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The Other Dramatic Transformation of NBC’s “Up All Night”

January 1, 2013
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The Other Dramatic Transformation of NBC’s “Up All Night”

It has been a really hard fall for a feminist TV lover. Problems abound with both the character of Julia Braverman-Graham of Parenthood, and Mindy Kaling's character on her new show, The Mindy Project. But nothing–nothing–has exceeded my disappointment more than the transformation of Up All Night.
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Television and the Haunted Holiday

October 28, 2010
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Television and the Haunted Holiday

By disrupting the everyday with a yearly tradition which unite a show's cast, Halloween episodes can use the holiday's blurring of fantasy and reality to speak to questions of character.
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Holding My Breath: Women, Work, and Parenthood

June 3, 2010
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Holding My Breath: Women, Work, and <i>Parenthood</i>

To the series’ credit, it often “goes there”—into those contentious waters of clearly gendered dilemmas about women’s work, motherhood, and guilt that were a mainstay of a lot of 1980s and 1990s drama.
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Character Bleed; or, What is Lorelai Gilmore Doing with Nate Fisher?

May 3, 2010
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Character Bleed; or, What is Lorelai Gilmore Doing with Nate Fisher?

Seeing Graham as Sarah Braverman evokes for both Derek and me her role of Lorelai, but whereas I view Sarah as maybe a little snarkier and wittier than she’s written in the show, for Derek the roles crash.
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