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Friday, 01 January 2021 09:56

What's Left on the Dial? Alternative TV in the U.S.

Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe reviews alternative TV and podcasts in the US. Image above: Amber Ruffin as Melania Trump on Late Night The US election has finally been secured with even Donald Trump tacitly acknowledging that he lost. In the aftermath, the mainstream media has now swung behind Joe Biden and the…

Melania Trump Means TV Socialist Program A Closer Look The Daily Show

Thursday, 24 December 2020 09:40

The Year of Living Digitally: 2020 Top 30 Global TV Series

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe reviews global streaming services, part of a generalized movement online this year, and nominates his Top 30 The biggest story in television this year was the rise of the streaming services, with Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV+, and NBCUniversal's Peacock joining what was already the crowded field of…

Monday, 21 December 2020 21:15

Marginalised and forgotten: indigenous and working-class people in TV series

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe reviews TV series that focus on indigenous and working-class themes, including Mystery Road, Don’t Forget The Driver, The Connors, and Superstore. Image above: Aaron Pedersen as Jay Swan in Mystery Road Few series on television focus either on both the earth’s first inhabitants, the indigenous, now mostly quartered…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 18 December 2020 08:29

Coming Undone: The Undoing, Big Sky, The Deceived and the limits of MeToo

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe reviews some more series TV, regrets the reactionary and elitist tendencies of some contemporay feminism, and calls us 'to reach across race and class boundaries installed by a capitalist patriarchy'. Image above: Grace’s Manhattan in The Undoing “The rich are different,” said Fitzgerald, in a languishing dreamy tone.…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 11 December 2020 11:24

What’s Left on the Dial? Alternative TV and Podcasts

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe gives us a guide to some alternative TV media The US election has finally been secured with even Donald Trump tacitly acknowledging that he lost. In the aftermath, the mainstream media has now swung behind Joe Biden and the return to normalcy. The dominant media opposed Trump not…

RT Redacted Tonight Mother of all Talk Shows Means TV Democracy Now Loud and Clear The Socialist Program Moderate Rebels Late Night The Daily Show A Closer Look

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 09 December 2020 14:05

John Brown as buffoon in 'The Good Lord Bird', vs. Brown as radical in 'Underground'

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe compares and contrasts two images of John Brown in recent TV series. Image above: John Brown at his zaniest, in The Good Lord Bird While the last two episodes of Ethan Hawkes recounting of the John Brown story have some emotional resonance, The Good Lord Bird as a…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 25 November 2020 10:15

5G and ‘Biohackers’: Technology Rules Ok! (or does it?)

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe writes about how 5G technology is designed to make the world safe for capitalist cultures of consumption, and reviews Biohackers There seems to be no questioning the technological imperative. 5G will, when it is fully operative, increase download speeds such that general mobile phone internet activity will be…

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Sunday, 15 November 2020 16:30

Lovecraft Country: Liberating 1950s Apartheid America One Monster At A Time

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe continues his review of new TV series. Image above: Battling Housing Segregation in '50s Chicago, from Lovecraft Country It’s now a done deal with the series already out in its entirety, but the best pilot and one of the best shows of the year is HBO’s Lovecraft Country.…

Black Lives Matter Underground

Friday, 11 September 2020 09:52

‘Vida’ on Starz: Fighting gentrification “But with a little sex”

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe reviews Vida and some other of the latest series on streaming services. Image above:Vida’s Mari (Chelsea Rendon) as neighbourhood activist All over the news today are articles about a new kind of white flight, again as in the 1960s to the suburbs, but this time it is also…

Vida Gentrified Motherless in Brooklyn Starz PValley Party Down

Saturday, 22 August 2020 08:55

The Finales of Fearless and Perry Mason: How to End and How Not to End a Serial TV Season

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe continues his series on TV series, looking at Fearless and the new Perry Mason. Image above: Peaky Blinders’ Helen McCrory as crusading defense attorney in Fearless There was a lot of fanfare recently around the wrapping up of HBO’s remake of Perry Mason – which unfortunately has a…

Sunday, 16 August 2020 08:30

Green Frontier and Wild District: The Bolivarian vs. The Bolsonarian Revolution

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe reviews Green Frontier and Wild District, two shockingly different approaches to South American struggles for political liberation. The image above is from Green Frontier Two series from Colombia, Green Frontier and Wild District, both Netflix originals and both made by the same production house, Dynamo, stake out the…

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