HBO Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/hbo/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png HBO Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/hbo/ 32 32 Trans Women and Children on TV https://www.publicbooks.org/trans-women-and-children-on-tv-pose-veneno/ Thu, 05 May 2022 15:00:36 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48515 The family as we know it today functions to further isolate trans children from trans women and vice versa. Thank goodness for TV.

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]]> Nuclear Noir https://www.publicbooks.org/nuclear-noir/ Fri, 01 Oct 2021 15:00:48 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45542 At its core, noir is a feeling: realizing one’s own helplessness, when faced with the vast networks of power that control everyday life.

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]]> Public Picks 2021 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2021/ Fri, 21 May 2021 15:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=43288 Each May we send our readers into summer with a curated list of the titles that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us most over the past year (or so).

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]]> What Is the Genre of Rape? https://www.publicbooks.org/what-is-the-genre-of-rape/ Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:00:21 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=41639 While some progress has been made, TV is still trying to figure out how to tell the stories of male-identified rape survivors.

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]]> Wrongworld https://www.publicbooks.org/wrongworld/ Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:00:32 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39990 Even with its ambitious and compelling premise of robot revolution, HBO’s Westworld lacks the imagination to follow the story to its logical outcomes.

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]]> “Lovecraft Country”: A Spell Gone Awry https://www.publicbooks.org/lovecraft-country-a-spell-gone-awry/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:00:44 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39602 Lovecraft Country runs on a formula: genre clichés—however racist—only need to be painted over, so as to be enjoyed without guilt.

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]]> Facing Our Demons https://www.publicbooks.org/facing-our-demons/ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:00:47 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=38783 I May Destroy You explores how sexual violation is entangled in relations of visuality.

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]]> A Tale of Two Valleys https://www.publicbooks.org/a-tale-of-two-valleys/ Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:00:17 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=37550 To understand Silicon Valley, first examine the stories it tells about itself; just like, to understand the Victorian age, first read writers like Dickens and Dreiser.

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]]> “Euphoric” Heroes https://www.publicbooks.org/euphoric-heroes/ Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:00:57 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=30939 “I know your generation relied on flowers and fathers’ permission,” says Rue, the protagonist of HBO’s Euphoria, “but it’s 2019, and unless you’re Amish, nudes are the currency of love, so stop shaming ...

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