There is nothing necessarily new about a character's surprising return, but the particular attention to the absent mother taps into a current and contentious discourse of motherhood: attachment parenting.
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Mom Enough?: The Return of the Absentee Mother as Threat
Grimm and the Monstrous Feminine
Dead women are standard set dressing on most crime dramas, but the more I watched the more I realized the women in Grimm aren’t usually homicide victims – they’re monsters.
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Life Is Not A Fairy Tale
Just in time for Halloween, ABC and NBC both rolled out new shows last week focusing on the basic premise that Fairy Tales are real and their protagonists, or their ancestors, are living somewhere in the United States.
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