Rebecca Linde writes against the nostalgia-driven impulse toward television reboots.
Program Overload: Against the TV Reboot
Arts & Culture > Television
Consider the Cop Show: On Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Apoorva Tadepalli reconsiders her relationship with "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
Humbert, or the Confession of a White Spinster Female: A Millennial’s Reading of Lolita
Rebecca Schultz looks back on Nabokov's "Lolita," her teenage obsession with "The O.C.," and adolescent fantasy.
Trump’s America is the German Upside Down
An American living in Stuttgart points out the uncanny similarities between the Upside Down of "Stranger Things" and Germany's relationship with the US.
Anglophilia in America
Rachel Kraus discovers her own Anglophilia through television shows like 'The Great British Baking Show."
“You Were Always My Hero”: Magical Realism in Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters
Niv M. Sultan reviews Guillermo del Toro's animated show "Trollhunters."
The Bold Type and the Rise of the Female Mentor
Natalia Winkelman reviews "The Bold Type," which was recently renewed for its second season on Freeform.
A Woman Looking at Chris Kraus Looking at Men: I Love Dick and Kraus’s Precarious Female Gaze
Callie Hitchcock considers the female gaze in "I Love Dick," both the television series and the novel by Chris Kraus.
Strange Things, Stranger Danger: Domestic Fantasy in Stranger Things 2
Niv M. Sultan argues that the greatest fantasy in "Stranger Things 2" is its depiction of family life.
Yuletide Terror: Talking to Caelum Vatnsdal, Alexandra West, and Derek Johnston
Ian MacAllister McDonald interviews three of the contributors to "Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television."
