THE TERM TVIII has been used in television studies to describe the state of television in the 21st century. This …
Superheroes and TV IV: Possibilities and pitfalls of contemporary television
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Steampunk Dracula
SCIENCE FICTION television this season continues to work through the anxieties of our contemporary moment in coded ways, from Revolution’s …
There Will Be Peplum: On the Television Uniform
Dear Television, WHEN I WAS YOUNG, my favorite show was Star Trek: The Next Generation. There are many reasons for this …
The Fastest Show on TV: On The Good Wife
A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, in this very column, I made an off-hand claim that The Good Wife is “the best …
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 …
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, …
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 …
