By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham I doubt anyone goes to Hong Kong specifically to explore the Ping Shan or Lung Yeuk …
October 2013
You Won’t Read This Review of “Masters of Sex”: The Problem of Episodic Criticism
I WANT TO TALK with you about Masters of Sex. I want to talk about Michael Sheen’s acting, Lizzy Caplan’s …
Sex and the Slightly Unreliable Narrator
Dear TV, I’D HOPED Masters of Sex would resist following Mad Men down the sepia brick road to the land of overburdened …
One Season Wonders: “Outcasts” and “Terra Nova”
by Jonathan Alexander ONE OF THE PLEASURES of TV these days is the Netflixable delight of watching entire seasons in …
Save The World Stage
By Scott Doyle “Save The World Stage” Campaign Launched Community Rally Set for October 26 Jazz musicians like Branford Marsalis, …
Ambivalent about Horror
Dear Television, TO LOVE HORROR is to love genre. As Annie’s piece on abjection and Phil’s on “Hellmouth” (new meme, …
Jogging the Memory
By James Carter With Fall Break relieving me from teaching for a few days, I recently spent a week in …
Greetings from Hellmouth, U.S.A.
Dear Television, THE THING ABOUT American Horror Story is not just its insanity or its abjection or its politics or its …
The Exquisite Repulsion of “American Horror Story”: An Essay on Abjection
Dear Television, An African-American albino. A 200 year old woman who looks 45. A vagina that destroys all that enters …
Men Behaving Badly: White Masculinity in Science Fiction Television
TELEVISION IS A PLACE where we work through our cultural anxieties and project idealized versions of our selves. Even if …