What would happen if humanity completely lost the ability to sleep? This simple catastrophic premise opens the world of Mark Raso’s “Awake” to all sorts of chaos, as humanity descends into madness with each waking moment unless a miracle cure can be found in just a handful of days.  It turns out that the cure…

“Queen of the South” airs its final episode on the USA Network on June 9, and with its conclusion goes one of the rare Latina shows on TV. For the last two seasons, Cuban American Dailyn Rodriguez has been the showrunner, and all along the series has starred Brazilian actress Alice Braga as the Mexican…

Adapted from Carlos López Estrada’s same-titled 2018 movie, “Blindspotting” the television series bears some key similarities to the film but feels wholly different. For one, the eight-episode show airing on Starz doesn’t center Bay Area best friends Miles (Rafael Casal) and Collin (Daveed Diggs)—both Casal and Diggs, however, do serve as writers and executive producers. Rather this…

Thank you David Bates for this beautifully written tribute to Roger, and for giving me permission to republish here at his website.  David is a self-professed “newspaper guy-turned online arts writer” whose work can be found at Medium and the Oregon Arts & Culture News. You can follow him on Twitter at @DavidBWriter. His article, “Remembering Roger…

In a different timeline, “Loki” would have made for an excellent Christopher Nolan movie. But in the timeline that you and I share, it’s an exciting and genuinely inspired addition to Marvel storytelling, one that spins off and rockets its complicated villain into original territory with the help of time travel. We are well aware…