Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe is a television, film, and culture critic. His criticism appears in Morning Star, People’s World, Culture Matters, and Crime Fiction Lover, and is broadcast on Arts Express on the Pacifica Network in the U.S., and on Breaking Glass on Art District Radio in Paris. His books include Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure and his detective novel Left of Eden about the Hollywood Blacklist. Broe taught in the Master’s Program in Film and Television Studies at the Sorbonne, Paris.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe

Culture

Quibbling with Quibi: Considerations on the new platform of ‘quick bite’ entertainment
May 19, 2020 By Dennis Broe
Quibi, which stands for Quick Bites—bursts of entertainment, none more than 10 minutes and most less, designed for mobile phone use on the go—launched in the U.S. in early April in the midst of the quarantine.
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Culture

‘Home Before Dark’ and fading patriarchal power
May 12, 2020 By Dennis Broe
It’s the first masterful series from Apple TV+.
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Culture

ZeroZeroZero and the global drug trade; #BlackAF and Black affluence
May 7, 2020 By Dennis Broe
ZeroZeroZero, a Sky, Canal+ and Amazon series based on the Roberto (Gomorrah) Saviano book, has two things on its mind.
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Culture

‘Babylon Berlin’ and origin of German fascism; ‘Superstore’ in age of Amazon
April 27, 2020 By Dennis Broe
A very strong aspect of 'Babylon Berlin' is that it does not reduce German fascism to Hitler, but instead depicts the much broader currents of the society that support it, including the aforesaid banks and investors...
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Culture

Class and corona culture: The more things change…
April 21, 2020 By Dennis Broe
In many ways the rearrangement of life in the wake of the global impact of the coronavirus has created a brave new world.
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Culture

‘Ozark’ and middle-class life under pressure; Dr. Freud in ‘Vienna Blood’
April 14, 2020 By Dennis Broe
Both 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.
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Culture

‘Jordskott’ and ecological horror; ‘One Day at a Time’ revived
April 7, 2020 By Dennis Broe
The Swedish series with the mysterious title Jordskott is an anomaly wrapped in an enigma.
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Culture

‘For Life’ and Black incarceration; The twin meanings of ‘Twisty’
April 6, 2020 By Dennis Broe
The 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.
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