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Esther Breger

Esther Breger is a freelance writer in Brooklyn.

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September 23, 2016
Esther Breger
On Transparent, A Family Unhappy In Its Own Way
The third season asks its characters: What happens after you’ve changed your life and you’re still not happy?
June 9, 2016
Esther Breger
Jennifer Lawrence will be donning a black turtleneck to play everyone’s favorite former billionaire.
June 8, 2016
Esther Breger
Netflix released a “Binge Scale,” but it still won’t tell us how many people watch its shows.
May 6, 2016
Esther Breger
Ryan Murphy’s next anthology series is about celebrity catfights.
April 16, 2016
Esther Breger
The Washington That Failed Anita Hill
'Confirmation' is a political procedural that traces the injustice done to Anita Hill at Clarence Thomas's 1991 Senate hearing.
April 1, 2016
Esther Breger
New York is now the best state in America to be a working parent.
March 23, 2016
Esther Breger
The trailer for Bridget Jones’s Baby has introduced a new timeline into the Bridget Jones multiverse.
March 17, 2016
Esther Breger
Soon even six-year-olds will be reading Elena Ferrante.
March 16, 2016
Esther Breger
The Brutal Despair of The Americans’ Fourth Season
If espionage ever looked fun or exciting, it certainly doesn’t anymore.
March 8, 2016
Esther Breger
J.K. Rowling needs to be stopped.
February 29, 2016
Esther Breger
Neil deGrasse Tyson has run out of things to correct people about.
February 29, 2016
Esther Breger
Stacey Dash wrote a blog post explaining her Oscars cameo (and plugging her new book).
February 29, 2016
Esther Breger
So you want to boycott the Oscars...
February 26, 2016
Esther Breger
My Fuller House confessions.
February 25, 2016
Esther Breger
Black-ish revived the Very Special Episode, with some help from Ta-Nehisi Coates.
February 24, 2016
Esther Breger
Eva Longoria, America Ferrara, and Jimmy Smits were all told by casting directors that they needed “Latino accents.”
February 17, 2016
Esther Breger
Broad City: Are You an Abbi or an Ilana?
More likely you’re neither, as the third season resists the stereotypes of female friendship.
February 4, 2016
Esther Breger
It’s hard out here for a white Oscar nominee.
February 3, 2016
Esther Breger
Ryan Murphy has pledged to hire more directors who aren’t straight white men.
February 1, 2016
Esther Breger
Pope Francis is making his feature film debut—but don’t call him an actor.

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