The Caillou Conceit: Narrative Overexposure and Hyperreal Pacing in Netflix’s...
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Every joke has to start with a premise, or the idea that creates a need for laughter. The need is ...The post Poking at Power: Can Comedy be a Political Weapon? appeared first on BLARB.
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There’s a scene in the finale of True Detective’s third season that displays its protagonist Wayne Hayes (Mahershala Ali) rocking ...The post Once Was Lost: The False Promise of True Detective appeared...
View ArticleWhose Blood, Whose Treasure?
A new CBS drama premiering May 21, Blood & Treasure, promises “rollicking action” as we watch “a brilliant antiquities expert and a cunning ...The post Whose Blood, Whose Treasure? appeared first...
View Article“She Doesn’t Need Us Anymore”: A Look at Fleabag Season 2
Writing about the second season of Fleabag feels, in a way, like an act of desecration. So much of the ...The post “She Doesn’t Need Us Anymore”: A Look at Fleabag Season 2 appeared first on BLARB.
View ArticleLove Islands
I started watching Love Island, a British reality television show about beautiful singles betraying each other on a compound in ...The post Love Islands appeared first on BLARB.
View ArticleThe Voyage Home: Star Trek: Picard and Millennial Nostalgia
About halfway through “Remembrance,” the first episode of the new Star Trek: Picard series, Jean-Luc Picard visits an archive. Inside ...The post The Voyage Home: Star Trek: Picard and Millennial...
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When I wrote about the premiere of Star Trek: Picard in January, I tossed in an aside to our “grim ...The post On Death and the Finale of Star Trek: Picard appeared first on BLARB.
View ArticleThe Long Goodbye: How Murder on Middle Beach Reimagines True Crime
Here are the facts: on March 3rd, 2010, Barbara Beach Hamburg was beaten to death in front of her modest ...The post The Long Goodbye: How Murder on Middle Beach Reimagines True Crime appeared first on...
View ArticleWhat About Lila? English Grad School and Emotional Labor in Netflix’s The Chair
In a brief but revealing moment in Netflix’s new hit series The Chair, the disheveled literature professor Bill Dobson (portrayed ...The post What About Lila? English Grad School and Emotional Labor in...
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