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It takes a good long while to download anything on St Helena. A good long while and a pretty penny. A half hour of foot-dragging wi-fi at any one of the handful of hot spots in Jamestown, the island’s capital,
When The Sopranos ended its six-season run in June 2007, the controversial final sequence—no spoilers here, dear reader—became the stuff of water cooler conversations everywhere. By the time Breaking Bad came to its own conclusion last September, the very nature
The opening shots are like something out of a Western. A seemingly endless sky. A row of lopsided power lines. Saltbush. On the soundtrack, the wind whistles across the plain, while a sombre, sonorous voiceover intones: “My father once told
Sports television is rarely commented upon in terms of its aesthetic qualities. Like a lot of the non-fiction content that passes across our screens—with the possible exception of current affairs programs, whose characteristic tropes and tics have been roundly and
I watched Seinfeld again recently, every episode of every season in chronological order. And while much of the series remains relevant today, not to mention blindingly funny, it nevertheless struck me as dated. It wasn’t that the style of comedy