TV
13 Shows and Movies We Loved in 2021
From the unexpected buzz around Squid Game’s horrifying meditation on the problem of debt in South Korea to the catharsis of Mayday’s feminist revenge.
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9 Shows and Movies We Hated in 2021
These are some of the biggest disappointments we saw this year.
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“Harlem” Could’ve Offered Escapism. Instead, its Black Characters Are Woefully Unoriginal
The new show makes confusing choices that deliver woefully unoriginal Black characters.
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White Christmas: Can Holiday Movies Add Diversity and Ignore Politics?
The challenge of diversifying holiday movies is about more than representation.
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Double Down: "King Richard" Is an Ode to the Power of Believing in Black Girls
“King Richard” succeeds in drawing us to root for the Williams family to beat the odds against them—the specter of both genteel and bloody racism, the gang violence that threatens their neighborhood.
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Rare Delight: : "Sort Of" Is a Refreshingly Complex Take on Nonbinary Life
What makes Sort Of work is its exploration of a nesting series of communities; one is diverse and queer, featuring people of a variety of genders and sexualities who move fluidly through each other’s lives in a way that highlights the rapid diversification of the LGBQT community... Read more »
Crimeless Victims: What Is the True-Crime Takeover Doing to Us?
The emergence of “highbrow” true crime allows listeners to recast spectatorship as objective critical analysis.
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Feminist-ish : The Straw Feminist Trope
Welcome to Feminist-ish: a video series deconstructing the feminist-adjacent tropes that we love to hate.
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A Love Scorned: What “You” Season 3 Says about Fans’ Obsession with Male Killers
Despite viewers’ desire to “fix” the fictional male serial killer, Love Quinn’s murderous heel turn didn’t get the same reaction from fans after Season 2.
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Wynonna Earp Reimagines the Old, Male West
Instead of celebrating hypermasculine cowboys who terrorize Indigenous peo-ple and abuse women, Emily Andras’s dramedy made a complicated woman the unlikely hero tasked with saving her town.
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