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She’s Gonna Make It After All: Queen of the South

By Lance Charnes

July 14, 2016

In 1970, TV gave us the tale of a spunky, single young woman who moves to the big city and finds career success, friendship, and love, while rising through a cutthroat business and having to navigate the many men in her work and private lives. Her name was Mary, and there’s now a statue of…

Vive la Résistance: Colony

By Lance Charnes

February 25, 2016

Alien invasions on the big and small screens have rarely been about aliens. They’re usually metaphors for whatever the scare-of-the-year happens to be: Nazis, communism, religion, lack of religion, race, colonialism, etc. Today’s scare-of-the-decade is terrorism and our response to it. What’s the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter? What’s the difference between…