television
‘For Life’ and Black incarceration; The twin meanings of ‘Twisty’
April 6, 2020The best network series in what might be a coronavirus-abbreviated season is ABC’s For Life, a combination prison/courtroom drama about an innocent African-American inmate sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Trump reverses course as forecasts show 100,000 or more deaths
March 30, 2020Reality has become so grim that even Trump can't ignore it, but he's still more concerned about TV ratings than people's lives.
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‘Taken Down’ and the underbelly of the Irish economic miracle
March 16, 2020The rise of Ireland to a European economic powerhouse was fueled initially by a housing boom which then crashed in the wake of the bursting of the U.S. housing bubble.
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On the global television beat: Robin Hood in the neoliberal age
March 11, 2020The last studio big-budget Robin with Russell Crowe had Robin himself as a baron who saves England and guarantees it for the other barons.
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HBO’s ‘Watchmen’: Who will guard the guards?
January 7, 2020Watchmen is an unblinking look at American right-wing populism and racism, through the eyes of lead Black characters in a science fiction comic book superstructure.
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