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Once upon a time, TV was a passive experience. You turned it on, plopped down on the couch, and let the story unfold without lifting a finger. But then came shows like Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, which flipped the script and handed the reins to the audience. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (Netflix/Screenshot) Suddenly, viewers were making decisions […]
Blue Bloods only has three episodes left before it leaves the airwaves forever. This is heartbreaking for a lot of reasons, but the reason that hurts the most is that we’ll lose the family aspect. The Blue Bloods phenomenon is partially due to its focus on a family of cops rather than just the case […]
Love him or hate him, Robert De Niro is stepping into uncharted territory: episodic television. And he’s doing it in a way only De Niro can — by playing a former U.S. president caught in the chaos of a devastating cyberattack in Netflix’s Zero Day. Premiering February 20, 2025, the six-episode limited series finds De […]
As Grey’s fans prepare to say goodbye to two more brilliant Grey Sloan doctors, we can’t help but notice a fascinating trend throughout the show’s impressive run. Pediatric surgeons leave Grey Sloan frequently, giving many actors the perfect exit to leave the show with an open-ended storyline should they want to return. Should we assume […]
In difficult times, young adults need shows about them more than ever. Adolescence and early adulthood are challenging no matter what’s going on in a young person’s life, and doubly so when they’re growing up in a high-stress, polarized environment. TV gets a lot of things right about young people, though it still misses the […]
There are sports dramas, and then there’s Friday Night Lights. While All American and other series have explored the heightened drama that unfolds on the gridiron and in the locker room, no show in modern history has consistently done so with as much heart as FNL. ESPN columnist Bill Simmons once hailed it as “the […]
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you know that Outer Banks delivered one hell of a cliffhanger by the end of Outer Banks Season 4, and to say people aren’t pleased would be an understatement. No, we’re still not over the decision to write out JJ Maybank, the Pogue Prince, if you will, and we […]
このページを 日本語 で読む The run-up to the 2025 spring labor negotiations (shunto) has begun. Rengo (the Japan Trade Union Confederation) has announced its intention to set a “6% or more” target for increasing wages at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The overall wage hike target, including at large companies, will remain at “5% or more.” […]
United States President-elect Donald J Trump has criticized the current President Joe Biden administration over inflation and other issues. Moreover, he has indicated his intention to fundamentally change US economic policy. Apparently, the president-elect strongly believes that the only way to make America great again is to strengthen the economy. Also, the rise of China […]
Doomer TV is an odd sort of fictional proof that in the land of the free and the home of the brave, things can still go south quickly. Most people in America have never experienced the hardship of third-world nations, their economies, or totalitarian despotism. Seneca, a philosopher and satirist in ancient Rome, put it […]