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April 29, 2022 12:34 am

Film files: Summer films and TV shows to cure your finals-week blues

By Hannah Eliot 3814 Views Binge Watching, Film, Films, Foreign Film, Foreign Films, List, Recommendations, Summer, Summer Break, Summer Movie Watchlist, Summer Recommendations, Summer To-Dos, TV, TV Column, TV Series, TV Show, TV shows, Watchlist

Need an excuse to procrastinate, or want something to look forward to after finals? Film columnist Hannah Eliot SC ’24 has you covered with film and TV recommendations.

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April 28, 2022 8:05 pm

Regularly scheduled programming: You don’t have to have to be a Breaking Baddie to love ‘Better Call Saul’

By Claire DuMont 3394 Views Albuquerque, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Crime Drama, Drama, Saul Goodman, Television, TV

With its incredible writing and acting, “Better Call Saul” is a success of a sequel, argues to TV columnist Claire DuMont SC ’23. Even if you haven’t seen “Better Call Saul’s” forerunner, you can still enjoy it.

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April 14, 2022 10:58 pm

Regularly scheduled programming: ‘Severance’ is a workplace show you won’t want to forget

By Claire DuMont 3373 Views Adam Scott, Apple TV+, Britt Lower, Severance, TV shows, Work Life Balance, Workplace Comedies, Workplace Shows, Zach Cherry

TV columnist Claire DuMont SC ’23 explains how the Apple TV+ show “Severance” revitalizes the genre of the workplace TV show.

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April 14, 2022 9:01 pmApril 15, 2022 7:29 pm

Lights, camera, casting: Unpacking race and representation on ‘Bridgerton’

By Anuradha Krishnan and Sridha Chadalavada 5167 Views Asian Representation, Bridgerton, Bridgerton Season Two, Cultural Appreciation, Culture, Indian Representation, Race, Race in Film, Race in TV, Representation, Representation in TV, South Asian, South Asian Representation, TV, TV Representation, TV Series, TV Show, TV shows

Because of its inconsistency with discussing race and culture, season two of “Bridgerton” continues the first season’s failure at genuinely portraying a post-racial society, argue Sridha Chadalavada PO ’24 and Anuradha Krishnan PO ’24.

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Arts & Culture Columns TV

April 7, 2022 9:23 pm

Scene it: ‘Pam & Tommy’ does the very thing it argues against

By Rorye Jones 2675 Views Gender, Gender in Film, Gender Inequality, Gendered Power Dynamics, Hulu, Sexism, Show, Shows, TV, TV Column, TV Review, TV Series, TV Show, TV shows

By effectively recreating Pamela Anderson’s trauma, “Pam & Tommy” practices the opposite of what it preaches, TV and film columnist Rorye Jones PO ’23 argues.

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March 24, 2022 10:25 pm

Regularly scheduled programming: ‘Abbott Elementary’ is bringing back the network sitcom

By Claire DuMont 2249 Views Abbott Elementary, ABC, ABC Sitcoms, BuzzFeed, Chris Perfetti, Comedies, Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, Network Comedies, Network Sitcoms, Quinta Brunson, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Sitcoms, teaching, Tyler James Williams

For TV columnist Claire DuMont SC ’23, “Abbott Elementary” revitalized her appreciation for network TV in the era of the streaming service.

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March 3, 2022 9:13 pm

Regularly scheduled programming: How watching ‘Saturday Night Live’ compilations made me love the show again

By Claire DuMont 3376 Views Compilations, Please Don't Destroy, Saturday Night Live, Sketch TV, SNL, SNL Compilations, The Lonely Island, TV, TV Column, TV Comedy, Weekend Update, YouTube, YouTube Compilations

TV columnist Claire DuMont SC ’23 explains how watching compilations of “SNL” sketches on YouTube can help rekindle a fading love for the long-running show.