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.
John Cho plays iconic anime bounty hunter Spike Spiegel in Netflix’s live-action adaptation of ‘Cowboy Bebop.’
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‘Cowboy Bebop’ drew international viewers with its genre-bending fusion of American mafia movies, Italian westerns, Japanese cyberpunk, Hong-Kong style martial arts and its eclectic soundtrack.
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Teens deserve to be empowered by knowledge of the pleasures of sex.
Still : Andrew Glouberman, a character in the Netflix's animated comedy Big Mouth watches a condom demonstration from mother.
Growing up is never easy, but visualising complex ideas can help. Animation and character design allow us to put a metaphorical mirror up to society.
The show is violent fantasy emerging from the desperation experienced by those in crippling debt.
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The unanticipated popularity of the Korean show ‘Squid Game’ highlights our relationship to debt and capitalism, but the contradictions extend beyond the show itself.
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Children are being exposed to aspects of Netflix’s gory and dark drama Squid Game, but it’s most likely not from the streaming service itself.
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Streaming platforms have introduced to thousands of hyper-specific categories and genres that shape our tastes.
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Rising household debt in South Korea is crippling many and Squid Game speaks to this very real horror facing many in the country.
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Squid Game is the latest South Korean television show to highlight vast socio-economic inequality and the brutal trap of capitalism.
How did ‘Indian Matchmaking,’ a show that hinges on regressive principles of caste and colourism, not to mention flippant misogyny, land itself an Emmy nomination?
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To witness South Asian representation on a global platform is liberating, but what one is being represented for is of more importance, if not the most.
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The third season of Aziz Ansari’s Master of None explores the complexities of a lesbian relationship. It is like nothing the show has done before.
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A stage musical adaptation is just the newest addition to the cottage industry which is Round The Twist nostalgia.
New Balance shoes are front and center in a scene from ‘Ted Lasso.’
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Global spending on product placements is expected to top $23 billion in 2021, about a 14% increase over the previous year.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women have started telling their own stories via social media, challenging television’s sometimes one-sided depictions of their lives.
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The #MyOrthodoxLife movement challenges both mainstream and ultra-Orthodox media to tell more nuanced and complex stories about Jewish women.
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Even though The Chair confronts some of the tougher realities of higher education, the world it depicts is still rosier than the reality.
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A new Netflix documentary gives an intimate look into Naomi Osaka finding her voice in the world.
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We fall for people based on appearance, kindness and wealth. It’s not as simple as removing one part of the equation.
Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried in the Netflix film Mank.
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Netflix requires its narrative feature films be shot on approved cameras. This can lead to a flat, depthless look, in contrast to the graininess of celluloid.