Jude Ellison Sady Doyle is an In These Times contributing writer. They are the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… and Why (Melville House, 2016) and was the founder of the blog Tiger Beatdown. You can follow them on Twitter at @sadydoyle.
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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 12: Ding, Dong, the Snitch Is Dead
Homeland's writers kill a major character—and it's actually pretty touching. Go figure.
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An Anonymous Judge and Jury
For digital vigilantes, accused rapists are guilty until proven innocent.
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Double, Double, Race and Gender Trouble
American Horror Story: Coven sets out to explore race, but doesn't get past white guilt.
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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 11: Where’s Fara?
At the expense of more interesting (and diverse) characters, Homeland gives us another hour of Brody.
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In Defense of Peeta Mellark
Teen girls have unruly, selfish desires, and that's OK.
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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 10: Hook, Line and Sinker
We fell for the previews' implication that this episode would be Brody's last. No such luck.
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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 9: Bye Bye Brody
Brody returns just long enough for some furniture destruction and a training montage.
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We Don’t Have to Love Doris Lessing, But We Should Admire Her
After her death, critics have paid more attention to Lessing's personality than her prose.
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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 8: Cruel, But No Longer Unusual
Homeland's insistence on torturing Carrie has become routine to the point of hilarity.
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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 7: Trauma Queens
For once, Carrie isn't the only character on Homeland undergoing emotional anguish.
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The Ethics of Mob Justice
A 'Boston bombing victim' Halloween costume brought out the Internet's pitchforks.
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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 6: Journey to the Center of Saul’s Man-Pain
Homeland puts Saul’s midlife crisis over the welfare (and sanity) of its female characters.
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Orange Is the New Black Roundtable, Part 4: Blackface, Larry and Other Things That Make Us Go ‘Ugh’
Our experts on Julianne Hough's Halloween costume and the surprises and disappointments of OINTB's second half.
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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 5: Daddy Issues Strike Again
Dana's dating another killer? Stop us if you've heard this one before.
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A Case for Couch Potato Feminism
An art exhibit meant to provoke face-to-face feminist dialogue disappoints.
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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 4: Twist and Shout
The reason behind Saul's reprehensible behavior is revealed ... to make no sense whatsoever.
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Serious Heterosexual Guys, Make Way for Munro
Alice Munro’s Nobel victory signifies a changing view of literature.
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Orange Is the New Black, Season 1 Finale: No More Ms. Nice Blonde Lady
The show we didn't see coming socks us in the teeth.
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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Way Down in the Hole (Again)
Brody has bad luck with foreign countries and holes.
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Gravity: A Giant Leap for Film, and a Step for Womankind
The film currently blowing up box offices is, essentially, a one-woman show.
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Orange Is the New Black, Episode 11: Toys for Tots
Everyone in Litchfield just keeps making the same mistakes.
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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 2 Recap: The Girls Must Be Crazy
Dana and Carrie’s families try to silence them 'for their own good.'
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Orange Is the New Black, Episode 11: Misery Loves Company
Surprise! No one in Litchfield can deal with pain in a healthy way.
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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 1 Recap: The Cheese Stands Alone
After a rocky second season, Homeland’s compelling season opener leaves Carrie fending for herself.
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The Joy of Hate-Watching ‘Atlas Shrugged’
A Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the trilogy's final installment is just the icing on the cake.
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Orange Is The New Black, Episode 10: There’s No Place Like ‘Bora Bora Bora’
The fantasy that keeps us going.
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Tech Bros Are Losing
The tech industry's golden children can't get away with bigotry.
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Orange Is The New Black, Episode 9: The Road To Hell
Piper braves the horrors of solitary confinement while Alex stares down her Pennsatucky past.
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Orange Is the New Black, Episode 8: Trapped in the Dryer
Pennsatucky traps Alex in a dryer. Complex emotional growth ensues.
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12 Nameless, Witless Women We Shall Miss
Goodbye, The Newsroom. Goodbye, The Newsroom’s rotating cast of yelled-at female characters.
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Jonathan Lethem’s New Muse
A failed socialist utopia in Queens stands in for the disarray of American progressivism.
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Orange Is the New Black, Episode 7: The Larry Problem
In which we finally bring ourselves to confront OITNB's least likable character.
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Sorkin’s Binders Full of (Incompetent) Women
The Newsroom relives Election Night 2012, minus the boring political stuff.
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Orange Is the New Black Roundtable, Part 3: The Final Word on OITNB (Oh, and Larry)
Does OITNB challenge the prison-industrial complex?
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Orange Is the New Black Roundtable, Part 2: On Religion, Aging, Rape and Race
Does OINTB do its diverse characters justice?
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Orange Is the New Black Roundtable, Part 1: Why, Despite Ourselves, We’re Watching
Our panel of experts on how they got sucked into OITNB, and whether the show gets race right.
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Orange Is the New Black, Episode 6: Democracy Fail
In the end, the guards run the show.
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Hole-y Plotlines, Sorkin!
Increasingly implausible pitfalls sideline what could have been The Newsroom's most compelling story.
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Hell Hath No Fury Like a Comedy Guy Criticized By a Woman
A writer on the thoroughly feminist 'Parks and Recreation' pens some profoundly misogynist garbage.
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Dystopia, for the ‘Lulz’
In MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood explores fundamental questions and mutant pigs.
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Orange is the New Black, Episode 5: Chasing That Chicken
The Litchfield women chase after a legendary chicken, while Daya and Aleida fail to understand one another
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Moderate to the Bone
In The Newsroom's universe, the Left is just as deserving of Will MacAvoy's righteous scorn as the Right.
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Class Wars in Space
Elysium tackles the important issues of our time with the subtlety of an evil robot with a sledgehammer.
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Orange Is the New Black, Episode 4: Prison Isn’t a Pause Button
Piper's old life recedes, and a much richer world emerges.
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Attack of the Tweeting Women
In Episode 5, Sorkin tackles topics (feminism, the Internet) that The Newsroom should never, ever touch.
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Orange Is the New Black, Episode 3: Trans Women and Mentally Ill Cartoons
In OITNB's most-talked-about episode, Sophia Burset explodes transgender stereotypes, and Crazy Eyes gets thrown under the bus.
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P.J. Harvey Gets Unmistakably Political
Harvey's new track pays homage to Shaker Aamer, who has spent 13 years in Guantanamo.
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Why Hillary Terrifies the GOP
Good old-fashioned misogyny just doesn't play the way it used to.
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