In ‘Good Omens,’ an uncommon take on the end of days
Could it be that humans are lovable even with all our faults?
These documentaries to change your Earthly perspective
Get down to Earth with ‘Behind the Curve’ and ‘One Strange Rock.’
Love one another?
If I love all the selves housed within me, including the flawed, human, insecure ones, then why would I need to hate you?
A woman at last
In Wonder Woman, there are moments so uncommonly witnessed in film that the audience can almost hear paradigms shifting, like giant tectonic plates of cultural attitudes grating over one another as they struggle to realign. Of course, such shifts should have happened long ago, or should have never been needed at all, and there have been […]
Journalism as an act of grace
In fourth grade, to Sister Clarita at St. Raphael’s Elementary School, I announced I would be a writer. Had I known about jobs with more status and better pay, I might have announced my intention to become a chief financial officer of a reality television network, but c’est la vie. I attended journalism school in the […]
A cancelled series shows women’s inequality is still at work
Once upon a time, in 1969, women weren’t “allowed” to wear slacks at the office. This wasn’t for modesty—miniskirts and tight dresses were fine, 9–5. The dress code was to keep gender differences clearly delineated, as in the classic insult to assertive wives: “She wears the pants in that family.” When the chino ceiling finally […]
Another reason to love ‘Gilmore Girls’
Oh, to live in Stars Hollow, where crabby but hunky Luke runs the diner, quirky Kirk holds a long string of peculiar jobs, and a single mother and her daughter can be seen as a legitimate and respectable family. On television and in film, single mothers are too often portrayed as hapless victims, struggling to […]