We have entered a brave new world for advertising. Marketing campaigns that seemed brilliant during the Superbowl only a few weeks ago now seem dated and out of touch. Entire premises of TV shows are dated before they even premiere. Modern Family’s finale, the culmination of 11 seasons of the once-groundbreaking perennial Emmy winner, was based on […]
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NBC’s ‘The Good Place’ attempts to build a comedy around the topic of moral philosophy. But can a network sitcom accurately teach concepts like existentialism and the works of Plato and Kant? To try to get their facts straight, the show’s creators invited philosophy scholars into the writers’ room for the show. One of them
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Humans have been laughing at jokes about inebriation at least since Romans wrote comedy. Once it was drunks who were funny — Otis on “The Andy Griffith Show,” Foster Brooks, Dean Martin — but drunks just seem like alcoholics now. Marijuana, meanwhile, has moved in — pot jokes long ago entered the mainstream — and
