The Political Economy of Chappelle’s Redemption Songs
Matt Seybold on what Dave Chappelle's return tells us about celebrity and corporate power....
Listening for the Caribbean on "The Crown"
Sasha Ann Panaram seeks out the easily skipped, potentially transgressive soundtrack playing at the edges of Netflix's The Crown....
Bad Form: Sexual Abuse and Ambiguity on "A Teacher"
Anna Krauthamer explores the rigid oscillation between the stark content warnings and ambiguous aesthetics of FX on Hulu's A Teacher....
Speculative Fictions: Finance, Excess, and HBO's Industry
Jorge Cotte explores the fraught speculations of HBO's series Industry alongside the recent GameStop stock trading frenzy....
Pilot Episode: On the Greatness of Kaley Cuoco
Philippa Snow writes in praise of Kaley Cuoco's stunning, elastic, fleet-footed performance in the HBO Max thriller The Flight Attendant....
This Should Be a Movie: “American Utopia,” the Concert Film, and Extending a Terrific Moment
Sara Black McCulloch considers the nature of the concert film — its scope, its liveness, and its political commitments....
Shondaland's Regency: On "Bridgerton"
Patricia A. Matthew examines the multicultural Regency era of Shonda Rhimes's new Netflix series Bridgerton....
Call Me By No Name: On "Rebecca"
Tania Modleski watches new Netflix's adaptation of Rebecca and tracks the puzzling misreadings and misleadings of its source material....
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....
