Category: TV series
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Brain Dump: Characters We Love to Hate
A brain dump is a series of short thoughts on this and that. Today I have a theme: characters we love to hate. American Crime I have not discovered one likeable character in American Crime. Every person in the story – from the cops to the victims to the families to the criminals – is…
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Media Coverage and Female Athletes
Media Coverage and Female Athletes is a documentary from the University of Minnesota Tucker Center and Twin Cities public television. “Forty percent of all athletes are women, but only 4% are represented in the media – and too often how they look is more important than their skills. Explore the issue with scholars, the media,…
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Orphan Black: S3, E1 The Weight of This Combination
Orphan Black kicked off season 3 with “The Weight of This Combination.” The ride was both delightful and scary. We begin mere seconds from where season 2 stopped. The Female Clones The episode opens with a 4 clone scene. It’s a candy colored world where a very pregnant Helena (Tatiana Maslany, a multitude) is surrounded…
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Watch This: Dark Matter 1st Trailer
Are we lost in space yet? Why, yes, almost. GUYS. The @dark_matterTV trailer is out! So excited for all of you to see this. http://t.co/UUnIBnNgUR — Jodelle Ferland (@jodellemicah) April 10, 2015 The first trailer for the SyFy drama Dark Matter is out. The new series will have 13-episodes on SyFy, debuting June 12th. In…
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Watch This: Kyra Sedgwick Talks about Casting Jennifer Beals in Proof + Trailers
The new TNT series Proof will begin this summer, on the schedule right after Rizzoli and Isles. Series producer Kyra Sedgwick recently talked about casting Jennifer Beals as a thorasic surgeon, the lead character in Proof. A couple of trailers for Proof have been released, which I didn’t post here yet. This seems like a…
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Tribute to Lost Girl
@Mahler5th created a lovely Lost Girl video. It’s a tribute to the actors, fans, crew, writers, directors and everyone who made Lost Girl a success. Even though we still have a bit of season 5 to get through, this video feels like it includes everyone and everything that made the show a hit. We see…
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Lois Smith in The Americans and in Ruth & Erica
Last week in the “Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep” episode of The Americans, Lois Smith was a guest star. It was an important episode of The Americans because it showed the Russian spy, Elizabeth (Keri Russell) as she begins to grasp the horror of what she does as a spy.
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5 Sources for Free Movies and TV
Free – or almost free – sources for streaming movies and TV is what I’m sharing today. These are things you can watch anywhere you can get an Internet connection without shelling out big bucks to the cable company or the phone company. The free services generally have ads, but you are bombarded with ads…
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The Dovekeepers
Tonight and tomorrow night, the four-hour mini series The Dovekeepers airs on CBS. At once epic and intimate, The Dovekeepers is based on the novel by Alice Hoffman about the seige of Masada. Masada was a Jewish stronghold atop a mountain in the Judean desert. The key part of the story involves women whose roles…
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Gloria Steinem on “Chick Flicks”
Gloria Steinem blogs about books at Open Roads Media. The blog is called “Reading our way to the Revolution.” The once monthly column looks at a timeless and timely book. Her latest review is about The Group, a 1963 novel by Mary McCarthy. The Group is the latest review of a book that helped start…