Melanie McFarland
Senior Critic at Salon
@Salon. Former prez @OfficialTCA. Former @PeabodyAwards board. Opinions are mine. Mostly RTs which don't ≠ endorsement. Here, I watch. Elsewhere, I post.
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3 weeks ago |
salon.com | Melanie McFarland
As in “Sex and the City,” the fashion featured in “And Just Like That” is its own storyteller. A dress, a color palette, or an accessory becomes an auxiliary narrator, revealing a character’s state of mind or confidence. As such, glimpsing Seema Patel (Sarita Choudhury) encased in pastel florals and plastic pearls during the second episode of Season 3, “The Rat Race,” was disconcerting.
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3 weeks ago |
salon.com | Melanie McFarland
“Dynasty,” the 1981 version, opens with sweeping God’s-eye views of mountains, a forested estate and construction workers building temples to industry — all that the show's protagonist, Blake Carrington, lords over. Our first glimpse of Carrington shows him at work in his massive study. We meet his wife-to-be and former secretary, Krystle, at her bachelorette party taking place inside her modest apartment. Blake has his driver drop off a pair of whoppingly huge diamond earrings, just because.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Melanie McFarland
The following article contains spoilers about "Sirens," including its finale. “Dynasty,” the 1981 version, opens with sweeping God’s-eye views of mountains, a forested estate and construction workers building temples to industry — all that the show's protagonist, Blake Carrington, lords over. Our first glimpse of Carrington shows him at work in his massive study. We meet his wife-to-be and former secretary, Krystle, at her bachelorette party taking place inside her modest apartment.
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3 weeks ago |
salon.com | Melanie McFarland
In the way of many things born at an era’s dawning, “WTF with Marc Maron” reminds us that podcasting began with good intentions. Some of us remember what that territory was like, especially when “WTF” launched and, as Maron recalls at the top of his Monday, June 2 episode, no one knew what a podcast was. As he defined what his podcast would grow to be loved for, Maron carved out a space for his guests to bridge the distance between their celebrity and their humanity.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Melanie McFarland
In the way of many things born at an era’s dawning, “WTF with Marc Maron” reminds us that podcasting began with good intentions. Some of us remember what that territory was like, especially when “WTF” launched and, as Maron recalls at the top of his Monday, June 2 episode, no one knew what a podcast was. As he defined what his podcast would grow to be loved for, Maron carved out a space for his guests to bridge the distance between their celebrity and their humanity.
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