Category: television
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Distant Lights in a Fog: Forest of Secrets Season 2
At its halfway mark, the second season of Forest of Secrets (Stranger) is living up to the promise of its freshman year
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The 100: a tedious final season
The 100 is halfway through its final season. But with little commitment to the show’s themes and a lot of running around, the show has become tedious.
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Dark: An Allegory of Rebirth
Dark’s final season was as mind-melting as we’d hoped but also truly beautiful.
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Diversity in Dramaland: An addendum to Backstreet Rookie
Saya over at Dramas Over Flowers has written a wonderful piece about Diversity in Dramaland that discusses the issues with race that my rant on Backstreet Rookie tangentially referenced but didn’t go into. It’s a well-researched and informed piece that helps to shed some light on the issues of diversity and the portrayal of Otherness…
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Dark and the Bootstrap Paradox
Dark’s universe is a self-contained time loop. Bootstrap Paradoxes abound
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Backstreet Rookie: The Drama That Should Not Exist
Not gonna lie. I made a pact that for the duration of Backstreet Rookie (alt. Convenience Store Saet–byul) I was going to hide until it went away. From its announcement, this drama was such a disgusting waste of time, talent and broadcast space that I’d have preferred to exist in an universe where it was…
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Nostalgia Watch: I Hear Your Voice
The Covid19 lockdown has provided a good chance to catch up on some classic dramas. I Hear Your Voice is one of them.
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Picard Series Review: A nostalgic vanity project
I came into Picard with great expectations and was thus quite badly disappointed.
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2020: The Year of the Creep
Things improved a great deal in 2019 but they were not perfect. Still, the optimism for 2020 was not unwarranted. Unfortunately that optimism has so far been in vain. Three months into 2020 and the year is shaping up to be The Year of the Creep.
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The Past is Another Country: Someday One Day Episode 13
When I was in highschool in the 1990s, I used to have a Walkman. And on that Walkman I used to play tapes. It was only later – much later – that this turned into a Discman and eventually an iPod. But for most of my formative adolescence, I used to play tapes. No matter…