget feature film that launched Lena Dunham’s career. Think Hannah, think Jessa, and think extreme relevance in the form of ‘what-the-hell-am-I-doing-with-my-life’ themes.
One of the Most Talked About New Shows of the Year Benefits Greatly From the Streaming Service Behind It I’m not even gonna deny it: I haven’t watched this show. I’ve caught a few stray episodes – or, more accurately, a cluster of scenes from a few episodes – here and there, but I …
Planting a Family Is Easy, Growing One Is Hard, But The Kids Are All Right “Why’d you donate sperm?” “Well, it’s a lot more fun than donating blood.” True indeed, but far messier…