Television
What has Black Mirror been good for, beyond entertainment, if not drawing our attention to escalating social and technological perils?
Wormwood is full of secrets, some revealed, some tantalizingly unknowable.
It always takes a while for the culture to catch up with the best and brightest; what’s on the cutting edge today becomes tomorrow’s gold standard.
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive does an honorable service for the writer who embodied, as well as created, “The Imp of the Perverse.”
Netflix has spent the past two and a half years slowly setting the stage for the grittiest superhero universe yet.
Bill Maher’s once robust contrarian streak has shriveled over time.
Margaret Atwood’s novel turns out to have been far more clairvoyant than even she believed it would be.
Neal Brennan’s mix-and-match of styles manages to combine deadpan sensibility with shocking poignancy.
“Tokenism also plays into this issue. Some companies are hiring one dancer of color and they think they’ve done diversity.”
The Get Down has the tragic resonance it deserves, though Baz Luhrmann pulls back from confronting the narrative’s political implications.
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