TV

For a foreigner in the UK, the most telling part of this observational documentary are British households’ responses to recent political events.
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This second installment of "I, Reboot" dives into the origins of the reboot-as-narrative-analogy and distinguishes "reboot" from "ret-con."
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With its reliance on speculation, dependence on simulation, and occasional swerves into absurdity, CNN's coverage of Malaysia Airlines 370 indexes the incomprehensibility of this disaster, marked by the failures of so many systems that seemed to promise safety, visibility, and order.
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Comedy Central has long courted young men with disconcerting portrayals of women, but several of its programs this spring provide small indications of a different politics of representation.
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it’s not enough to talk about individual companies trading in on the Olympics: many of the corporate sponsors are making money off of other companies making money off of the Olympics
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The unending string of hilarious #SochiProblems and daily stories of government gluttony have positioned Russia as a sort of shadow version of the American Way of Life.
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"Part Flight of the Conchords, part sincere, part ethnographic in their understanding of how kids’ heads work, and funny, relaxing, and ear-wormy, they are my favorite thing on television."
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Sometimes love surprises us; I never thought I’d love Sons of Anarchy.
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The Beatles appealed to girls through familiar and comforting girl-group discourse, but they also became the “bad boys” who worried parents. Such rebelliousness, however, was managed through androgyny, not conventional masculinity.
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Somewhere in the British/American relationship, a distinct genre of television has originated, which I propose to call “Trollywood.”
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On the heels of some binge-viewing, Jonathan Gray discusses Disney Junior’s three female-centered original series
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Despite the way flow helped coalesce our field, there's not really an overwhelming body of flow work, especially with regard to the pleasure people derive from it.
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Space is not neutral, especially the mobile app world in San Francisco.
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The Twitter-Comcast partnership and their See It feature could have interesting consequences for lesser social networks like GetGlue and Viggle.
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Despite a rough start to the season, Saturday Night Live continues to be a fascinating case study for understanding American television.
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