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Author: Paula Shaffer

TELEVISION 

Boy Oh FBoy

July 22, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Fboy Island, HBO Max, Nikki Glaser

HBO Max’s ‘FBoy Island’ is a golden ticket to guilty pleasures

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Networks
TELEVISION 

Broadcast Networks Flail For Relevance

May 19, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Dan Harmon, David E. Kelley, Gordon Ramsay, Gotham Knights, Grimsburg, Hilary Swank, Jeopardy!, Jon Hamm, Krapopolis, Magnum P.I., Mr. Mayor, Quantum Leap, Susan Sarandon, The Rookie

Fall slates of shows (and 17 cancellations) drop further and further behind the zeitgeist

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Abortion
TELEVISION 

American TV’s Uneasy History of Dealing With Abortion Rights

May 10, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, HBO, Jane the Virgin, Maude, Shonda Rimes, Six Feet Under

Often (but not always) shying away from the USA’s most emotional topic

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The Courtship
TELEVISION 

Courting Disaster

March 29, 2022April 4, 2022 Paula Shaffer 1 Comment Bridgerton, Jane Austen, The Bachelor, The Courtship

How ‘The Courtship’ got ‘Bridgerton,’ Jane Austen, and dating shows completely wrong

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Afterparty
TELEVISION 

What Comes After ‘The Afterparty’?

March 15, 2022April 3, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Ben Schwartz, Dave Franco, Ike Barinholtz, Ilana Glazer, The Afterparty, Tiffany Haddish, Zoe Chao

Why is the breezy millennial whodunnit getting a second season?

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Brandon Sanderson
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Brandon Sanderson Levels Up

March 3, 2022March 7, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Brandon Sanderson, Kickstarter, Wheel of Time

Fantasy author unleashes four novels for fans on an all-time successful Kickstarter

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Pam & Tommy
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Dr. Feelbad

February 17, 2022April 3, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Lily James, Nick Offerman, Pam & Tommy, Pamela Anderson, Sebastian Stan, Seth Rogen, Tommy Lee

The many missteps of ‘Pam & Tommy’

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Yellowjackets
TELEVISION 

‘Yellowjackets’: A Mystery Box For Our Time

January 26, 2022April 3, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Christina Ricci, Jasmine Savoy Brown, Juliette Lewis, Melanie Lynskey, Samantha Hanratty, Sophie Nélisse, Sophie Thatcher, Tawny Cypress, Yellowjackets

Teen trauma, survivor’s guilt, and plenty of gore mix in a genre show worthy of its buzz

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Ghosts
TELEVISION 

They See Dead People

January 21, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Brandon Scott Jones, Ghosts, Rose McIver, Utkarsh Abudkar

The cheeky charms of CBS’s surprise hit sitcom ‘Ghosts’

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How I Met Your Father
TELEVISION 

Who Cares How I Met Your Father?

January 20, 2022April 3, 2022 Paula Shaffer 1 Comment Christopher Lowell, Francia Raisia, Hilary Duff, How I Met Your Father, How I Met Your Mother, Suraj Sharma, Tien Tran, Tom Ainsley

Faint echoes of TV past

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The Wheel of Time
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Big Wheel Keeps On Turnin’

November 23, 2021December 6, 2021 Paula Shaffer 2 Comments Daniel Henney, Game Of Thrones, George RR Martin, Robert Jordan, Rosamund Pike, The Wheel of Time

Amazon’s ‘Wheel of Time’ adaptation, lush and a little self-serious

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Bread Barbershop
TELEVISION 

The Disturbingly Weird World of ‘Bread Barbershop’

September 15, 2021April 3, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Bong Joon-Ho, Bread Barbershop, Gangnam Style, The Masked Singer

What’s in the water in South Korea?

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Only Murders In The Building
TELEVISION 

‘Only Murders In The Building’, They Wrote

September 3, 2021March 10, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Martin Short, Only Murders In The Building, Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, Sting, true crime

Steve Martin, Martin Short (and Selena Gomez) together again, living the true crime dream

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The Bold Type
TELEVISION 

Pour One Out for ‘The Bold Type’

June 29, 2021March 16, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Cosmopolitan, Freeform, Sassy Magazine, The Bold Type

Praise for the fashion-magazine show as it steers to a close

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Special
TELEVISION 

‘Special’ Brings All The Feels

June 23, 2021March 15, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Jessica Hecht, Punam Patel, Ryan O'Connell, Special

A somehow universally relatable show about a lonely gay man with cerebral palsy

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What Went Wrong With ‘Paper Girls’?

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