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Mishaps and Milestones: “Insecure” Moves from Chaos to Clarity
Black women’s friendships are a saving grace but also a mirror that shows us our own imperfections.
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The Final Rose: A Black Bachelor Can’t Fix a Franchise’s Race Problem
The Bachelor franchise survives in the streaming age because it coddles white fragility.
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Ladies on Fire: “Betty” Is More Than a Skateboarding Show about Women
Betty isn’t a show made to shatter glass ceilings so much as it is to empower those pushing against it.
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Is “Twenties” Really a Win for Black Queer Representation?
The show ultimately eschews multidimensional queer dynamics and rests solely on its queer optics.
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A Wrinkle in White Supremacy: Even Time Travel Can’t Stop Police Brutality
Time lines merge into an inescapable eternity; there’s no reprieve from injustice.
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(Un)happily Ever After?: TV Treats Arranged Marriage as an Archaic Indian Custom. It’s Not.
These stereotypical depictions ignore, to their detriment, the fact that many arranged marriages are consensual.
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Jeannie’s American Dream: The Assimilation of a TV Icon
I Dream of Jeannie is the only U.S. television show that has revolved around a female Arab character, which is quite sad given that she’s a make-believe caricature.
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“Too Hot to Handle” Is a Conservative Nightmare of a Reality Dating Show
The premise is simple: for the duration of the season, no one can have sex.
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We Were Rooting for You: On the Changing Legacy of Tyra Banks
Banks has been around since the ’90s, but it has taken this long to reckon with her true legacy.
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We’ve Entered Peak Dystopian Television, and Chris Harrison is Our King
Dystopian television is here, and it’s coming for our love lives—whether through song, or otherwise.
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