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Film & Television

Monday, July 12, 2021

‘Gossip Girl’ reboot is fresh yet flawed entertainment  

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Though the show is not able to capture the same lighthearted humor and complex dynamics, it certainly replicates the original’s endearing nature by utilizing a modern lens to expose the gossip about Manhattan’s elite. 
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Arts Awards, Film & Television

Thursday, December 3, 2020
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The Daily Californian’s Arts Awards: Television of 2020

With Taylor-Joy’s gazing eyes and sharp wits pounding through the screen, the audience is transported to the front row of her countless intense chess matches. If you ever thought chess was boring, “The Queen’s Gambit” will surely convince you otherwise.
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Culture Shot

Wednesday, July 8, 2020
White Actors voicing Black Characters

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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Film & Television

Monday, November 25, 2019

’Frozen II’ is origin story audiences didn’t know they needed

All in all, “Frozen II” does exactly what it sets out to: it returns audiences to a world it once loved and leaves plenty of room to grow.
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Film & Television

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Season 4 premiere of ‘The Good Place’ was good

On Thursday night, the bittersweet final first episode aired on NBC and signaled that this farewell season will indeed be a fun one.
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Culture Shot

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Picks of the Week: Social horror films, poetry of ballet, music biopics

This has been an exciting week for music releases and Thursday is the perfect time to catch up with it all. Lizzo released her newest single, “Tempo,” featuring Missy Elliot on Mar. 20.
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Commentary

Friday, October 5, 2018
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Why today’s media should take lessons from ‘The Good Place’

Shows that try to mirror the real world often glamorize or demonize it, but “The Good Place” just reflects it. Nobody is perfectly good or irrevocably bad. That’s what makes it so difficult to coexist, but it’s also what makes it so important to try to be a good person.
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Film & Television

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Maybe we are in ‘The Good Place’ after all: Season 2 review

If you’re not watching “The Good Place” already, stop reading this and go watch it immediately. It’s streaming on Hulu. Go.
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Film & Television

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

The Daily Californian Arts Awards: Television of 2017

Whether on our laptops or in our living rooms, television has always been a space of escape, in which our ideologies are reflected back to us.
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Culture Shot

Monday, November 6, 2017

Why ‘A Bad Moms Christmas’ reminds me of how inaccurately Hollywood views women

This movie perpetuates humiliating and discriminatory stereotypes of mothers for the sake of easy jokes. Every scene is like wading through a pool of debris of poor decisions by the writers. Lucas and Moore pick the low-hanging fruit that they know will get a laugh from audiences who believe these stereotypes to be true.
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