The return of the true teen drama — because most high school students probably aren’t living in the world of Euphoria — will continue as Universal Television begins developing a revival of Friday Night Lights. The football-focused series ran for five seasons between 2006 and 2011. Now, director Peter Berg, …
Read More »How 'Scandal' and 'Watchmen' Prepared Us for Kamala Harris' Candidacy
Remember what political and cultural discourse was like before everything revolved around figuring out how a cruel dilettante from Queens managed to become president of the United States? I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately with the rise of the presidential campaign of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Finally, …
Read More »How the 2007-08 Writers' Strike Changed 'The Office' and 'Breaking Bad'
The last time the Writers Guild of America went on strike against the Hollywood studios was in November 2007, which feels like a million generations ago. George W. Bush was still president; the broadcast networks still had an enormous footprint on the pop-culture landscape; and House of Cards, the first …
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