Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
-
Another European invasion: Corporate streamers and spring television preview
April 7, 2022The Dark Heart, a prizewinner at the festival that deserved its accolade, is a Swedish series about a controlling father who ravages the land and exerts his iron will over the town.
Read more -
The year in global streaming: Welcome to the Om(n)i(cron)verse
December 22, 2021The need to produce constant weekly product to match streaming competitors reached a level of frenzy this year.
Read more -
Fall global series review: From Black radicalism to British royals in space
October 4, 2021Most serious serial TV has moved online where there is no traditional “Fall TV Season,” that being a thing of the past - what did your parents used to call it? oh yeah, network TV.
Read more -
Strikes and financial tomfoolery highlight an alternative global fall TV season
September 20, 2021 -
Series, series everywhere with no audience spared: What’s new in fall streaming
September 8, 2021If not the largest, it’s certainly “the most important” television festival in the world.
Read more -
Red lamb, black falcon: Balkanization and the capitalization of Croatia
August 23, 2021Rebecca West’s monumental reckoning and sophisticated exploration of these tensions in what was then Yugoslavia in the time leading up to World War II is titled Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
Read more -
The art of the (street) deal: More honest than Trump
August 18, 2021After seeing his business taken from him, Huey concludes that in a “country founded on capitalism” where “Black people were the first commodity sold on Wall Street…as soon as black people find a way to build...
Read more -
Streaming platforms vs. Media sovereignty: Netflix and others challenge national broadcasters
August 10, 2021The power of the American streamers is forcing national films and television series to dilute their content in order to also reach a global audience.
Read more