Excellent piece, Nina-- I won't try to add to the smart commentary already offered by you and others, but really neat way of thinking of overflow as having purchase and effects outside the realm of textual play ...
I've become quite the fan of Flashpoint. I think its look, structure, and genre are all very comfortable for the American audience, but I'm intrigued by how it plays with the genre. Most importantly, each episode spends considerably more time ex ...
To answer your question, I actually came to the show by chance, not design (and the longtime holdover of a boyish fascination with snipers didn't hurt either), and I was really enjoying it before it struck me that this was Toronto. I also had a deja- ...
Nice post, Max. Like you, I was interested to see how little an issue payment for promos became-- publicly-- during the strike. Instead, the public face was all about royalties for DVD and online viewing. But when some shows are offering smart, original c ...
The filming here is quite masterful, pitting, as it does, the lone Canadian talking to the huge voiceless, seemingly timeless and immoveable American structures-- a nice visual reminder of the relatively disempowered position from which Canadians, other n ...
The clip is shocking for the remarkably stupid last few seconds: "But will it influence young people to vote?" poses that voting is all that matters, as if politics and political involvement weren't about *thinking* first and foremost. In t ...
As you say, Jeff, the inspired moment is when that dude walks down the beach. He seems like someone bemused to see such losers, but the act of eating the shrimp complicates things (or like the When Harry Met Sally "I'll have what she's havi ...
Opportune timing, Avi-- I was on the subway the other day, and madly scrawled down all the marketing slogans in a Tudors-full subway car, since I was amazed by how much Showtime seemed to be feminizing the show, as a sort of anti-Rome. Already, HBO's ...
From Vancouver, BC (evidently the real final resting place of MLK, I see)... Tough questions, Avi. On one hand, I think you might be expecting too much for a radical institutional analysis to take front and center in a comedy show, and I'm inclined t ...
Viveca, I think irony would be considerably more "red" if the country and its power base were considerably more "blue." Irony, after all, tends to cut at the way things are, and needs to do so for it to feel like it matters. Hence, for ...
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No Promo Payments
The filming here is quite
The clip is shocking for the
As you say, Jeff, the
Opportune timing, Avi -- I
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Viveca, I think irony would
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