TV
We’re living through another television “Golden Age,” from instant classics like “Breaking Bad” to traditional gems such as “Modern Family.” Hollywood in Toto watches the latest shows to help you decide what to binge watch and what to leave out of your Netflix queue.
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‘Archive 81’ Is the Genre Mashup We Crave
Our current streaming culture exploits our interests in conspiracy theories, aliens, satanic cults, religion, time-travel and alternate reality paradigms. We’ve…
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‘Janet Jackson’ – The American Dream in Close Up
Last Friday morning as I got dressed for work, Pandora played an ad on my ’80s station for Lifetime’s Janet…
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Why ‘Fargo’ Franchise Is Both Necessary and Rare
The 1996 film “Fargo” captured something too often missing from American film culture—a portrait of what flyover country actually looks…
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‘Trial of Kyle’ Convicts Media of Gaslighting 101
You can pack plenty into a 20-minute documentary. “The Trial of Kyle,” the second project from Tucker Carlson Originals following…
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The Best TV Shows of 2021 (and One You Should Avoid at All Costs)
The year 2021 will be remembered as when COVID-19 finally caught up with the Golden Age of Television. Two years…
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‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Makes a Lame Franchise Even Worse
Lois Duncan’s 1973 Young Adult novel, “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” is a whodunit. Duncan has stressed this…
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Why ‘Midnight Mass’ Didn’t Reach Its Full, Ripe Potential (Yet)
Mike Flanagan’s “Midnight Mass” on Netflix Is a missed opportunity, unless Flanagan seriously reckons with the ideas he’s stirred so…
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‘The Chair’ Won’t Take a Side on Common Sense Issues
“The Chair,” a new, six-episode Netflix series about a fictional liberal arts university, touches on all the main hot-button issues…
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‘Canceled in the USA’ Reveals How the Woke Mob Hurts Americans
The term Cancel Culture is bandied about in the press with too many caveats. Liberal news outlets preface the phrase…
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‘Woke Reformation’ Reveals Cancel Culture’s Insidious Roots
Documentarians avoid tackling Cancel Culture for understandable reasons. Say the wrong thing on screen, or have the wrong social media…
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