Stephanie Rose
Popfilter Special Report
The Little Mermaid: Feminist Horror Story or Trans Hero? Disney Princess movies have attracted some, albeit understandable, antagonism based on the messages of the stories. These criticisms are playfully reductionist views that are arrived at by boiling down what the hero’s journey was all about. They are probably best represented by a series of pithy…
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Round 3 JANE THE VIRGIN VS THE AFFAIR When the writers at the PopFilter headquarters, or the hosts of the various PopFilter podcasts, have to review a television show based only on the pilot they form an opinion filled with caveats and asterisks. There’s no way of knowing what changes the show will…
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Round Three UNCLE VS JANE THE VIRGIN Click here to see the Bracket (This round compares the first three episodes of Jane the Virgin and Uncle) Jane the Virgin is telenovela whose premise involves a virgin who gets accidentally gets artificially inseminated. Uncle is about a slovenly dickhead who redeems himself by connecting with…
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ROUND TWO Uncle vs Friends of the People I can’t explain my resistance to Uncle. Maybe it’s because I hate British people, and I’ve never had the balls to admit it until now. Maybe I think it’s unfair how they do their television, and it gives them an unfair advantage in the tournament (they…
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Round One FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE VS THE MCCARTHYS See the bracket at http://challonge.com/popfilter We’ve reached the last bout in round one. We are only five short articles away from determining a winner. Which probably won’t be either one of these shows. Here’s why… The McCarthys is about a sports loving, Irish-Catholic family living…
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ROUND TWO MIKE TYSON’S MYSTERIES VS JANE THE VIRGIN See the bracket at http://challonge.com/popfilter (This article compares the first two episodes of Jane the Virgin and Mike Tyson’s Mysteries) This week’s pairing is about as unfairly matched as if Mike Tyson put on gloves and actually boxed Jane. That’s also the only scenario…
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Round 3 THE AFFAIR VS SURVIVOR’S REMORSE Once the story of the third episode of Survivor’s Remorse gets going, there’s a scene that’s jarring compared to the rest of the episodes. A Make-a-Wish kid tells NBA superstar Cam Calloway that he better fill his face with pussy, or he will tell the world that…
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Round 1 UNCLE VS CONSTANTINE See the bracket here!!! Throughout this New Fall TV Tournament, we’ve talked a lot about pilots having to prove to you that you’ve seen (and liked) things like them before, and then – within the same episode – prove to you how they are different, and hopefully…
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Round 1 BENCHED VS MIKE TYSON’S MYSTERIES Eliza Coupe (Happy Endings), Jay Harrington (Better Off Ted), Oscar Nunez (The Office), and Maria Bamford is as much of a head start as a one camera sitcom can ask for. And it isn’t like Benched squanders all of the good will it is afforded by that…
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ROUND 2 THE AFFAIR VS THE FLASH See the bracket!!! I know that The Affair isn’t getting the kind of buzz that Showtime was probably hoping for, but I seriously didn’t learn until I just recently watched the first two episodes back-to-back that THIS SHOW IS MCNULTY VS RAWLS. I feel let down…
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