This review is based on the first four episodes of the new Star Trek series, and CONTAINS SPOILERS for the show up until that point. Star Trek: Discovery starts with a symbol. It is a... Read More

For years, Americans have enjoyed TV programs from Great Britain (Downton Abbey, Sherlock, Doctor Who), New Zealand (Flight of the Concords), and countless other countries around the world. For some reason though, Australian TV shows... Read More

Season seven of Game of Thrones is over. Among fans of the show, there’s been a general sense of both disappointment and relief. Disappointment because with this season the series has undeniably abandoned what in... Read More

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

[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

[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

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