• Hong Kong, Beyond the Neon Lights

    By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham I doubt anyone goes to Hong Kong specifically to explore the Ping Shan or Lung Yeuk …

    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 …