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Media, Review, TV ShowsReview: Dead to Me, Season 2 Goes Deep, More Trauma than Comedy
The first season of the Netflix traumedy Dead to Me felt like lightning in a bottle. There was no way…
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Review#blackAF: Challenging the White Gaze or Just Navel-Gazing?
This weekend Netflix dropped the eight-episode first season of Kenya Barris’ new series #blackAF. At first blush, it might feel…familiar.…
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Features, Guilty Pleasure Confessional, Media, TV Shows#GuiltyPleasureConfessional: The West Wing
Like many on the left, George W. Bush winning his second presidential term in 2004 against John Kerry was devastating…
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Comedy, Editorials, Features, Media, TV Shows‘High Fidelity’ Goes High Def with Zoe Kravitz
We live in a culture where original ideas seem increasingly rare in entertainment. Every other box office blockbuster is a…
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Media, Review, TV Shows, UncategorizedQueen Sugar Recap: From on the Pulse of Morning (Season 3 Finale)
Queen Sugar / Season 3, Episode 13 / OWN It’s been a long season, and in this 90-minute finale, we…
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Media, Review, TV ShowsInsecure Recap: Familiar-Like
Insecure / Season 3, Episode 2 / HBO Wowee! We kick off our second episode of this season with Issa…
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Media, Review, TV ShowsQueen Sugar Recap: The Horizon Leans Forward
Queen Sugar / Season 3, Episode 12 / OWN It’s the penultimate episode of Season 3! Everything is on fire…
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Media, Review, TV ShowsQueen Sugar Recap: Your Passages Have Been Paid
Queen Sugar / Season 3, Episode 11 / OWN I noticed something about this episode–where is everyone? No Hollywood, no…
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Media, Review, TV ShowsQueen Sugar Recap: Here Beside the River
Season 3 / Episode 10, Here Beside the River / OWN Bad As It’s Ever Been This episode begins with…
