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Romance readers would be familiar with the idea of romantic serialisation - now, Netflix’s Bridgerton brings the format to television, which is why season 1’s Duke of Hastings is nowhere to be seen.
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Depicted as a restrictive and painful undergarment, the corset is often depicted as a symbol of women’s oppression in period dramas.
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The allusive artist continues to fascinate as a series of new productions try to understand the man behind the work.
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What exactly goes into that perfect “reality” television?
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Zombies in horror are often a stand-in for our collective anxieties, manifesting our fears. All Of Us Are Dead continues this grand tradition.
‘Inventing Anna’ is based on Anna Sorokin, who in this photo appears in the New York State Supreme Court on grand larceny charges.
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What is it about Anna Delvey and Simon Leviev and how do gender and gender relations play a role in their schemes?
Actor Seo Kang Joon poses with a fan at an autograph signing.
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Inspired by the sensitive, handsome men they see on TV in their favorite K-dramas, they travel abroad in pursuit of a ‘soft’ masculinity they say they can’t find at home.
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The mud rarely sticks.
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The arrival of streaming platforms hasn’t been the silver bullet to solve timely release of content for Australian audiences.
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“It can’t happen to me”: why we think we’re immune to con artist scams, how they go about swindling regular people - and why we love shows about them.
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If characters on TV consumed less, research has found it can have an impact on the environmental behaviour of audiences
Anna Sorokin, better known as Anna Delvey, during her trial in April 2019. Sorokin is the subject of a new Netflix miniseries.
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Despite the belief that people are deeply skeptical of strangers, study after study shows that humans are primed to trust one another.
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The Netflix adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter explores motherhood as complexly as the book, but some things get lost in translation.
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The movie is more than a metaphor for climate change. It is a metaphor for where 40 years of neoliberal economic policies have left us.
Be kind rewind.
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Some viewers purposefully seek out spoilers, others skip scenes with characters they don’t like. The advent of streaming has made viewers more actives and producers should take note.
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There may be no shortage of offers after such a dramatic season.
Visitors take photos near a model of the doll Younghee featured in ‘Squid Game,’ displayed at the Olympic park in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 26, 2021.
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Squid Game alludes to anti-worker violence that has permeated South Korean labour history, and reminds viewers of the need to overcome real inequalities.
The commentary made by the hit show may seem absurd, but it’s uncomfortably close to the truth.
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In the hit Korean Netflix show ‘Squid Game,’ players are required to sign dubiously ethical contracts as their lives are assigned monetary value.
Big cat showmen have long sought to distance themselves from allegations of animal abuse.
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The flamboyant big-cat aficionados of the Gilded Age weren’t strangers to fierce competition, threats and bizarre drama.
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Research shows that adults, even without kids, have used lockdown and the advent of streaming services, to revisit the shows they enjoyed as children.