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Karen Townsend | November 18, 2021
The fifth season of Netflix’s Big Mouth began streaming on November 5 with ten new episodes. This season is the same as the others, filled with non-stop masturbation scenes, crude sex puns, and tween angst. Holiday episodes for Thanksgiving and Christmas were included with the Christmas episode being particularly disgusting with a full-frontal shot of Santa’s naked penis. The special “A Very Big…
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Karen Townsend | November 18, 2021
The irony is plentiful in the second season of Netflix’s Gentefied, a series devoted to a Mexican-American family and their everyday struggles to live the American Dream, released on November 10. The first episode delivers the trope that “eleven million live in the shadows” yet the main storyline is about the Morales family patriarch who illegally entered the United States over thirty years ago…
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Karen Townsend | October 6, 2021
The 1990s are back and the ugly Clinton scandals are woven into FX’s Impeachment: American Crime Story, with the main focus of the mini-series being President Bill Clinton’s sexual exploitation of Monica Lewinsky. With many key players in today's political landscape being involved in the saga, Ryan Murphy's series appeared to work in a hit against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. In the…
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Karen Townsend | October 1, 2021
The Harper House on Paramount+ follows Debbie Harper (voice of Rhea Seehorn) and her family as they struggle to adapt to their new life after Debbie loses her job and they must move from the wealthy side to the poor side of a small Arkansas town. They are a woke liberal family so it is not at all surprising that the episode that began streaming on September 30, titled “Baby Talk/Coupon Kid,”…
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Karen Townsend | September 29, 2021
After four seasons of a Netflix show devoted to black college students telling white people how bad they are, it is time for graduation and the show to end. (Read our recaps of seasons 1, 2, and 3.) The fourth and final season of Dear White People began streaming on September 22. The big controversy this season was over the Black Student Union (BSU) taking over control of the annual student…
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Karen Townsend | September 21, 2021
It must be white guilt week for network television shows as the fall season gets underway. Even in the world of superheroes, the white characters are taken to task for not being woke enough for their black counterparts. The struggle is real. In the episode of The CW’s Supergirl titled “Blind Spots,” which aired on September 21, the newest superhero, Guardian, realizes it is time to step up and…
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Karen Townsend | September 20, 2021
Entertainment award shows are different in the post-Trump age. Gone are the loud and vulgar obscenities and rants against those who think differently than our woke betters in Hollywood. Award shows are back to being almost boring with a few randomly odd remarks sprinkled in that at least half of the viewers will find offensive. The 73rd Emmy Awards aired on CBS on September 19. The evening…
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Karen Townsend | September 13, 2021
The 40th MTV Video Music Awards aired on September 12, but although the awards ceremony is getting older it's not getting any wiser. The first half-hour of the show included two iconic female singers, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper. One wonders, though, if many of the younger audience members even knew who they were. Lauper brought a little bit of random politics as she introduced a live performance…
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Karen Townsend | August 13, 2021
What’s a feminist lawyer to do when her back is up against the wall? Apparently, the answer is to dream about asking deceased Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for advice. That is exactly what happened for the second week in a row in Paramount+’s (formerly CBS All-Access) The Good Fight. Last week’s episode included lawyer Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) hallucinating conversations…
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Karen Townsend | July 29, 2021
It’s not easy being Diane Lockhart in Season Five of Paramount+’s The Good Fight. The liberal feminist lawyer, a name partner in a well-established black Chicago law firm, is conflicted because of major attacks of white liberal guilt. She is struggling with two questions – should she step aside as a white name partner of a historically black law firm and can her marriage to a conservative Trump…