Category Archives: Analysis – TV Shows

TV Show Analysis – Exploration of the afterlife on television: Upload vs The Good Place (The afterlife’s benefits and shortfalls)

The afterlife, according to a definition published on Wikipedia, is a “purported existence in which the essential part of an individual’s identity or their stream of consciousness continues to live after the death of their physical body.” The Wikipedia page on the afterlife goes on to state that according to the various ideas about the afterlife, the essential aspect of

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TV Show Analysis – Exploration of the afterlife on television: Upload vs The Good Place (The Good Place)

The afterlife, according to a definition published on Wikipedia, is a “purported existence in which the essential part of an individual’s identity or their stream of consciousness continues to live after the death of their physical body.” The Wikipedia page on the afterlife goes on to state that according to the various ideas about the afterlife, the essential aspect of

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TV Show Analysis – Exploration of the afterlife on television: Upload vs The Good Place (Upload)

The afterlife, according to a definition published on Wikipedia, is a “purported existence in which the essential part of an individual’s identity or their stream of consciousness continues to live after the death of their physical body.” The Wikipedia page on the afterlife goes on to state that according to the various ideas about the afterlife, the essential aspect of

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TV Show Analysis – Charmed and Neutrality: Why neutral beings in Charmed fail (Why did they fail?)

In the first part of this analysis series, I included the definition of neutrality and the purpose of neutral beings, according to Charmed. “Neutral beings are not aligned with either Good or Evil, and do not participate in the eternal struggle between them. Instead, they perform other functions in maintaining the Grand Design, or are free to pursue their own

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TV Show Analysis – Charmed and Neutrality: Why neutral beings in Charmed fail (The Avatars)

Charmed (the original series) revolved around three powerful, sister-witches known as the Charmed Ones who use their powers to fight against evil. In fact, Charmed as a whole is about the ongoing cosmic fight between Good and Evil. However life and magic are not completely black and white, there are shades of grey, including in Charmed, in the form of neutrality, specifically neutral beings. Definition

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TV Show Analysis – Charmed & Neutrality: Why neutral beings in Charmed fail (The Cleaners)

Charmed (the original series) revolved around three powerful, sister-witches known as the Charmed Ones who use their powers to fight against evil. In fact, Charmed as a whole is about the ongoing cosmic fight between Good and Evil. However life and magic are not completely black and white, there are shades of grey, including in Charmed, in the form of neutrality, specifically neutral beings.

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TV Show Analysis – Charmed and Neutrality: Why neutral beings in Charmed fail (The Angel of Death)

Charmed (the original series) revolved around three powerful, sister-witches known as the Charmed Ones who use their powers to fight against evil. In fact, Charmed as a whole is about the ongoing cosmic fight between Good and Evil. However life and magic are not completely black and white, there are shades of grey, including in Charmed, in the form of

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TV Show Analysis – Charmed and the Ripple Effect

Charmed (the original series) revolved around three powerful, sister-witches known as the Charmed Ones, who use their powers to fight against evil. Charmed’s premise in itself revolves around a big picture, almost common morality—good vs evil—however the season two episode, Morality Bites, focuses on the sisters’ personal morality, and how the choices they have made based on this morality have

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TV Show & Movie Analysis – Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology

We all love TV shows—whether it’s romance, dramas or comedies—and we not only love TV shows, we love the characters that come with them. In fact the characters, or at least one of them, are generally the reason why we love certain TV shows. A good character is rounded, multi-dimensional and relatable. With the latter term, relatable usually means human

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TV Show Analysis: Marital and gender roles in The Brady Bunch and House Husbands

Gender roles have been hardwired in men and women since the beginning of time. Men are the hunters and gatherers, breadwinners, fathers, husbands, authority figures—providing shelter and food to their families whilst maintaining some standard of masculinity. To complement that, women are the nurturers, mothers, housewives—they take care of the family and home. These roles were heavily emphasised and reminded

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