This is the term that always comes to mind for me as well, particularly from S2 onwards; I wonder how we might play this out from just the visuals? I'm thinking of, for example, the show's uses of music (classical pieces that each seem to refere ...
I haven't seen The Good Wife, but I agree about Buffy- they share a sense that death has fallout, that people grieve and don't move on so easily, and yes, yes, Abigail is so poignant in this sense. I half feel like they were trying to see what t ...
As KT says, the possibilities for thinking about embodied, experiential fandom are myriad here. This actually puts me in mind of- tangentially- the temporary Pub Sherlock Holmes that publisher Haga Shoten puts together once or twice a year in Japan, with ...
I agree completely with what you say about how Fuller deals in affect; where so much of 'quality TV' is predicated on either critical or ironic (arguably masculinist) distance, Fuller's worlds are first and foremost about emotional investme ...
In all honesty, I haven't yet watched it. And I agree, he's very much working in a gothic frame. As Allison says, Frankenstein is one of its clearest antecedents, but so too are things like The Phantom of the Opera and all those stories where we ...
In a way, I feel like- to echo what you've written- he takes death seriously throughout his work; which is to say, if we take the scene from Mockingbird Lane, which is arguably parodic and, as such, not serious, there were two ways to play it an subs ...
IS AMAZING. This is tangential to the discussion, but I'm amazed by how he fully becomes a character in his own right, and by the end a terrifying force to be reckoned with- it's saying something when, in the end, it's Chilton's threat ...
In truth, for me, Fuller-as-showrunner-auteur is something I kind of struggle with (in an early draft of this, I think I went so far to say that he defied typical auteurist understandings). On the one hand, these themes that recur throughout the works of ...
This is the problem with thoughts-in-progress; in the two weeks since I wrote this, I've been mulling it over and think I've missed something really critical here. Death does, indeed, punctuate Fuller's body of work, and particularly in how ...
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I haven’t seen The Good Wife,
As KT says, the possibilities
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