Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe is a television, film, and culture critic. His criticism appears in Morning Star, People’s World; Culture Matters, Crime Fiction Lover, and is on the Pacifica Network in the U.S., and on Breaking Glass on Art District Radio in Paris. His books include Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure and his novel Left of Eden about the Hollywood Blacklist. Broe taught in the Master’s Program in Film and Television Studies at the Sorbonne, Paris.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe

Culture

‘Vida’ on Starz: Fighting gentrification ‘but with a little sex’
September 15, 2020 By Dennis Broe
All over the news today is what amounts to articles about a new kind of white flight, but this time which is also a COVID flight from cities to rural areas and the suburbs.
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Culture

‘Fearless’ and ‘Perry Mason’: How to end and not end a season
August 27, 2020 By Dennis Broe
There was a lot of fanfare recently around the wrapping up of HBO’s remake of Perry Mason, which unfortunately has a botched ending.
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Culture

‘Black Suns’ at Louvre Lens: Coal mines transformed into gift shops
August 21, 2020 By Dennis Broe
This transformation is strikingly visible in the setting in which the painting is displayed, that is, in Lens’s transformation from mining to museum economy.
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Culture

‘Green Frontier’ and ‘Wild District’: Bolivarian vs. Bolsonarian revolution
August 19, 2020 By Dennis Broe
Two series from Colombia, Green Frontier and Wild District, both Netflix originals and both done by the same production house, Dynamo, stake out the left and right of Colombian politics.
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Culture

Comcast and NBC Universal’s Peacock: A strange bird
July 31, 2020 By Dennis Broe
These “hyperconglomerates,” media giants combining telecommunications, satellite systems, and digital delivery and transmissions, are often reactionary in nature.
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Culture

They stream movies, don’t they? ‘City of Tiny Lights’ and ‘Hamilton’
July 14, 2020 By Dennis Broe
For 4th of July weekend, Disney+ served up an exquisitely well-filmed but troubling version of the mega New York theater hit Hamilton about the country’s founding fathers.
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Culture

Perry Mason, then and now
July 7, 2020 By Dennis Broe
Matthew Rhys from The Americans is pitch perfect in the role of the talented but befuddled and mixed-up Mason.
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Culture

‘Space Force’: What could have been ‘Dr. Strangelove’ is instead ‘McHale’s Navy’
June 30, 2020 By Dennis Broe
Netflix’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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