Television

As the daughter of a CIA agent, I usually roll my eyes at spy thrillers. They’re highly unrealistic, especially when it comes to portraying family members—like in the Americans when the daughter,…

In the third season of True Detective, Nic Pizzolatto has expertly circumnavigated the bait-and-switch prerogatives we’ve come to expect with the genre of true crime; he’s played on our perverse…

Netflix Original Something in the Rain (or Pretty Noona Who Buys me Food) is a Korean drama that was released in March 2018. Critically acclaimed and boasting some of the…

Exceptionally well-written scripts It is easy to make people cry or to scare them, but to genuinely make people laugh— that’s hard. Good writing however, is a strong starting point.…

Continuing with our series of “Best of 2018″ lists curated by the entire Entropy community, we present some of our favorite selections as nominated by the diverse staff and team…

“I think about you all the time. I think about what you’re wearing and what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with. I think about what friends you have.…

Copyrighted Image. Image Credit: Sense8 Finale, Segolene Lagny / Netflix   The just-concluded Netflix series Sense8 is lonely, but never alone. There is a big bad multinational company (the Biologic…

In no particular order, our top 25 TV shows in 2017 as curated by the CCM-Entropy community as well as nominations from our readers. 1) Twin Peaks: The Return (Season…

As a filmmaker, journalist, and film programmer, I attend festivals all the time. Sometimes one of my films is playing; sometimes I’m there to review films. The most recent festival…

Level: Beginner to Intermediate (which translates to having watched 1-3 Kdramas)   Perhaps you recently fell in love with Kdrams through “Secret Garden” or you watched “A Jewel in the…

There hasn’t been a time I was less at home in my own body than when I was a teenager. Breasts sprouted, full of possibility that would never be realized.…

In 1992, a twelve year old boy rented a movie from his local Blockbuster which featured a blonde cheerleader who also happened to be a vampire slayer. I had fantastic…

The Santa Clarita Diet on Netflix, which started airing on February 3rd, was eagerly anticipated and met with favorable reviews. I binged the whole thing in two days. It was…

In no particular order, our top 25 television shows in 2016: [Best of 2016] 1) Westworld (Season 1, HBO) 2) Bojack Horseman (Season 3, Netflix) 3) Atlanta (Season 1, FX)…