Wrapped in Plastic: On Courtenay Stallings’s “Laura’s Ghost”
Sophia Stewart reviews “Laura’s Ghost,” a feminist-ethnographic collection revisiting the gender politics of “Twin Peaks,” the series and the film....
The Long Cable Box-Step Orgy: Rewatching "The Deuce"
Matthew Tchepikova-Treon returns to the under-appreciated institutional melodrama of David Simon's The Deuce one year later....
The Disciplined Work of Being a Human Being: A Conversation with Actress and Artist Sheila Vand
Erik Morse interviews Iranian American actress and performance artist Sheila Vand....
Rethinking Rape and Laughter: Michaela Coel's "I May Destroy You"
Rebecca Wanzo describes how Michaela Coel's HBO series about trauma and recovery uses laughter to defiantly resist despair....
The One With(out) the Gender Binary: Rewatching “Friends” and “Coupling”
Sam Moore watches reruns of Friends and Couplings only to find two shows defined by their own rigid definitions of gender and sexuality....
Dilettantes and Connoisseurs: The Public Intellectual in the United States
On the evolution of the figure of the public intellectual in the internet age....
Absent Center: Netflix's "Dark" and Time Travel as White Privilege
Namrata Verghese asks why everybody on Netflix's mind-bending time travel series Dark is white and why whiteness structures even its alternate worlds....
Basketball Was Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience
TV scholar Michael Z. Newman reflects on the similarity between the NBA bubble at Disney World and the classic form of the sitcom....
The Jordan Rules, Recycled
ESPN’s documentary “The Last Dance” is an “untold story” we’ve all heard a million times....
Like Proper Sexual: On Too Hot to Handle
Philippa Snow binges the reckless hearts and alarmist boomerisms of Netflix's reality dating sensation Too Hot To Handle....
Brokering Suitability: On "Indian Matchmaking"
Rijuta Mehta considers the reality TV tropes, documentary pretense, and pervasive purity politics of Netflix's newest dating show....
Our Story Is the American Story: A Conversation with Renee Tajima-Peña and Geeta Gandbhir
The producers of “Asian Americans” reflect on the making of their groundbreaking documentary series....
