The chief executive sits at a long wooden table, putting his invited guests on the spot to defend their positions, occasionally needling […]
The ’90s was the decade of Oliver Stone’s “J.F.K.,” “The X-Files” and late-night Roswell documentaries — the decade in which conspiracism, safely […]
Perhaps you’ve seen the new TV series whose pilot episode begins this way: A man and a woman are having sex, but […]
Nothing in popular culture, or in consumer capitalism, is ever really new. Superhero team-building is a venerable comic-book practice, one that flourished […]
…looking back at “Roc,” I find it interesting to consider that before his acting career, Charles S. Dutton did almost a decade […]
I’ve been working in reality television for 10 years, and I can tell you that Mr. Trump is exactly what we look […]
Donald Trump is the presidential candidate that reality TV made. An electorate trained in voting contestants on and off shows like “American […]
The humor and pathos of “Louie” come not only from the occasional funny feelings that he has about his privileges — which […]
The catalyst for pro football’s breakthrough in the latter half of the 1950s and 1960s was the new medium of television. The […]
Not only have shows like “The Sopranos” and “Mad Men” heralded the end of male authority; we’ve also witnessed the erosion of […]
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