Notes from Underground: WGN’s Black-Cast Quality TV Experiment
How did “Underground” become a test case for black-cast quality TV? And how does its failure show us the way the industry associates blackness with risk?...
Fury, Kitten, Dude: On Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Lili Loofbourow and Irene Yoon check in with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend at the off-kilter end of its third season!...
Framing Our World: On Vanda Krefft’s “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox”
Dan Friedman unreels “The Man Who Made the Movies,” a biography of William Fox by Vanda Krefft....
Dwelling in the Upside Down: On “Stranger Things 2”
"Stranger Things 2" feels less like a tribute to old films, less nostalgic, and more a cautionary historical fiction focused sharply on the near future....
No Follow-Through
“Star Trek” seems paralyzed by the idea of doing the one thing the fans of the series actually want....
Giant Mezuzahs: The Yiddishkeit of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
Deborah Krieger on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," in which Jewish characters and their community are the default....
The Dead Do Not Improve: “The Good Place”’s Divine Justice System
What might NBC's sitcom "The Good Place" tell us about early Christian theology and the era of mass incarceration?...
“For 25 Years I’ve Kept Something from You”: “Twin Peaks” in Print
A survey of books on, in, and about “Twin Peaks.”...
“The Problem with Apu” and the FCC
Meenasarani Linde Murugan on how the broadening of South Asian media representations could be threatened by the FCC's decision on net neutrality....
Other People’s Children: “Younger,” “Cucumber,” and an Open Love Letter to Nico Tortorella
Jonathan Alexander on the frisson and fantasy of love and sex across the generational divide in the TV shows “Younger” and “Cucumber.”...
“Star Trek: Discovery” and the Dream of Future Fuels
Karen Pinkus contemplates “Star Trek: Discovery” and the future of fuel....
David Lynch’s Late Style
Jonathan Foltz on “Twin Peaks: The Return.”...
