American drama television series

In fact, he’s also an actor just like his little sister. His most notable work was as Mark Wayland in the Showtime series The L Word. He also landed the lead in the 2006 movie The Butterfly Effect 2. His most recent work as a movie actor was in 2014’s BFFs but seeing that he looks like that, we sure hope to see more of him. 9. Justin Theroux The Leftovers actor has…

was also removed in 1967. An example of this is the movie Easy Rider by Dennis Hopper, which depicted the drug use of the era. It also demonstrates the volatile hippie movement, along with the social tensions at the time, through a depiction of the American road trip that made the movie highly popular (Rielly). Another example of the 1960 movie scene was Bonnie and Clyde. This movie’s significance stems from the fact that it is one of the first of the so-called “New Hollywood” era, marked by an…

How does the hit American TV Series The Orange is the New Black address issues of gender representation and equality? In the recent years, there are a lot argues about feminism. Some people thing that in today’s society there is no longer a need for feminism, women can also have the equal pay, equal job and equal rights in today society, for example Park Geun-hye becomes the first woman elected President of South Korea and Tsai Ing-wen becomes Taiwan’s first female president (Julian (2016)).…

During my readings of various female road narratives, I noticed that murder recurred throughout the texts as a catalyst for change the protagonists use to their advantages. The protagonists in Thelma & Louise and Arya in Game of Thrones all use murder to flee existing structures which seek to wrongfully punish them. The murders they carry out also disassociate them from the typical depiction of women during their respective time periods, as well as empowers them to go on their own adventures…

It is clear that America suffers from social inequality and because of this television has been a critical impact on society's views, perspectives, and culture. From time to time, television's hegemonic approach subliminally sends stereotypically negative images of Black people and families. However, shows such as The Cosby Show, and Prince of Bel-Air, went against traditional stereotypes of Black Families by displaying their middle and their upper middle class family lives in distinct ways.…

Reality Show. If you grew up with MTV during 90s til 2000, you would be notice the transition of the TV programs at that time. A new wave called “Reality Show” defeated other TV shows rapidly, and gain popularity over the night. “Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents supposedly unscripted real-life situations, and often features an otherwise unknown cast of individuals who are typically not professional actors, although in some shows celebrities may participate”…

What is so interesting about watching a seemingly ordinary person compete to fulfill their dreams? This is the basic concept of reality, competition, shows. In the last few years cooking competitions have become increasingly more popular to audiences around the global. Since it began in England in the 1990s, MasterChef has become a global phenomenon. Fifty countries around the world have now created their own version of the competitive cooking competition. Nevertheless, even though they all have…

The film First Blood is first film in a series about John Rambo, a discharged green beret who struggles to assimilate into society and by failing to do so causes mass chaos. The film’s director is Ted Kotcheff, a director who got his start in England directing a film in 1957. Kotcheff has received praise for his role in increasing the film industry in Canada, Rotten Tomatoes states that Kotcheff should receive credit for, “all but single-handedly turned that country's film industry around”.…

Jersey Shore is an American reality television series which originally run on MTV from December 3, 2009 until December 20, 2012 in the United States. The show follows the lives of eight housemates spending their summer at Jersey Shore, New Jersey. The morality of this show can be questioned since members usually behave like reckless teenagers. Certainly there is not underage drinking, but we have to question ourselves why is this behavior shown on air as normal and acceptable. Moreover,…

Inside A vigilantly Unless you have been living under a rock over the past decade you have probably heard young adults exclaim their excitement to go home and “Netflix and chill”. Several networks have produced hard hitting dramas over the last few years that have Americans “binge-watching” and becoming highly more emotionally invested than ever before. Two of my personal favorites are Kurt Sutter’s: Sons of Anarchy and HBO’s Dexter. Both of the shows depict its main character involved in…