UnReal looks at reality TV from backstage
Reality television is usually labeled a guilty pleasure. Why guilty? We tend to derive pleasure from watching petty but vicious competition and a range of emotional breakdowns and breakthroughs. (Though,…
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‘Mad Men’ ends with whimper, not bang
Final seasons of American television, as ordered by no one and yet repeated ad nauseam, tend to feature the same cinematic tropes: parades of misplaced pathos, the tiresome retreat of…