Cults
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Raëlian Melodrama Courtesy of Netflix February 20, 2024
What is it about some people that makes them able to persuade others to follow them blindly? And what makes some people suspend their own judgement and free will in favor of pleasing such a leader? The question of obedience to authority has been the ...
Why 'Suits' Was the Most Streamed Show of 2023 February 01, 2024
The most streamed TV show of 2023 wasn’t a cult classic or a critical darling. It was Suits, the glossy legal drama that has become a runaway hit on Netflix. The USA Network drama aired its last episode in the fall of 2019, bringing an unofficial end...
Running Away with the Fairies January 05, 2024
Here in Avalon was never supposed to be about fairies. I’d envisioned the novel—a literary thriller about two sisters, one of whom, Cecilia, goes missing after getting involved with a mysterious interactive theatre troupe—as a straightforwardly Gothi...
