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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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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“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.…
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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…
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