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Our Love Affair With Streaming is About to get Mighty Complicated

As it stands, on the cusp of the approaching new decade, Netflix and the like are no different from the very structural constraints it sought to liberate us from.

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Rock and a Hard Place: the Mental Illness/Paranormal Disturbance Parallel in The Haunting of Hill House

Is this one long metaphor for madness, or is The Haunting of Hill House just a very nuanced ghost story?

The Imprecise Truth and The Flawed Memory: Martyrdom and Abuse in The Tale (2018) and National Treasure (2016)

Both explore the line between truth and fiction: what differentiates beliefs from facts, and where does memory fit in all that?

TVA. MartineJuly 24, 2018film, television, cinema, abuse, sexual assault, sexual abuse, hbo, the tale, national treasure, channel 4, british, memory, prosecution, trial, memoir, documentary, celebrity, fame, dysfunction

Four Levels of Doom and Gloom in Black Mirror

It’s easy to think that Black Mirror operates on technophobia, but it has always been about people, and about how we misuse what we create.

What My Mad Fat Diary Gets Right About Mental Illness, Romance and Female Friendships

Too few shows illustrate that mental illness is not something that friendship erases, that love diminishes, that success eradicates.

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In Praise of Martha Jones, the Oft Unappreciated Doctor Who Companion

Martha’s role doomed her from the start: she was the rebound, for the Doctor and for the fans — and rebounds, obviously, never look good.

TVA. MartineJune 11, 2018doctor who, fandom, television, bbc, british, martha jones, david tennant, appreciation, underrated, freema agyeman, russel t davies, showrunners, fans, popularity, pop culture, companions Comments

"Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child", or the Underrated HBO Show That Tried to Tackle Diversity

Television shows have an invaluable opportunity, namely that of shaping the way children view the world, pushing them to question that which adults expect them not to.

Nonchalant and All-Consuming: Revisiting Skins, Over a Decade Later

In many ways, Skins was the teenager it was trying to portray: arrogant, defiant, so hell-bent on the shock factor that we were often left with a show where wild things happened, impressing no one.

The Rebel Who Almost Was: How Lane Kim was Ultimately Shortchanged

Lane never gets the kind of actualization Rory benefits from in liberal heaps: while the latter was often rewarded for being a terrible person and doing tiresome things, I kept waiting for Lane to ‘get hers’.

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