Netflix
‘Space Force’: What could have been ‘Dr. Strangelove’ is instead ‘McHale’s Navy’
June 30, 2020Netflix’s Space Force is tepid, often unfunny, not skewering or lambasting but often romanticizing of what the U.S. is doing in space.
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Serial TV and indignities of class: ‘Snowpiercer,’ ‘Normal People,’ ‘Little Fires Everywhere’
June 2, 2020One of the effects of the coronavirus crisis is the accentuation of already exacerbated class differences.
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Money for nothing and gold for free on Netflix and Spanish TV
May 27, 2020Netflix has bet heavily on Spanish film and television, most likely after the European and global success of Money Heist, having set up their European headquarters in Tres Cantos, near Madrid.
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‘The Lovebirds’ review: A dynamic romantic comedy holding back its full potential
May 21, 2020The world needs more quality movies with people of color characters that spark laughter rather than tears.
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‘Ozark’ and middle-class life under pressure; Dr. Freud in ‘Vienna Blood’
April 14, 2020Both series skirt the potentially most shocking and damning aspect of the young Freud’s discoveries, the incest he found, through an examination of his female patients, lurking at the heart of the Viennese upper-middle-class bourgeois order.
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