My comment wasn't about the Sopranos, which I've only watched intermittently, it was about HBO's effect on television. Enlightened is a fascinating "white" show to me because you've got this do-gooder white liberal coming back from a nervous breakdown (can I get a WPP up in here?), having "seen the light" and wanting…

Olive, I understand where you disagree, but unfortunately it's via the same reductive logic Murray employs throughout his whole article. I am going to send you up to Just a Nigga that Likes Tittie for his thoughts on why white pejorative is different than black/hispanic/gay pejorative. And I know it was Murray's…

I don't think my second paragraph was useless - I was explaining that Murray conflates his own rarified critical atmosphere with the public's. His whole issue is "people" are "using the term as a form of criticism, meant to be dismissive." He then explicitly defines people as "a critic or a potential audience member,"…

Wow. In a way, I'm glad to see a site which is almost wholly dedicated to disseminating the judgment of entitled white males take explicit issue with being called out on it. "We don't like it when you dismiss our lack of perspective!" In you and your cohorts' intrepid quest to "engage with what a piece of art actually…

A bold article for sure. My immediate reaction is to slam it as flashy contrarian claptrap, but I think the issue is more of a general misguided attitude toward the meaning of an episode across various subgenres of TV drama. Most obviously, the soap opera, which is what any of the "new generation" of serialized series…

Really happy Enlightened has been renewed! Can't wait to see Amy "Burn It Down" next season. It seems to me that Season 2 is kind of all we need from this show, Amy coming to terms with her mission (S1), Amy executing it (S2), and maybe, maybe a Season 3 of the fallout and ultimate fates of all the characters (does…