American drama television series

Introduction Orange is the New Black, a comedy drama TV show that first aired on Netflix is 2013, follows Piper Chapman on her journey through an all women’s minimum security prison. The show is critically acclaimed because it brings up topics that many people are afraid to talk about. Not only is it taking on the topic of female prisoner in the United States prison system, it also reaches out and talks about race, sexuality and gender. Throughout the series, there are many reoccurring…

I have chosen “Mamma Mia”, a fictional story inspired by the music of the Swedish pop group, ABBA. The title of the musical is one of the group’s songs, and it sung throughout the show. I chose it because I saw it pretty recently with one of my closest friends, and it opened up a world of new love and appreciation for Broadway and Musical Theatre to me, even though I loved it already. It’s hard to talk about the musical without mentioning the history of the hugely successful group, ABBA.…

over the years we have over 300 reality television shows (Yahr, Moore, and Chow). Reality TV shows have impacted society negatively because they promote aggressive behavior and the use of drugs and alcohol causes society to imitate famous celebrities. While most of us think of Survivor as being the first reality TV show that came on air in 2000, reality television really started in 1948 with Allen Funt’s Hidden Camera show. Before it became a television show Funt had a radio show called Hidden…

Keeping Up with the Kardashians During the past decade, TV has gained power over the years and became an assertive competitor for cinema. Specially, considering the fact that the quality of television products increased day by day and a lot of movie stars appear in TV shows. On the other hand, alongside TV series, reality shows have become an important ingredient of TV inbox. However ,there are a lot of debates about the reality shows being scripted and not actually visualization of real…

The television shows of teenagers nowadays is such a broad spectrum ranging from anime to reality tv. Some shows are usually watched by both genders, like The Walking Dead and American Horror Story. Since I am a girl and enjoy watching drama I would assume that not that many guys watch drama. In these shows the most obvious example I can think about playing into gender roles would be anime. There are some animes that express all of the girls as having big boobs and long hair who are very skinny.…

music, seen in a dark theater, shown on the television, or quickly placed on the screens of a hand held device. It can be calming, loud, annoying, humorous, exciting, sad, and eventful. Entertainment is many things and has taken many shapes through the history of society. It would be implausible to say that entertainment has the capacity to ruin society. Entertainment is what develops our society. A young child learns from entertainment. Children’s television shows are intriguing to a child,…

Much of the credit for that can go to Alison Bechdel, an American cartoonist who invented the Bechdel test, an indicator of gender bias in films. It first appeared in the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For in 1985. Bechdel credited the idea to a friend, Liz Wallace, to the writings of Virginia Woolf. The Bechdel…

In the fall of 2016, the American Broadcasting Company debuted the first season of Designated Survivor, a political based television series exploring the potential need of having a designated successor during important political gatherings. The popular drama portrays Tom Kirkman as an unexpected and unprepared leader who humbly takes the presidential position, serving his nation as effectively as possible. Driven by the influences of others and desire to help his people, Kirkman uses his…

“Reality” Television Author of Reality TV: Factual Entertainment and Television Audiences, Annette Hill, writes, "In the early stages of the genre, reality TV was associated with on-scene footages of law and order or emergency services; more recently, reality TV is associated with anything and everything, from people to pets, from birth to death" (Hill 41). Hill’s observations showcase how reality television evolved throughout time. Reality TV swept modern American society, especially during…

(Voodoo or Vodou) magic (Christie 2011, p. 10; Farghaly 2014, p. 8; Platts 2013, p. 549). It is a product of the supernatural, combined with a vague applied science of pharmacology (Farghaly 2014, p. 9). Here, we shall examine the cinematic (North American) version of zombie which is vastly different from its Haitian predecessor. From its humble beginning as a subculture confined to cult classic movies, to its eventual branching out to video games and graphic novels. As well as how the…