My Precious? Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
byErik Eklund reviews Amazon’s new mega-budget Lord of The Rings spin off for Transpositions, addressing the controversy around the creation of the series. J.R.R. Tolkien…
Television
‘Stop Working Me’: Jesse Pinkman as Child-Prophet in Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad
by[EDITOR’S NOTE: Mary McCampbell, who contributed to our Ten-year Anniversary series at the end of 2020, provides a more in-depth look into the television…
Stories of Domestic Abuse
byThe recent BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Booker-nominated novel, Normal People, was lauded for the skill with which it brought Rooney’s candid, compelling story…
Heaven Without God?: How a Fourth Century Theologian Solves the Dilemma of NBC’s ‘The Good Place’
by[WARNING: This contains spoilers for the final episode of NBC’s The Good Place ] ‘Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try’, sang…
Netflix’s ‘Marianne’ and the Little Man of God
by‘He was not a bad man but he was also not a nice man either. I am not sure that being nice was actually…
The Religious Turn in Fleabag
byAt the centre of the first season of the BAFTA-winning comedy Fleabag is the gleefully promiscuous eponymous protagonist, played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, whose answer to…
Re-Enchantment and Post-Secularity in Game of Thrones
byQuestion: What do Daenerys Targaryen, The Unburnt, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons, and yourself—with fingers hovering idly over trackpad and eyes bouncing across…