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Although everyone loses their voice in the episode "Hush" from the Buffy the Vampire series, that does not mean the episode is silent by any means. In fact, the use of sound in the episode helped the theme immensely. In “Hush,” the entire town is robbed of their voices; no one can speak. A group of monsters called “the gentlemen” take residence in the towns clock tower and use their powers to lock everyones voices away in the middle of the night. When morning comes, fear strikes the entire town…

Serial Chosen: Mad Men Season 2 Episode 1: For those who think young The first episode of Mad Men starts as people in advertising firm Sterling Cooper face new challenges in work and their lives. With no prior knowledge to the show, I like its anesthetic style of story-telling. Throughout the first episode, the sound and visual styles they use impress me. Lacking of thrillers or humour in the show, this episode paints real pictures of the chaotic…

In the Television show Southpark their is an episode called "Cartmanland", it reflects upon two characters and their fortune. Cartman is one of the young characters who is a jerk, yet somehow ends up inheriting a million dollars and buys himself an amusement park. Meanwhile, another character named Stan (who is well behaved) feels like life is cheating him because he isn't rewarded, instead is punished with a hemroid. This episode of Southpark teaches us that God has a plan for all of us, we…

sitcom that is suppose to be funny, but has no substance, but in actuality it shows plenty of social norms in behavior, and interactions with others in a society. To be specific, in one of the episodes titled “Parallel parking” it was all about what kind of norms were accepted for parking in the city. This episode is one big argument between the two main guys fighting about the various norms related…

The Star Trek episode “The Empath”, season 3 episode 12, begins as most all Star Trek shows do; Captain James Tiberius Kirk (Jim), played by William Shatner providing an abbreviated log of events. “Captains log: Star date 5121.5. Orbiting the second planet in the Maniarian star system. This star has long given evidence of entering a nova phase and 6 months ago a research station was established to make close up studies of the star as the end approaches” (Star). The topic of this show is that two…

remember watching an episode of ‘I dream of Jeannie’ which within the world of my childhood innocence brought about a spirit of magic. I recollect spurts of apparition amongst the characters, moving from one place to another in literally the blink of an eyelid. But what remained back in my head was the crux of the entire series where one can see the genie named ‘Jeannie’ living in a bottle with all her belongings and a room like structure all within that thin bottle. In another episode I…

In an episode of Theater Talk, Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins invited actors, Viola Davis and Stephen McKinley, and their director, Kenny Leon, to discuss their revival of Fences by August Wilson. Wilson had passed away prior to the revival, but each of the guests had their own experiences with Wilson before hand. On the show they shared their interpretations of the emotion and power Wilson put into the script. Viola Davis mentions the discomfort that August Wilson writes with because it's…

Zombie Road Zombie Road is the first episode assigned to watch of the second season of Z Nation. In this episode, I saw how Cassandra acted completely different as how she was before. Murphy’s method of mercy was biting her. Because of this, now he has the power of controlling her. It was a wrong thing to do, because now she has little of her old personality and Murphy is taking advantage of her. I do not agree with Murphy’s method of mercy. After his bite, Cassandra suffered physical and…

In this communication episode, a husband and wife have a misunderstanding regarding loyalty. The wife, Wendy, thinks that her husband, Malcolm, is having an extra-marital affair. She thinks her husband is not faithful. Finally, her husband convinces her that he is, in fact, faithful to her. But, at the end of the episode, the whole situation changes. Wendy’s friend kills Malcolm according to the plan the women devised earlier. After this, she realizes her husband was right, and she blames her…

The episode of Black Mirror that we watched in class was an excellent piece of television. Beneath its dystopian and technological aesthetic, there lies a chilling message of very real relevance. That message is of course will become this sheep like society, or even more scary, have we already? The main protagonist, Bing, is often annoyed by frequent advertisements that infilitrate his everyday life. By skipping these ads, Bing is penalized by losing “merits,” the form of currency among the…