Posts Tagged ‘Television’

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Roblog: Robots Ready for Their Close-Ups

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Roblog is a weekly column dedicated to understanding the world of robotics. If science fiction is right and the impending robot apocalypse is real, it can’t hurt to be prepared. Come back every Wednesday for a new blog of robot rants.

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Apr 25, 2012 | 1 Response

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The MadCap: “Far Away Places”

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What a trip. Yes, this week’s episode was chock full of trips—physical, metaphorical, and psychedelic. The characters moved from place to place, in and out of reality, and in and out [...]

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Apr 25, 2012 | Leave a response

Pete is dressed in un-masculine colors and unflattering fits to highlight his aging and emasculation. Photo via AMC.

The MadCap: “Signal 30″

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Themes of emasculation were strong in this week’s installment of Mad Men, with fights, competition, and insecurity abounding between the show’s men. Women were curiously in power throughout the episode, in [...]

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Apr 17, 2012 | Leave a response

Bent, now being ignored by NBC! | Promotional photo courtesy of NBC

NBC’s ‘Bent’: Completely Ignored and Equally Delightful

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In case you didn’t already know (and you probably do), NBC isn’t exactly the big network on campus. Still struggling to dig its way out of fourth place, the National Broadcasting [...]

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Mar 30, 2012 | Leave a response

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Insert “Smash” Pun Here: NBC’s Smash

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It’s inevitable that NBC’s new drama Smash will be incessantly compared to FOX’s mega-hit Glee. That’s understandable, but the two shows really couldn’t be more different. Smash is a much [...]

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Jan 24, 2012 | Leave a response

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How Mad Men Turns Black Characters into Real People

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I showed up at the front steps of 138 Mountfort Street, home to BU’s African-American Studies Department, on Tuesday afternoon to attend Professor Deborah L. Jaramillo’s lecture, “Black Stories/White Series: [...]

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Dec 8, 2011 | 5 Responses

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YouTube: The Future of Television?

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YouTube: the land of the free and the home of infinite cat videos. It’s where we all got our first taste of “Shoes,” the baby singing “Hey Jude,” and “Charlie [...]

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Nov 8, 2011 | Leave a response

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The Gleecap: “Pot O’ Gold”

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The Gleecap is a brand new column dedicated to recap and review the zany antics that occur in each episode of the television show Glee. Blog posts will be released each Wednesday following [...]

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Nov 2, 2011 | Leave a response

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On Location Vacations: The Science of Stalking

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We are a generation of stalkers. Between ‘creeping’ on a friend’s Facebook photos, following someone like the Kardashians on Twitter, and reblogging trendy pictures on Tumblr, those in their teens [...]

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Sep 30, 2011 | 1 Response

The Best Show You’re Not Watching: “Sons of Anarchy”

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F/X’s “Sons of Anarchy” is a grit-fueled, in your face wedge of backwater California underbelly.  Let me paint you a picture: stagnant San Joaquin Valley town called Charming, ruled by [...]

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Aug 4, 2010 | Leave a response