The Season 2 premiere of Supergirl, “The Adventures of Supergirl,” has a lot of stories to tell. I don’t just mean the handful of plot threads it barrels through from last season and all the new ones introduced but also the three meta-stories it has to convey. Those stories are: Supergirl, having moved from CBS to […]
Just Another Unfortunate Thing: On Paul Qui and Redemption
Back in March of this year, not long after news broke that celebrity chef Paul Qui had been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend and endangering her child, Dan Solomon wrote a piece in Texas Monthly confronting the narrative that emerges around abuse and abusers, arguing in its headline that “How we talk about Paul Qui’s […]
“The Day Tennyson Died” Indicates That Season Three Might Be Penny Dreadful’s Best
Penny Dreadful Season 3 Episode 1 “The Day Tennyson Died” Let’s get it out of the way: Dracula has arrived. Penny Dreadful started out as a strange, Gothic adventure, throwing audiences right into the world of vampires, Egyptian magic and a collection of characters from Gothic and Victorian literature, or at least those that fit […]
Supergirl’s Season Finale Proves There Are “Better Angels” In All Of Us
So even at this late date, CBS hasn’t announced whether or not Supergirl has been renewed. That’s deeply, deeply unfortunate. While the naysayer could just write it off as yet another unfortunate reminder of Hollywood’s obsession with superheroes, to those who actually watched the show and paid attention, it’s obvious this show is serving a […]
Supergirl Juggles “Myriad” Threads But Can’t Make Them All Stick
After taking a week off to allow us all to recover from the wonderfulness that was “World’s Finest,” Supergirl is back with its penultimate episode, “Myriad.” With its finale next week, the show has a lot to get through–or at least a lot to both resolve and tease out for a potential next season (the […]
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