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“Reality-television fans have high standards for artifice”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 February 2021
Reality-television fans have high standards for artifice, which needs to seem both believable and...
Tagged Real Housewives, Reality Television, Television, TV |
Television

“…long before the age of quarantine, kids under the age of six spent a crazy amount of time indoors, watching television, a bleary-eyed average of fifty-four hours a week”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 July 2020
Half a century ago, before “Sesame Street,” and long before the age of quarantine,...
Tagged America, kids, Television |
Politics in America, Television

“The sessions are extraordinary for the rare glimpses they provide of unscripted conversations at the White House on critical issues”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 March 2018
The chief executive sits at a long wooden table, putting his invited guests on...
Tagged Politics in America, PResident trump, Television, Trump Administration, Trump PResidency, White House |
Television

“The ’90s was the decade…in which conspiracism…became a form of kitschy entertainment”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 January 2017
The ’90s was the decade of Oliver Stone’s “J.F.K.,” “The X-Files” and late-night Roswell...
Tagged 1990s, Entertainment, Television |
Sex, Television

“The tone-setting awkward sex scene has become a staple of the modern television series opener”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 November 2016
Perhaps you’ve seen the new TV series whose pilot episode begins this way: A...
Tagged Sex, Television |
Entertainment, Movies, Pop Culture, Television

“Superhero team-building is a venerable comic-book practice, one that flourished in the ’60s and ’70s…more or less contemporaneously with the first voyages of the Starship Enterprise”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 September 2016
Nothing in popular culture, or in consumer capitalism, is ever really new. Superhero team-building...
Tagged Comics, Star Trek, Work Place |
Television

“There’s room for both kinds of shows, but as ‘Cosby’ recedes from reruns, ‘Roc’ seems especially worthy of reconsideration”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 August 2016
…looking back at “Roc,” I find it interesting to consider that before his acting...
Tagged Entertainment, Roc, Television, Television Shows, The Cosby Show |
Politics in America, Television

“As a reality TV professional, I would be lucky to strike gold like Donald Trump once or twice in a career”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 October 2015
I’ve been working in reality television for 10 years, and I can tell you...
Tagged Donald Trump, Presidential Election, Presidential Race, Presidential Race 2016, Reality TV |
Politics in America, Television

“Donald Trump is the presidential candidate that reality TV made”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 October 2015
Donald Trump is the presidential candidate that reality TV made. An electorate trained in...
Tagged Donald Trump, Presidential Race, Presidential Race 2016, Reality TV, Television |
Television

“The humor and pathos of “Louie” come not only from the occasional funny feelings that he has about his privileges…but also, more profoundly, from his knowledge that the conceptual and imaginative foundations of those privileges have crumbled beneath him”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 December 2014
The humor and pathos of “Louie” come not only from the occasional funny feelings...
Tagged Culture, Feminism, Television |
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