Happy Valley was released in August as a "Netflix Original," but you likely didn't notice. Unlike Netflix's other babies, House of Cards or Orange is the New Black, there really wasn't much promotion for it. That's because it's technically not a Netflix original show -- they just got North American distribution rights, but it originally premiered on BBC1 … Continue reading You Should Be Watching: Happy Valley
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You Should Be Watching Channel 4’s Utopia
What do those pesky feminists want from female characters? This debate about seems to go on forever. Not among feminists, of course, but among people who want to roll their eyes about "those feminists" always demanding that every show have a strong lead female character. Which of course is not what most feminists want … Continue reading You Should Be Watching Channel 4’s Utopia
The Leftovers, or Why We Need to Stop Predicting the Next Breaking Bad
The Leftovers premiered a couple of weeks ago on HBO. Based on the Rapture-esque Tom Perrotta novel of the same name, the show follows the lives of a group of small town residents still reeling from an event three years earlier in which 2% of the world's population mysteriously disappeared. More a treatise on grief … Continue reading The Leftovers, or Why We Need to Stop Predicting the Next Breaking Bad
