TV: Was Adoption the Victim of Foul Play in Once Upon a Time’s Pilot?

I enjoyed the pilot of Once Upon a Time. I had some issues – Jennifer Morrison‘s gritty character, the best thing about it, clashed completely with everything else in its universe. The ‘fairy tale’ world was a bit hokey. Alright, a lot hokey. And one odd recurring theme was about adoption and, if you read [...]

Cultural Changes in TV: Contrasting Just Shoot Me and Ugly Betty (Nov. 2008)

In my first year at Ryerson (Nov. 2008), the term paper we were assigned to write was a compare-and-contrast research paper comparing two television shows, and what the differences between them showed about TV at the time. The paper was well-received, and I was recommended to keep a copy of it as a portfolio piece [...]