25 Little Known Facts About Buffy the Vampire Slayer
by: Nico Lang 1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer came out at an interesting time in the horror genre. Joss Whedon stated that he wrote Buffy as a response to the helpless damsels in distress […]
Category Archives: TV
Girls (Without Color): How Lena Dunham Addresses Race
by Ange Concepcion Let’s suppose I tell you there’s a show about a 20-something year old college educated female, Hannah, newly cut off from her parents, set in New York […]
We’re Not Really Going To Kill The Heckler: A Defense of Crass Humor
by: Mariann Devlin I’m hard to offend. Even when I do draw the line between funny and not-funny, it’s usually on account of the joke being tired and unoriginal, not […]
Home Sweet Homeland: The Marriage of Politics and Media
by: Kera Mouge Lebanon’s Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud threatened to sue the producers of American television series “Homeland” on October 19, 2012 for their negative depiction of Beirut as a […]
What Responses to Hurricane Sandy Tell Us
by: Khai Devon Over the past week or so, I’ve been glued to my Facebook news feed, real news feeds and texts from my friends in New York, Maryland and […]
Sympathy for the Past: Why I Hate Ryan Murphy
by: Timothy O. My last post for IOW raged on The New Normal. Our comrade, Nico, produced an exceptional piece for the Huffington Post on a similar distaste for TNN. […]
Not Bullying Awareness: A Response to Wisconsin News Anchor Jennifer Livingston
by: J.N. Reyna By now, many of you have seen the video of La Crosse, Wisconsin’s WKBT News anchor Jennifer Livingston responding on air to an email she received from a viewer. In […]
A Teachable Moment: What I Learned From Auditioning for RuPaul’s Drag Race
by: Precious Jewel For the last three years RuPaul’s Drag Race has occupied my mind as a potential and even ideal pulpit from which my worldwide tele-trans-evangelist ministry would be […]
The New Normal: Racist, Homophobic and Unfunny
by: Timothy I don’t really talk about TV other than to say that it is brilliant because it also happens to be Louie and/or RuPaul’s Drag Race. But allow me to […]
Counting with the Count: Memories of Jerry Nelson
by: Avrohom Steinberg One, ha, ha, ha! One of my most vivid memories as a child is of me and my brother sitting on the floor of my parent’s bedroom […]
