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(Un)smart Buddies: “Booksmart” Is an Adorably Gawky Entry into the High School Comedy Canon
If “Booksmart” endeavors to make an argument for what youthfulness can be, and for all the messy hope entangled in it, then it must unearth the muck, too.
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Coexisting Desires: Nola Darling Finally Gets Real with Herself in “She’s Gotta Have It”
Nola Darling understands that trauma porn is a tactic often used to beef up the work and lives of Black women for clicks and scholarships, but it is also demeaning.
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Boss Butch: “Gentleman Jack’s” Warm, Irreverent Take on 19th-Century Lesbian Desire
Gentleman Jack is unquestionably fun, but it also doesn’t set out to be an unconditional empowerment fantasy.
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Unbroken and Unbowed: Revisiting Disability Representation on “Game of Thrones”
Tyrion Lannister is a survivor in a deeply ableist family who loathes him for being a “dwarf.”
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Fire and Bleh: In the “Game of Thrones” Finale, We All Lost
We’ll never forget the show or its finale—but we’ll also never forget to look deeper at what it says about gender, representation, and episodic television as a whole.
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Popaganda: Fear
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself? Give me a break. What about being afraid of murder? Indefinite detention? Stand-up comedy? On this episode, we explore some of the many things that make us afraid. The show begins with a story from filmmaker Assia Boundaoui, who grew up in a mostly... Read more »
Beyond the Back Alley: “Call the Midwife” and TV’s Stubborn Abortion Binary
To date, TV has told only a small, self-evident part of illegal abortion’s history.
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Truth Hurts: Season 2 of “Fleabag” Is All about Fessing Up
Perhaps the masterstroke of season is in making Fleabag’s love interest someone who’s literally in the business of confession.
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Backtalk: Meh of Thrones
This week, Dahlia and Amy get into their disappointment over the final season of Game of Thrones. The epic series has given audiences a big cultural moment in the world of dragons, the fight for power, and a slew of women characters to love and hate—but is it doing justice to the story?... Read more »
False Alarm: The Tale of JT Leroy Is a Hoax with Layers
Like its subject, JT LeRoy is about so much more than it seems.
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