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Heart Of Glass

July 18, 2019 Vince Ambrosone 7 Comments Blown Away, glassblowing

On Netflix’s ‘Blown Away’, the Ancient Art of Glassblowing Gets Its Due

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‘The Change’ Can Do You Good

July 17, 2019 Mia McCullough 2 Comments All In The Family, Better Things, Dead To Me, Linda Cardellini, Pamela Adlon, That 70s Show, The Golden Girls

Why Does TV Keep Misrepresenting Menopause?

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A Crime In Time

July 16, 2019July 17, 2019 Jeff Martin 0 Comments Babylon Berlin, Dark, Werner Herzog

‘Dark’, Where Nothing is What (or When) it Seems

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Who Deserves to be a Millionaire?

July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Awake, Card Sharks, Chris Hardwick, Dax Shepard, Elizabeth Banks, Holey Moley, Jeopardy!, Joel McHale, Justin Timberlake, LeBron James, Press Your Luck, Rob Riggle, Spin The Wheel, Stephan Curry, The Wall

The Casual, Condescending Cruelty of the New Game Shows

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Marisol’s Baby

July 11, 2019July 10, 2019 Elijah Pollack 0 Comments Culture Shock, Get Out, Into The Dark, Martha Higareda

‘Into the Dark: Culture Shock,’ or ‘The Stepford Migrants’

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Stranger Things and Where to Buy Them

July 10, 2019July 10, 2019 Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell 0 Comments Duffer Brothers, Eleven, Hawkins, Jim Hopper, Starcourt Mall, Stranger Things, Winona Ryder

Scenes From a Mall

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Anima Instincts

July 9, 2019July 9, 2019 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments Anima, Anima Technologies, Dajana Roncione, Damien Chazelle, Darius Khondji, Junan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Suspira, Thom Yorke

An Expressive, Intimate Film to Accompany Thom Yorke’s New Album

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Mysterious and Espooky

July 1, 2019July 2, 2019 Omar Gallaga 0 Comments 30 Rock, Coco, Flight of the Conchords, Fred Armisen, Los Espookys, Pixar

The Fantastical and Funny Adventures of Some Latin-American Goths, on HBO

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Feel Bad TV

June 26, 2019June 26, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Breaking Bad, Don Draper, Euphoria, Holocaust, Holocaust on NBC, Meryl Streep, Roots, The Handmaid's Tale, Tony Soprano, Treme, When They See Us

Watching is Our Moral Duty, Apparently

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Dysphoria

June 26, 2019June 25, 2019 Elijah Pollack 0 Comments Euphoria, HBO, Zendaya

HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ Does Not Whatsoever Reflect the Lives of Real Teens. Signed, a Real Teenager.

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Thank You For Being My Friends

June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments Bea Arthur, Betty White, Estelle Getty, George Clooney, Leslie Nielsen, Mario Lopez, Quentin Tarantino, Rue McLanahan, The Golden Girls

Why Millennials Love ‘The Golden Girls’

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‘When They See Us’

June 20, 2019June 21, 2019 Erika Schickel 0 Comments Ava DuVernay, Donald Trump, Felicity Huffman, Jharrel Jerome, Oprah Winfrey, The Central Park Five, Vera Farmiga

I Once Played the Central Park Jogger, but Ava DuVernay’s Netflix Miniseries Tells the Real Story

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Tales of the Kinda Shitty

June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 Neal Pollack 2 Comments Anna Madrigal, Armistead Maupin, Ellen Page, Jen Richards, Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Tales of the City, Zosia Mamet

Netflix’s ‘Tales of the City’ Revival Wallows in Nostalgia for the Present

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Drug Dorks of Germany

June 18, 2019 Elijah Pollack 1 Comment Breaking Bad, How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast)

‘How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)’ on Netflix

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I Want My OTV

June 13, 2019June 13, 2019 Mia McCullough 0 Comments FOBia, For Better, Open Television, OTV, Shannon Noll, The Femme Queen Chronicles, The Haven

Chicago Non-Profit Tells the Stories that Mainstream TV Doesn’t

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