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Over the last decade, television has played a central role in shifting public understanding of transgender people, introducing us to transgender prison inmates, ballroom legends, professors and superheroes.
HBO's docuseries "The Lady and the Dale" recasts 1970s automobile entrepreneur and con artist Elizabeth Carmichael as a transgender antihero.
Spoilers Below Flack Season 1, created by Oliver Lansley, is about Robyn, an American-born P.R. executive a.k.a. fixer in London, who is on the top of her career but struggles in her personal life. Flack is an enjoyable series that tackles some exciting P.R. “cases,” but it feels a lot like Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal. The only difference is Robyn deals with athletes, celebrities, and actors in the U.K. while Olivia Pope fixes messes for politicians in Washington D.C. The “anti-hero” woman was new ten years ago, but now it’s old news. If the series felt unique, then having Robin...
Cracker When his bungling led to boss Christopher Eccleston’s murder by serial stabber Robert Carlyle (how’s that for a cast?), Lorcan Cranitch’s creepy cop descended further and raped colleague DS Jane Penhaligon (Geraldine Somerville). Even after Beck died, Fitz (Robbie Coltrane) was unforgiving: “I spit on the bastard’s grave every time his name is mentioned.” Lieutenant Gilles Escoffier Spiral “Gilou” (Thierry Godard) was the lover and most trusted enforcer of Captain Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust). He’d beat up suspects, snort cocaine and steal from gangsters, then gi...
In the 2002 pilot episode of the hit FX series The Shield, the show’s merciless and corrupt protagonist, Los Angeles Police Department detective Vic Mackey, played by Michael Chiklis, brutally beats a suspect and murders a fellow officer in cold blood—and it only gets worse from there. For the rest of the show’s seven seasons, Mackey displays increasingly disturbing and illegal behavior: torturing and killing suspects, stealing evidence, embezzling money. Not only did the events of that first episode make it onto Rolling Stone’s “The Shocking 16: TV’s Most Heart-stopping Momen...