Since its earliest days, television has profitably mined physicians, hospitals, and stethoscopes for a steady stream of reliably popular medical dramas. But...
Culture in Context
What is it about an inquisitive little wooden puppet that dreams of “being a real boy” that pulls at our heartstrings? Is it his innocent wonder at the world...
A television series doesn’t have to tell all the truths about life, so it’s forgivable that Netflix’s Firefly Lane is a bit myopic in its narrative of two...
Author Wendell Berry famously lives in Henry County, Kentucky, which went for presidential nominee Donald Trump by a 46 percent margin in 2020. Still, Berry...
Recently, I taught a high school theology class on the first story of creation in Genesis, Chapter 1. Thankfully, I was influenced by biblical scholar and...
Heartland is a family show without corruption or treachery, a cowboy show that focuses on women, and a western show set not in the United States but in...
In the very first episode of the Hulu/FX dramedy series Reservation Dogs, four teenaged Native Americans gather to mark the first anniversary of their friend’s...
Certain scientific concepts can capture the public’s imagination and take on a life of their own. This is commonplace in science fiction where time travel, the...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, work-life balance was a term corporations used to lure new hires but an evasive concept to operationalize in day-to-day cubicle...
Near the beginning of Meltdown, the four-part Netflix documentary series about the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant disaster, a scared-looking...
