by | Mar 5, 2024 11:31 am | Comments (0)
Aerial view of Dilijan, Armenia, in documentary.
Armenia, My Home
Connecticut Public TV premiere; streaming on PBS
I guess you could say that I have a fraught relationship with the idea of a homeland.
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by | Jan 5, 2024 11:14 am | Comments (0)
SQUID GAME: THE TRIAL EXPERIENCE
Television City
Los Angeles
Ongoing since Dec. 6, 2023
I am not the first person to say this: we are living in hell. It’s the reason we fell in love with the popular K‑drama series Squid Game (2021) on Netflix. Crippling debt and callous hooded figures plotting your death for sadistic entertainment in a game feel like melodramatic but accurate metaphors for our current moment. And yes, I, too, love playing games and have no money. Squid Game: The Trial Experience, the latest immersive experience designed to recreate the hit television series in Los Angeles, is less interested in mirroring our political unrest or offering a heavy-handed metaphor for capitalism. (Worth noting: The ticket was 54 dollars.) Instead, it plays out like a Dave & Buster’s for fascism cosplay.
by | Aug 31, 2023 8:00 am | Comments (0)
When my friend told me she’d gotten tickets to The Steve Wilkos Show, I jumped at the opportunity to go. I love drama, I love daytime television, and I love new experiences. This was all three in one, as I’d never been part of a live studio audience for a television show — let alone a show that is directly descended from The Jerry Springer Show.
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