...Erin Greer The episode “Nosedive” from the Netflix series Black Mirror (dir. Joe Wright, Netflix, UK, 2016) provides a dystopian version of a popular narrative about digital culture, according to which the ascent of social media marks the “feminization of the Internet,” its transformation from...

...Olivia Landry Abstract The 2020 Netflix drama series Unorthodox draws on tropes from a vexed archive of transcultural cinema, in particular Turkish German cinema. Through the frame of the captivity narrative, this essay examines how the series about a young Hasidic Jewish woman who escapes her...

... the series for not providing sufficient representation of gay romance. Eager to meet this demand, the showrunners responded by creating such a plotline in its first spinoff, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Netflix, 2023), and hinting at further inclusion in future seasons. 3 LGBTQ+ consumers want...

...: the streaming content provider Netflix. In a 2013 study, Netflix declared binge watching “the new normal,” enlisting the expertise of a cultural anthropologist, Grant McCracken, to explain its popu- larity.8 McCracken explicitly situates the phenomenon as a result of the aesthetic and technological...

... created more programming outlets. As a result of various time- shifting devices and formats, theme songs have also been easier for users to avoid or excise from episodic viewing. In an essay about Netflix s decision to include a Skip Intro default feature on its platform, Myles McNutt criticized...

... directed by the Indian filmmaker Vibha Bakshi; Deepa Mehta's 2016 film, Anatomy of Violence (Canada/India); and a two-season Netflix Indian original series, Delhi Crime (Netflix, 2019–present), which dramatizes the police case. I name these here to show how Pandey's high-profile case continues...

... anthology series Black Mirror (Netflix, 2011–) titled “Arkangel” takes up many of these older episodes’ same themes, exploring the gendered power dynamics of surveillance and spectatorship. 28 In the episode, an anxious single mother signs her young daughter up for a new program called Arkangel: a chip...

... in Paris. I May Destroy You Deserved a Golden Globe Nomination.” 3 The author of said article explains that her own Emmy-nominated Emily in Paris (Netflix, 2020–present) is merely lighthearted entertainment and a reflection of her own experiences as a twenty-two-year-old ex-pat, while I May Destroy...

... with the times. As scholars of television, we should examine these production processes and differing airing contexts as textually significant, in part by being more precise in naming our objects of study. For example, one is likely to take for granted that the 1975 One Day at a Time and the 2017 Netflix...

... depicting pregnant men. Some examples skew more toward horror—as seen in the parasitic pregnancies of male characters in Alien (dir. Ridley Scott, US, 1979), the dramatic chaos depicted in the series Sense8 (Netflix, 2015), and the conspiratorial impregnation of young boys in the French film Evolution...

..., and online modes such as Netflix. Similarly, the ideological scaffolding that supports a notion of the female grotesque within reality celebrity requires an engagement with transmediation, or the intensification of stories across diverse media platforms such as the Internet, tabloids, and social media...

... with similar autobiographical author-performer dramedies led by men, such as Louie (FX, 2010–15), Master of None (Netflix, 2015–17), Crashing (HBO, 2017–19), Ramy (Hulu, 2019–), and Dave (FX, 2020–), from the basic similarity of generic tone to less obvious but very explicit similarities...

..., “ ‘There are no quirky black comedies out there,’ added Rae, who lists Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld [NBC, 1989 – 99], and Arrested Development [Fox, 2003 – 6; Netflix, 2013] as her must-­see TV. ‘Where is that in the black community?’ ” Helena Andrews, “Embracing the Awkward One Webisode...

... expressed or engaged with in popular culture texts: Hannah Gadsby's Nanette (dir. Madeleine Perry and John Olb, Australia, 2018), Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman (US, 2020), and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix, 2018–20), to name just a few. This mediatization of feminist anger...