Jubilee

/ jo͞obəˈläläl . mē / noun: Jubilee's cyberspace persona

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Evan Handler, 2009. Photo by Kristin Dos Santos, cropped from the original. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Food for Thought, Show Reviews

The Case Against Harry Goldenblatt

Har­ry Gold­en­blatt has long been one of the most, if not the most, beloved of Sex and the City’s char­ac­ters, owing to his posi­tion as the oh-so-lov­ing part­ner of peren­ni­al roman­tic, Char­lotte York. To be fair, his com­pe­ti­tion is not exact­ly robust: most of the men on Sex and the City are vary­ing degrees of ter­ri­ble. Ter­ri­ble men do, after all, make good tele­vi­sion. Mr. Big strings Car­rie along for years; Steve cheats on Miran­da; Trey is emo­tion­al­ly con­sti­pat­ed even… Con­tin­ue Reading

Food for Thought, Show Reviews

House of the Dragon vs. Modern Audiences

Not too long ago, I binge-watched HBO’s House of the Drag­on (hence­forth HOTD), a pre­quel spin­off of its acclaimed tele­vi­sion series, Game of Thrones (hence­forth GOT), itself an inter­pre­ta­tion of George R. R. Mar­t­in’s A Song of Ice and Fire (hence­forth ASOIAF) book series. HOTD fol­lows a spe­cif­ic epoch pre­dat­ing the events of GOT by almost 200 years — that is, it is based large­ly off the events of a civ­il war referred to as the Dance of Drag­ons — the details… Con­tin­ue Reading