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‘Sons of Anarchy’ Open Thread: Slim Offers
This post discusses plot points from the November 6 episode of Sons of Anarchy. Sons of Anarchy is a show that’s always at its best when it puts aside complex arms deals, and the Galindo Cartel, and...
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‘Downton Abbey’ Open Thread: All Things Are Permitted
This post discusses plot points from the first episode of the third season of Downton Abbey. If you’ve seen subsequent episodes aired in the UK and want to discuss events that happen in them, please...
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Why The Bloody, Sex-Soaked ‘Spartacus’ Is The Most Progressive Show You’re...
(L to R) Rebel soldier Mira, lovers Agron and Nasir, Spartacus, Oenomaus, and Crixus. Spartacus, a retelling of the famous slave rebellion currently airing on Starz, somehow never seems to get...
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How Some States Are Rolling Back The Clock To A Time Before Roe v. Wade
Before the 1973 Supreme Court decision that guaranteed women’s right to legal abortion services — a decision that was handed down 40 years ago this Tuesday — reproductive freedom was sharply divided...
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‘Downton Abbey’ Open Thread: Ladies and Newspapers
This post discusses plot points through the January 27 episode of Downton Abbey. I was on the road when the January 20 episode of Downtown Abbey aired, so this week, I’ll consider both hours of...
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Five Things The Season Finale of ‘Justified’ Tells Us About What Television...
This post discusses plot points from the fourth season of Justified. I’ve been frustrated at times by the intrusion of Detroit into the hollers of Harlan during the last two seasons of Justified. But...
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Virginia Lawmakers Agree: Banning Insurers From Covering Abortion Hurts...
This week, Virginia became the 21st state to restrict coverage for abortion services in the health insurance marketplaces set up under Obamacare. Over the past several years, that’s become an...
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Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 is one of my favorite science fiction movies of the last five years, and his follow-up, Elysium, is probably the movie I’m most looking forward to this year, and I’m glad...
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‘Veronica Mars’ Television Club: High School Social Mobility And The ‘Mean...
This post discusses the ninth and tenth episodes of the first season of Veronica Mars. One of the things I’m coming to really enjoy about Veronica Mars is the way, compared to other television shows...
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‘Veronica Mars’ Television Club: Noise Levels and Fake IDs
This post discusses the eleventh and twelfth episodes of the first season of Veronica Mars. Halfway through this first season of Veronica Mars, I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t necessarily...
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Arianna Huffington’s Third Metric Conference, And What It Means To Have It All
You’ve got your life in pretty good shape if the biggest wrinkle in a given week, as was the case for Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington on Thursday, is that you’ve got the clear the furniture...
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‘Veronica Mars’ Television Club: Everybody Hurts
This post discusses the final two episodes of the first season of Veronica Mars. The last two episodes of the first season of Veronica Mars center on the two central mysteries that have threaded their...
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‘Veronica Mars’ Television Club: Homecoming Queen
This post discusses the first two episodes of the second season of Veronica Mars. “Normal job, just like other people my age. I just wish fewer of my classmates showed up here,” Veronica tells us when...
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‘Ray Donovan’ Creator Ann Biderman On Los Angeles And Boston, Sexual Abuse,...
Credit: ShowtimeOn June 30, Showtime debuts Ray Donovan, a new drama about a Los Angeles fixer (Lieve Schrieber), who’s struggling to handle the demands of his high-profile and trouble-prone clients,...
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From ‘Parks and Recreation’ To ‘The Good Wife,’ Sex, Money, Power, And What...
Over at Grantland, Kate Carraway has an interesting look at how shows about women handle questions of money and ambition, both by making concrete what it takes to buy Carrie Bradshaw’s shoes or pay...
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‘Snowpiercer’ On Our Cold, Class-Stratified Future
Credit: Beyond Hollywood I like me some bottle episodes, postapocalypses, innovative action, and Tilda Swinton, so it makes all the sense in the world that I’d be excited for Bong Joon-ho’s...
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The Danger Of A New Electricity Divide — And How To Solve It
(Credit: AP/Reed Saxon)How we get and use electricity is undergoing a massive jump forward in technological sophistication — just like telephone communications, the internet, wireless and broadband...
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The Class Politics Of ‘Sex And The City,’ And Why The Show Became A Punching Bag
Last week, the New Yorker’s television critic Emily Nussbaum wrote a terrific piece that explains how Sex and the City, a comedy that began running before The Sopranos premiered and became the model...
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What Would The Next ‘Roseanne’ Look Like?
Credit: Women and Hollywood In my column this week for Women and Hollywood, I did some thinking about Roseanne, which has, terrifyingly, its twenty-fifth anniversary this fall. I think there are two...
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Startup CEO Wishes Homeless ‘Degenerates’ Would Stop Ruining ‘The Civilized...
CREDIT: Facebook Silicon Valley rising star Greg Gopman took to Facebook on Tuesday to rail against poor and homeless residents of San Francisco, inflaming already simmering tensions between the...
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