Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
You just never know how you’re going to meet that someone special. Maybe you’ll meet because she made fun of you and your city on her hit television show. How’s that for a “meet cute?” Let’s back up a little: On her show “The Mindy Project,” Dr. Mindy Lahiri, played by star Mindy Kaling, quips…
In a world of fake news and alternative facts, chyrons are setting the record straight. The tiny, digital, almost always “Breaking News”-adorned captions superimposed on the bottom of screens during newscasts were historically used to introduce the topic that reporters or political figures are addressing for audiences tuning in after the start of a segment. In other words, they’re usually unimportant…
What the hell is going on, here? I thought the show about the guys breaking out of prison ended like eight years ago. Now I am seeing commercials that are all like This Tuesday … [grim men looking at each other through chain-link fence] … on Fox … [sooty-faced men being serious] … you can…
On vacation. Photo: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images Embattled Fox News host Bill O’Reilly announced tonight that he is taking a vacation. O’Reilly’s decision to go off the air in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal and advertiser boycott arguably has the appearance of a suspension, but O’Reilly worked to dispel that notion. He announced…
Cover Photo Bill O’Reilly, Fox News’s top-rated host, has faced a series of sexual harassment allegations going back years. Credit Robert Wright for The New York Times Bill O’Reilly Thrives at Fox News, Even as Harassment Settlements Add Up About $13 million has been paid out over the years to address complaints from women about…
ReBoot, in many ways, was a show that belonged to its time. The series about a group of guardians that lived inside a computer mainframe and protected users from a series of viruses was considered almost revolutionary considering the 3D animation that went into it and the story’s setting. It’s one of the few shows…
Start Article Post Content “Imaginary Mary” is a show about an adult woman with a fuzzy, CGI imaginary friend — which is to say, “Imaginary Mary,” right out of the gate, is a show that makes no sense. Children have imaginary friends; not adults with 401ks and mortgages. The contrast between Alice (Jenna Elfman)’s sophisticated…
When Shadow Moon is released from prison, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday and a storm begins to brew. Little does Shadow know, this storm will change the course of his entire life. Left adrift by the recent, tragic death of his wife, and suddenly hired as Mr. Wednesday’s bodyguard, Shadow finds himself in…
GIF Every single bit of footage that Starz releases for American Gods makes us even more feverishly excited for the show. The latest trailer is jam-packed with gods who look deceptively normal but are, as the trailer notes, soon to entangle protagonist Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) in “some really weird shit.” That seems to be…
Rachel Maddow had the goods, but she oversold them.MSNBC At 7:36 pm Tuesday night, Rachel Maddow tweeted “BREAKING: We’ve got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC. (Seriously),” sending the internet into a frenzy of theorizing. Did Maddow have Donald Trump’s tax returns or just one of the Trumps’ tax returns? Could this be…