Editor’s Note: Boob Tube

Editor’s Note: Boob Tube

Recently, on that social media site and time-suck known as Twitter, film critic Miriam Bale asked her female followers: “What is one of your earliest feminist stirrings from watching movies (or TV)?” The query was notable not only because of the swift responses...
Rape on The CW: Veronica Mars and Sexual Assault

Rape on The CW: Veronica Mars and Sexual Assault

“You wanna know how I lost my virginity? So do I.” And so, less than 21 minutes into the pilot episode of the show’s first season, we know this about Veronica Mars (played by Kristen Bell): on top of being a whip-smart, hard-working (daughter of a) private...
Queer Dimensions and The Gender-Fluid Fantasy of Adventure Time

Queer Dimensions and The Gender-Fluid Fantasy of Adventure Time

The cartoon world of showrunner Pendleton Ward’s Adventure Time has been lauded as one of the most feminist, genderqueer, and generally progressive in all of modern children’s television. Hugely popular and widely acclaimed, the show follows the adventures...
Love & Hip Hop in the Time of Shonda Rhimes

Love & Hip Hop in the Time of Shonda Rhimes

Reality television has irrevocably damaged society’s perception of black women. Or it hasn’t—it depends who you ask. Over the last decade, reality television’s place in the larger TV landscape has morphed, stretched and expanded to make room for...