The theme of “not measuring up” is a major component of Marvel’s latest Disney+ series, “Loki.”
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‘Father Ted’ poked fun at Catholic Ireland, but only an audience steeped in faith would appreciate it
“Father Ted” can be seen as both a relic of an Irish moment and a humorous, but serious, argument against the confessional state.
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Dear Conan O’Brien: Late night television didn’t deserve you.
Conan never did quite fit in, and I mean that in the best possible way.
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‘The Chosen’ is the Jesus TV show your very Catholic aunt keeps telling you to watch. And you should.
The show’s most important feature is that it portrays the characters as human—especially Jesus.
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‘Friends’ was the escapist sitcom you weren’t embarrassed to love
“The Reunion’’ shows “Friends” for the fantasy that it always was, while at the same time showing what sustained and continues to sustain that fantasy: the shared affection, admiration and respect of six very talented actors.
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From 1994: Father James Martin reviews a new little show called ‘Friends.’
James Martin S.J.’s 1994 review of ‘Friends,’ published when it first aired.
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Amazon’s ‘Underground Railroad’ teaches the Black history we do not know well enough
The series executes a breathtaking high-wire act, threading speculative fiction a history most of us still do not know well enough.
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Too many Americans are forgotten or misunderstood. ‘Our Towns’ tries to change that.
“People’s lives are complicated every place you look, and just as complicated as your own life is,” says author and director James Fallows.
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‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ and what it means to be a Black superhero
The show attempts to juggle a number of different issues and themes, but chief among them is a commitment to being a meditation on modern racial animus in the United States, and it does not shy away from controversial topics and ideas.
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As a 90s kid, I loved Disney’s ‘So Weird’ for its use of faith, sacrifice and the paranormal. As an adult, I still do.
As a kid, my favorite show was about death. Strangest of all, I watched it on the Disney Channel.