“Work It” and the “Man-cession”
January 5, 2012 by Lindsay Beyerstein · 1 Comment
“Work It,” an ABC sitcom about two unemployed buddies (a car salesman and a mechanic), who dress in drag in order to land jobs as pharmaceutical sales reps, premiered on Tuesday night. According ...Read More
ABC’s “Work It” Only Works at Hurting Trans People
December 20, 2011 by Genny Beemyn and Sue Rankin · 2 Comments
If you’ve watched ABC lately, you have probably been bombarded with ads for its new, critically-derided comedy, Work It, in which two unemployed men cross-dress in order to obtain jobs as female ...Read More
8 Obnoxious Cliches about Men, Women and Sex in Otherwise Good TV Shows
November 29, 2011 by Amanda Marcotte · 26 Comments
Throughout most of its history, the general trend of television has been sexist, with lots of hysterical women driving dramas and lots of eye-rolling jokes about women being nags and prudes filling ...Read More
What a Difference a Strong Snow White Makes
November 13, 2011 by Natalie Wilson · 15 Comments
Two new fall TV shows, Once Upon a Time and Grimm, blend the real world with the world of fairy tales–but there the similarities stop. The two are radically different, especially in their representations ...Read More
The Women of “Women, War and Peace”
November 7, 2011 by Michele Kort · Leave a Comment
The remarkable five-part PBS series Women, War and Peace concludes on Tuesday, November 8 with War Redefined, the capstone piece that brings together the issues brought up in the previous films about ...Read More
How Rachel Maddow Makes Queer History
October 31, 2011 by Amy Borsuk · 17 Comments
What’s sexier than a brilliant, Internet-savvy, queer, liberal prime-time news host with an Oxford University degree? Yeah, I can’t think of anything either. Since her show on MSNBC began in 2008 ...Read More
Danish Fantasy TV Becomes Reality–Can It Work Its Magic in the U.S.?
October 28, 2011 by Ellen Snortland · Leave a Comment
On the heels of the U.S. success of the Danish series Forbrydelsen (remade by AMC as The Killing), Danish television hit Borgen will premiere in the U.S. this weekend. Borgen is billed as a Danish ...Read More
Rape as a Weapon of War
October 10, 2011 by Natalie Wilson · 1 Comment
On October 11, PBS will kick off its new five-part series Women, War, and Peace, executive-produced by Abigail Disney, Gini Reticker and Pamela Hogan. I interviewed Peggy Kuo, a war-crimes prosecutor ...Read More
An Ex-Bunny Bids a Not-So-Fond Goodbye to NBC’S Playboy Club
October 6, 2011 by Lili Bee · 3 Comments
NBC has officially pulled the plug on the highly promoted new series The Playboy Club after airing only three episodes. The reason given? Poor ratings, which caused seven major advertisers to withdraw ...Read More
Pan Am: Will Women Take Flight?
September 30, 2011 by Natalie Wilson · 14 Comments
Though I agree with Nancy Franklin of the New Yorker that you can’t judge a show by its pilot, I would counter that, in the case of Pan Am, there is quite a bit we can glean from the season opener. ...Read More
