The Syrian refugee crisis formed the topic du jour of Sunday night’s edition of CBS’s Madam Secretary. Though they went with Libyan refugees in the episode titled ‘Hijriyyah’, the plot line remains the same.
Interesting to note that at no time did the episode mention the fact that Hillary Clinton, the inspiration for this show, designed our overthrow of Gaddafi. Without which there would likely…
True to millennial form, literature and history must be erased and discarded in order to preserve the “safe zone” and psychological well-being of the delicate “skulls full of mush.” Also true to form, the matter cannot be left to the kids of the school to decide whether or not they want to attend the play. Oh no, the matter must be decided by the “Honor Board,” which will decide what is best for…
On Monday night’s episode of The Fosters, titled ‘EQ’, the show dealt with the urge that most people feel after watching an episode of the ABC Freeform drama: suicide.
Specifically, the show centered on an effort at the high school to ban Romeo & Juliet. You know, because two people in a made-up story hundreds of years ago killed themselves. And that might lead to 21st Century kids with…
So, I don’t really know how to describe this rap battle scene from CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend other than to say it may be one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen. In the scene, from Monday night’s episode titled ‘Josh and I Go To Los Angeles!’, Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) meets the opposing counsel in her upcoming class action lawsuit, only to find out that their lead lawyer is her childhood rival. A…
Wednesday night, between Blackish and Chicago PD, police public relations on network television did not have a banner day. On Chicago PD, in an episode titled ‘The Cases That Need to be Solved,’ the shooting death of a six year old African-American boy causes a local black Reverend to visit the investigation’s lead detective, Voight (Jason Beghe), over tensions between the gang unit and the…
The two week hiatus that ABC’s Blackish took from any discernible bias or controversy came to a sudden and violent end on Wednesday night, in an episode titled ‘Hope’. Billed as a “very special episode,” the Johnson family gathers around the television set and takes the audience through the experience of what it’s like to be a black family watching the verdict in a case of police brutality…
Dre: The system is rigged against us.
Bow: Maybe it is, Dre. But I don't want to feel like my kids are living in a world that is so flawed that they can't have any hope.
Dre: Oh, so you want to talk about hope, Bow? Obama ran on hope. Remember when he got elected, and -- and we felt like maybe, just maybe, we got out of that bad place and made it to a good place? That the whole country was…
The two week hiatus that ABC’s Blackish took from any discernible bias or controversy came to a sudden and violent end on Wednesday night, in an episode titled ‘Hope’. Billed as a “very special episode,” the Johnson family gathers around the television set and takes the audience through the experience of what it’s like to be a black family watching the verdict in a case of police brutality…
Mom: Okay, obviously I am anti-police brutality. But that doesn't mean I have to be anti-the-police. Look, 25% of these suspects are unarmed, which is horrible. But that means that 75% of them were armed. The police have to deal with that every day.
Son: I guess what you're saying makes sense, but isn't that their job, Mom? I mean, if you killed one out of every four of your patients, wouldn't…
So, as we have discussed before, Showtime’s Billions does not shy away from the dramatic. Though, at times they may shy away from telling the absolute truth. In a cleverly done scene, titled ‘The Deal’ this week’s show switches back and forth from U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhodes (Paul Giamatti) grilling the man he’s just arrested and billionaire bad boy Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis), the man’s employer…