In ‘The Underground Railroad,’ the South African star gave one of the TV’s most
powerful performances—and made history. Now, with Viola Davis, Mbedu heads back
home.
Netflix’s new relative of “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” in which two organizing
influencers transform Khloé Kardashian’s garage and regular families’ clutter,
feels like just another marketing channel.
This dispersal of community is a necessary thing, with an eeriness that is
actual and conceptual and metaphorical: a symptom of a new approach to public
space.
The premise of the Netflix show is promoted as a utopian innovation. “Your
relationship will begin by forming an intimate bond with nothing to distract
you,” a co-host, Nick Lachey, says.
There are few items of clothing as socially, politically and racially charged as
the hoodie. It has come to represent a modern day parable of social inequality,
Programs on WE tv, AMC, Netflix, and Hulu offer celebrity chat, in-depth
analysis of landmark songs, a reality competition, and a dramatized look at the
making of one of the genre’s titans.
The final episode of Season 2 deconstructs the characters’ ways of speaking
power into existence. When they try to talk normally, they find that they have
reached their limit.
The movie knows a thing that is, apparently, rather difficult to say: that the
system of higher learning in the United States is a scam at its essence.
“Audience of One,” by James Poniewozik, identifies Donald Trump as a postmodern
feeler, who intuits and responds to the stimuli of electronic media with the
dark brilliance of an idiot savant.
The series presents the view that Fox News programming is essentially a
propagandistic edit of Ailes’s own conservatism—nakedly self-interested, tacitly
white supremacist, and theatrically aggrieved.