The Undoing: The Unusual, Unhappy “And Just Like That”Philippa Snow reviews And Just Like that..., HBO Max's sexless, zombified, tragicomic return to Sex and the City ...PHILIPPA SNOWTELEVISION
Nonlinear Delivery Options: The Times of "Station Eleven"Jorge Cotte thinks about the persistence and power of art across the various timelines the HBO Max miniseries Station Eleven....JORGE COTTETELEVISION
Why Are We Stuck Here: "Squid Game," Trauma, and RepetitionHannah Amaris Roh argues that Squid Game's simplicity masks its meta-commentary on the trauma of capitalism...HANNAH AMARIS ROHTELEVISION
Increased Visibility, Increasing Restrictions: Abortion on TVLauren Herold, PhD, and Steph Herold, MPH, ask why the increased visibility of abortion on television doesn't equal progress...LAUREN HEROLD, STEPH HEROLDTELEVISION
Single Girls Forever: How TV Envisions Friendship Between WomenKelly Coyne asks why TV series from Laverne and Shirley to Girls5Eva need to represent adult female friendship through girlhood...KELLY COYNETELEVISION
On "Evil" and Procedural FailureElizabeth Alsop considers the supernatural series Evil alongside neo-procedurals like Mindhunter, Twin Peaks: The Return, and Search Party...ELIZABETH ALSOPTELEVISION
Guiding Lights: On “Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History”Annie Berke reviews Elana Levine's "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History," on a pivotal genre and its diverse fandom ...ANNIE BERKETELEVISION
The Way We Laugh Now: On I Think You Should LeaveAdam Fales watches I Think You Should Leave and asks what's so funny about sad men telling massive lies to themselves and others?...ADAM FALESTELEVISION
Pulling The Chair OutEd Simon reviews Netflix's The Chair and considers the academic obsession with fictional portrayals of the academy....ED SIMONTELEVISION
Elizabeth Ito’s Neighborhood: “City of Ghosts” and the Rise of Netflix AnimationPhillip Maciak explores the extraordinary niche that “City of Ghosts” occupies in Netflix’s varied animated programming....PHILLIP MACIAKTELEVISION
Studio Branding in the Streaming WarsJoshua Glick considers the differentiation strategies of the streaming platforms in historical context....JOSHUA GLICKTELEVISION
The Appearance of Light: On Barry Jenkins’s “The Underground Railroad”On “The Underground Railroad,” illumination travels across media, refracting and shapeshifting....JORGE COTTETELEVISION
Blue Skies Again: Streamers and the Impossible Promise of DiversityKristen Warner explores the “illusion [of] the democratizing, diverse ideal of streaming.”...KRISTEN WARNERTELEVISION
Streaming Enthusiasm and the Industrious Family DramaMichael Szalay on what the rise of streaming platforms and their dark family dramas tell us about the US flagging empire....MICHAEL SZALAYTELEVISION
Cobra Kai, the Twilight of American Empire, and the Allure of Paramilitary ViolenceAlbert Wu and Michelle Kuo explore how Cobra Kai manages to tackle American empire, wealth disparity, and rising fascism without cynicism....ALBERT WU, MICHELLE KUOTELEVISION
Queer Girls in The Wilds: Refusing White Feminism's Settler Colonial FantasyHannah Manshel and Margaret A. Miller explore the various colonial and anti-colonial valances of Amazon's The Wilds....HANNAH MANSHEL, MARGARET A. MILLERTELEVISION
Breaking the Waves: Britney Spears and Lars von Trier in LockdownPhilippa Snow watches Hulu's Framing Britney Spears and a few other films about the destruction of women at the hands of hateful men....PHILIPPA SNOWTELEVISION
Seven Plus Seven Plus Me: The Up Series Under LockdownIn the wake of Michael Apted's passing, Claire Marie Healy revisits the director's most lasting monument: the sprawling, poetic Up series....CLAIRE MARIE HEALYTELEVISION
Anthony and Carmela Get VaccinatedPeter Coviello misses his family in New Jersey — and everything else in the pandemic year — through a full rewatch of The Sopranos....PETER COVIELLOTELEVISION
Negative Space: Close Reading Trauma PornMaya Gurantz dissects the structure and comes to terms with the compulsive appeal of streaming abuse documentary series....MAYA GURANTZTELEVISION
Negotiating the Generic Closet in the Writers' RoomIn an excerpt from The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, Alfred L. Martin Jr. explores the politics of writers' rooms....ALFRED L. MARTIN JR.TELEVISION
Disney's Disembodied Black CharactersFrom The Princess and the Frog to Soul, Hope Wabuke asks why can't Disney let Black characters play Black characters?...HOPE WABUKETELEVISION
No Witness: "Warrior" and the Histories of Anti-Asian ViolenceMin Hyoung Song considers the nineteenth-century world of Cinemax's martial arts series Warrior in light of contemporary Anti-Asian violence....MIN HYOUNG SONGTELEVISION
Nostalgia for Nostalgia: BTS on American TVIn the wake of their spectacular Grammy performance, Michelle Cho reads the ultra-mediated nostalgia of Korean pop group BTS on American TV....MICHELLE CHOTELEVISION
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