Tunesday: The 2020 VMAs did these ones dirty
Without further ado, here’s a playlist of the artists who deserve better from the 2020 VMAs (and the music videos you should check out anyway).
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Michaela Coel’s ‘I May Destroy You’ is blueprint for portraying media reality
“I May Destroy You” poses a tangential question: How do our cyborg bodies digest complicated traumas?
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‘The Legend of Korra’: A great sequel to a beloved show
Unlike other sequels, “Korra” perfectly introduces an entirely new storyline while maintaining what made “Avatar” special.
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When board games go virtual
To sit down and physically play a board game is a luxury few expected would disappear overnight.
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Rhea Seehorn deserves an Emmy nomination (and the world)
If there is one snub of this year’s Emmys season that is completely inexplicable, it’s the lack of nomination for Rhea Seehorn for her portrayal of Kim Wexler on “Better Call Saul.”
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My love-hate letter to the Italian Summer
The Italian Summer is an all-too-common trope in fiction, a dramatic foil to the misery of English spring showers and gray skies.
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Ariel Gore’s ‘We Were Witches’ is literary resistance
Creativity can only go so far when thinking outside of the box, but Gore, with her next-level literature-sorcery, turns the box over entirely and shapes it into something else.
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5 plays written about and by Black people
The radical choices these artists made to represent Black voices in a white-dominated theater is significant as we imagine a future of authentic Black representation onstage.
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Kristen Bell, Jenny Slate’s resignations speak to larger problem in TV industry
Bell and Slate shouldn’t have even been in consideration for these characters, and the fact that they were points to a larger lack of concern for diversity in Hollywood that exists outside of the sphere of these two shows.
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Reflecting on #MeToo: Why we shouldn’t separate art from artist
In an increasingly digital age, appreciating an abuser’s art without repercussions is not possible.
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