Orji’s differences with her character felt like a joke at first, but now? “I get it, Lord; I see what you’re doing!”
Eloise Blondiau
Producer
Eloise Blondiau was a producer at America from 2016 to 2019. She produced "The Examen with Fr. James Martin"; "Inside the Vatican"; "Jesuitical"; and "Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church." She is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Theresa May’s abandonment of human rights plays into terrorists’ hands
At the end of her election campaign, the British prime minister made ominous comments about curtailing civil liberties.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
While “Master of None” looks for love, “Catastrophe” finds it.
In the hyper-curated, beautiful world that Dev lives in, a scene that conveys the touching, ugly stubbornness of marriage seems totally impossible.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Reflecting on the frightening lessons of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
If anyone doubted the damage a shallow, sanitized Marian ideal of womanhood could inflict—on women, on faith and on the church—Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ shows us.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Reza Aslan’s ‘Believer’ and the hazy line between education and entertainment
In “Believer with Reza Aslan,” a scholar presents a part as indicative of the whole.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Scientology deserves your compassion: An interview with filmmaker Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux’s curiosity, open-mindedness and consternation is exactly why his films are successful; he will never run out of questions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
A British Cult of Personality takes on the Cult of Scientology
“His attempts to gain access to the church even led Scientologists to set their own cameramen on Theroux, taunting him that they were making a documentary, too.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
An opportunity lost: What Catholics actually wanted to hear at Mass last weekend
80 percent of poll respondents agreed that not enough was done in their parishes to address the ongoing political upheaval.
Posted inArts & Culture
Lemony Snicket’s tales for children take children seriously
As in real life, in Netflix’s adaptation unfortunate events take their course, punctuated by victories great and small, ad infinitum.
Posted inArts & Culture
Bruce Springsteen experienced mental health issues. That should enrich your appreciation of him.
News that Springsteen has experienced mental health issues should not disappoint fans, but enrich how they understand a musical legend.