After digesting the fifth installment of True Detective, I finally felt the satisfied sense of contentment that I get after I’ve watched compelling TV. I still feel that the first three episodes, with clunky ridiculous dialogue and tired late 30s white male detective with issues tropes, were a long, long way away from being even…
I was all set to rip the shit out of True Detective this week. I’d given it a reprieve two weeks ago, probably against my better judgement. There was no episode on Super Bowl Sunday, allowing all of my problems with the show to fester and ferment into a cross-pollinated fireball of alcohol-fueled bacterial malaise…
Joe: HBO’s Girls has been a bit of an enigma for me. I’ve seen the marks of high praise given to it by critics, I’ve seen the awards given to the show, and Lena Dunham has been next to inescapable over the past six months. But with all of the praise and public appearances, I…
So this week I continued to get bombarded on multiple fronts with comments like “what do you mean you don’t really like True Detective?”, and “are you kidding me, this True Detective shit is awesome!”. So obviously there is a large disconnect between me and the viewership at large when it comes to this show.…
So, obviously I’m in the minority, as the series premiere of True Detective didn’t exactly knock my socks off. I’m still a little bit baffled, as I’m not entirely sure what was so captivating about the hour that we saw last week. Yes, there is dark imagery, yes there is a ritualistic murder, and yes…
Joe: Nerd culture is pervasive in modern American society. It dominates the box office, has a solid foothold in television, has a heavy hand of influence in both literature and music, and of course in large part chooses to allow the Internet to function. So as with anything else, when something wields so much socio-economic power,…
HOLY SHIT, WHY DIDN’T MY WIFE TELL ME THIS SHIT WAS SO GOOD?!? I’ve watched the last two episodes of this outstanding sometimes intense drama, sometimes uproariously funny comedy, and even though there are story threads galore happening, most of which trace back through several seasons, I have a pretty damn good idea of what’s…
The television medium is not well known for its propensity for experimentation and risk taking. The original formats for the sitcom and TV drama that were developed in the 50s can still be seen largely unchanged on all three major networks today. That said, the rise of premium cable original programming from HBO, Showtime, Netflix,…
Ah, reality TV, that niche of the television industry most rife with pedestals and pitfalls. For every Masterchef there’s a Bachelor, for every Amazing Race there’s a Long Island Medium, for every Big Brother 14 there’s a Big Brother 15. Shark Tank, Mark Cuban’s foray into the medium, borrows much of the schlock from the…
So, those of us who have stuck it out know by now that season 3 crashed and burned. There was the laughably bad back and forth between Mrs. and Dana Brody, which only ended up serving as filler for the first 5 episodes. There was the slightest glimpse of character development for Quinn and F.…