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‘The Mandalorian’ season two: Not cancel but carnivore culture
February 18, 2021One of the surprise hits of the contemporary streaming era is The Mandalorian, the first original series on Disney+. A surprise not because it was a hit—any Star Wars spinoff is guaranteed to have a wide...
Read moreTwo Women: ‘The Assistant’ and ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’
December 23, 2020Seventeen-year-old Autumn is pregnant. When she goes to a crisis pregnancy center, she is shown an anti-abortion video and steered toward having the baby. With no resources and desperate to keep her plight secret from her...
Read moreThe year of living digitally: Top 30 global TV series of 2020
December 23, 2020The biggest story in television this year was the rise of the streaming services, with Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV+, and NBCUniversal’s Peacock joining what was already the crowded field of Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. This...
Read moreA pandemic ‘Nurse T’ tells her COVID-19 story in new published diary
December 22, 2020Reading A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary, particularly against prevalent media representations of healthcare workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, brought to mind for me the opening words of the sketch by the U.S. radical writer Jesús Colón,...
Read moreTV’s forgotten: Indigenous and working-class series
December 21, 2020Few series on television focus either on the Earth’s first inhabitants, the Indigenous, now mostly quartered in slums across the world, or on workers, their lives, and daily concerns. We’ll be discussing the series Mystery Road,...
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