In 1999, Bette and I spent winter break in front of his VCR watching Titanic and The Matrix, movies that were unintentionally apt for the Y2K version of the end…
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Early reviewers describe Bo Burnham’s pandemic special, Inside (Netflix 2021), as a smart takedown of internet culture, a meta-cinematic meditation on the powers and limits of comedic performance, and a…
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My introduction to Love Island began with a parody I didn’t understand. It was August of 2019 and I was engrossed in the Mindy Kaling-produced adaptation of Four Weddings and…
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I couldn’t remember, so I asked my mother how old I was when I first watched The Munsters. She said I was four. She said that it was part of…
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TRIGGER WARNING: This essay contains references to suicide that may be triggering to some. Within the deservedly acclaimed finale of BoJack Horseman, there’s one scene in particular that encapsulates the…
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“When I flash the porch light twice that means it’s time to come home,” matriarch Olivia Crain tells her children. This parental rule imparts a precocious young Nell with a…
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Character Mitch Larsen, “The Killing” Sunday evenings in high school, I attended youth services at a local evangelical church. One Sunday, I tagged along on a post-worship excursion to the…
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Of all the icons that sprung from the 1990s, no one has made me feel “seen” like the titular character in the MTV cartoon series Daria. Growing up in the…
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The most unreal of things have come into your possession: a royal title, a spot in the pantheon of fashion, a painting Warhol did of you. What most assume you…
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Like entering a tastefully debauched party in a loft and finding out it used to be a yeshiva, I walked into Russian Doll not expecting a tour of the modern…
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Continuing with our series of “Best of 2019″ lists curated by the entire Entropy community, we present some of our favorite selections as nominated by the diverse staff and team…
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PoliticsTelevisionThe Surprising Progressivism of Days of Our Lives, or, How I Justify My Soap Habit
On a show where the hard-working, virtuous, “good” families are the lily-white Hortons and Bradys, and the criminal, selfish “bad” families are of a darker hue (the Greek-American Kiriakises and…
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A Review of Hulu’s Catch-22 and Prognostications for Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude Once upon a time, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller was, according to Vanity Fair, “one of the…
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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,…
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