For a television series to make truly brilliant binge watching it has to be equal parts well written/produced/etc and guilty pleasure. That might, at first glance, seem contradictory. If it is a guilty pleasure, surely it couldn’t also be well ...
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John Oliver is my new hero. I loved him on Community but I didn’t catch any of his appearances on The Daily Show. Now that he has his own series on HBO (and let’s face it, who else would have him?), Last Week Tonight ...
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In 1977, an Australian woman set off on a 1,700-mile journey from Alice Springs to the west coast of Australia – with four camels and her dog. Some people simply thought she was crazy, others assumed she would be dead ...
Read More »Censorship, privacy, and freedom in popular culture
I took a break from my illness-induced comatose existence on the sofa on Friday evening to feel outraged by an article on The Guardian discussing our complete lack of privacy in this day and age. Since the US Government passed ...
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