Television
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Over the Garden Wall: A Multi-Crowd Pleaser For the Future of Children’s Animation
By Jo Yee As an enthusiast of all types of animation in combination with the excessive amount of binge-watching that has commenced in my life due to the regional stay-at-home… Read more.
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Bridgerton: Binge-worthy, Beautiful, … (race) Baiting?
By Gabriela Poole Like many others, obsessed with finding new media to temporarily encapsulate myself with during this time, I gave in to excessive hype and watched the new Shonda… Read more.
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Fleabag: Intimacy through the Fourth Wall
Before the critically acclaimed two-season HBO television show Fleabag graced cable it was an off-Broadway, one-woman play written by and starring, Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The televisual transmutation follows a late-twenties Londoner… Read more.
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Cartoon Critters and the (Mis)representation of Race
From Looney Tunes to Spongebob, anthropomorphized animals have long been a staple in children’s cartoons. But while these non-human protagonists are certainly fun and entertaining, there are weighty implications behind… Read more.
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The Uncomfy Nature of Rewatch: Or, How I Learned to Hate Xander
Ah, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Mercury’s in retrograde and everyone suggests rewatching some of your favorite old shows and movies, so I’ve been rewatching Buffy. Influential, quality television, right? There’s… Read more.
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The Great British Baking Show: A Wholesome Contrast to American Cooking Competitions
American cooking competitions all follow the same sort of formula. There is an intense battle where chefs need to make a complex dish in an a short amount of time… Read more.
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How Bandersnatch Snatched Media’s Wig
Since its initial release on Netflix in December of 2018, Bandersnatch has garnered more than its share of attention, criticism, and overall buzz. The first large scale, multiple ending film… Read more.
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Queer Visibility in One Day at A Time
One Day at a Time was a popular sitcom in the mid-70s about an Indianapolis family held together by a divorced mom and her two kids going through life, as… Read more.
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3 Shows that are Binge Watch Worthy
Finishing a series on Netflix (or on any streaming service for that matter) is always sad. When you finish a show, it’s like, what’s next? What do I do with… Read more.
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How Bojack Horseman Breaks Form
Netflix’s Bojack Horseman has had tremendous success experimenting with new methods of storytelling. Specifically, two episodes come to mind. The show breaks traditional narrative form often, but “Fish out of… Read more.
