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Isha Aran
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Isha is a staff reporter who covers pop culture, representation in media, and your new faves.

I love Frieda. She steals every scene she’s in this season. I really want to see a conversation between her and Red about their upbringing since they were ostensibly raised as enemies, but end up as allies.
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“But overall, the juxtaposition of comedy and tragedy that OITNB has always nailed feels uncoordinated.” Read more

I could never even get past the premiere — if you’re a pretty white girl, the judicial system lets you go back home and throw a going-away BBQ before you head off to prison? Read more

The Atlantic did this nice rebuttal to the hysteria. Every time “Caesar” is staged, it references current political figures, climate, and events.... And yes, the lead is murdered evert time. Nobody had said Boo about it until now, because up until the advent of Trumpanzee Hysteria, people were just smarter and Got The Read more

I see your point, but look who the audience is for Shakespeare in the Park, it’s overwhelmingly NYC residents, Democrats to the bone most of us. If this were playing in Des Moines, your public would be different. Read more

I suppose you’re right. Although as the kind of free speech absolutist who usually donates more money to the ACLU when they support the speech of people who would like to kill me, I don’t see local theater that compares a sitting president to a Roman dictator as particularly edgy, daring or offensive.   Read more

As much as I’d like to angrily shout that this is some spineless fucking bullshit, the guy does have a point when he mentions the idea of the “Public” theater belonging to everybody, and thus should probably stay clear of a story that could isolate large swaths of the public. That is, if, of course, the same action is Read more

Who would have thought the party of “no safe spaces”, would be the one clamoring for space spaces every time someone offends their pearl clutching snow flake asses. Read more

Jesus Christ. And here I didn’t think that DJT2 could get any dumber. Read more

I too, am offended. Julius Caesar, whatever his faults, was a man of talent, ability, intelligence, and skill. Trump shares none of these. To portray Caesar as Trump is an insult.  Read more

The Conservative Infotainment Complex continues to prove that working the refs is extremely effective. Read more

Marc Anthony, one of Ceasar’s supporters, is played by a Woman. They don’t mention that. or any of the other various things that are ‘not negative’. Read more

It doesn’t really matter, since someone’s gonna hack it to give the “grab ‘em by the pussy” speech at some point. Might as well just lean into it. Read more

“President Obama wasn’t born in America. Smart people are saying that. The best people. BUT I DIDNT SAY THAT! That’s fake news. The failing liberal media is making a witch hunt.” Read more