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Watching Like a Mother

May 9, 2010
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Watching Like a Mother

In the nearly three years since I joined the motherhood, I’ve noticed differences in the meanings I make and in what stays with me.
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A Damaged Conclusion

April 30, 2010
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A Damaged Conclusion

Looking back at Damages, I realize it would have been right at home amidst '80s film narratives that demonized career women while asserting the proper place of women at the hearth in the home.
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Beyond I Told You So: NBC Could Have Saved Network TV

January 10, 2010
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Beyond I Told You So: NBC Could Have Saved Network TV

NBC deserves an A- for taking a bold move with The Jay Leno Show, although a D for deployment.
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Television and the 2000s: Notes on Cable Drama

December 15, 2009
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Television and the 2000s: Notes on Cable Drama

The early arrival of the obligatory “this year’s best” lists and even some that note this as the end of the first decade of the 21st century left me thinking about what can be said of television programming of the past ten years.
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