television
‘Ozark’ and middle-class life under pressure; Dr. Freud in ‘Vienna Blood’
April 14, 2020Both series skirt the potentially most shocking and damning aspect of the young Freud’s discoveries, the incest he found, through an examination of his female patients, lurking at the heart of the Viennese upper-middle-class bourgeois order.
Read moreNetflix’s ‘How to Fix a Drug Scandal’ will anger you, and rightly so
April 10, 2020It is a documentary that will have audiences discussing the intersectionality of race, class, and gender when it comes to the criminal justice system.
Read more‘Jordskott’ and ecological horror; ‘One Day at a Time’ revived
April 7, 2020The Swedish series with the mysterious title Jordskott is an anomaly wrapped in an enigma.
Read more‘For Life’ and Black incarceration; The twin meanings of ‘Twisty’
April 6, 2020The best network series in what might be a coronavirus-abbreviated season is ABC’s For Life, a combination prison/courtroom drama about an innocent African-American inmate sentenced to life imprisonment.
Read moreTrump reverses course as forecasts show 100,000 or more deaths
March 30, 2020Reality has become so grim that even Trump can't ignore it, but he's still more concerned about TV ratings than people's lives.
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