The Moral Ambiguity of Game of Thrones

No television show aggrieves the easily aggrieved more than HBO’s Game of Thrones, a show based on George R. R. Martin’s popular book series. Cultural liberals find in it the most vulgar sexism, hypermasculinity, and... Read More
Master of None Masters Non-Confrontational Religious Disaffiliation

[WARNING: Contains plot details of Season 2, Episode 3] For many American nontheists, the actual act of coming out as a humanist, atheist, agnostic, or some other form of nonbeliever can be painful, but isn’t... Read More
TV Review: The Handmaid’s Tale

[Spoiler alert: this review contains extensive plot details] The first thing the viewer notices in the Hulu TV series adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is how “trains-running-on-time” the theocracy is. As with Nazi Germany, everything... Read More
Focus on the Family Brings Back Christian Magazine for Teen Girls

Despite nineteen years of self-described success, Focus on the Family stopped producing Brio, its print magazine for teenage girls and their parents, in 2009 along with Breakaway, the equivalent publication for boys. Now, after an... Read More
Bill Nye Saves the World: “It’s Not Magic, it’s Science!”

Bill Nye’s classic program, Bill Nye the Science Guy, was a childhood staple of many millennials. Some of the best days in school were the ones where a television was rolled into the classroom and... Read More
TV Review: Reza Aslan’s Believer

The tone of Reza Aslan’s new television series Believer is a curious mixture of snobbishness and inclusivity. In it, the author and religious scholar immerses himself in some of the more markedly idiosyncratic religious faiths of the... Read More
TV Review: The Kids of Bob’s Burgers Invent a New Religion

Bob’s Burgers is a family-friendly animated sitcom on Fox you may have heard of but likely haven’t watched. With competition from the still-popular Family Guy and The Simpsons, a show about two parents and their... Read More