“Uh…Oh…Ah…” First off, that’s the fucking title? Uh Oh Ah? No clue with that one. Don’t even have an idea where that came from. I don’t even have a joke. Suspension of disbelief is important for Homeland. We’re now living in a world where a “second 9/11″ has happened, and I’m sure everyone has their…
“The Pawnee-Eagleton Tip off Classic” This episode felt like a small letdown after last week’s grand one hour premier. There were some nice moments, but very few of the belly-laugh guffaws that I’ve grown accustomed to as a result of this show. Sometimes the show falls into a strange comedic gray area because most of…
“Pilot” This past weekend, the scientific sexual revolution themed Masters of Sex debuted as Showtime’s next dip into the HBO-dominated premium cable arthouse ocean. The show, based in the notoriously repressive 1950s (as much as the American 50s are regaled by so many as an idyllic utopia, there are dozens, if not hundreds…
“Tin Man Is Down” What, no Brody? It would have been a lot easier to write the Brody character out of the script if the writers had just killed him off last season like they should have, or like Damian Lewis actually seemed to have preferred. I suppose it says something about the health of…
I’m sure there have been more criminally underrated shows than Parks & Recreation over the years, but I’m hard pressed to come up with many. I suppose The Wire never got proper recognition when it was airing, but hyper-intelligent urban dramas on HBO can be a bit elusive, and it certainly has been lauded over…
A pilot can obviously make or break a series. In most cases, this refers to the actual survival of a show, as establishing an initial audience is often life or death when it comes to modern network programming. In the artistic sense, this refers to tone setting, character establishment, episode format, etc. When it comes…
There are now two Homelands. The Homeland That Could Have Been, and the Homeland that Is. The Homeland TCHB includes much of what remains in the Homeland that Is. All of the best elements from Zero Dark Thirty are in. Bi-polar-as-fuck, wall-collage-pasting Carrie is certainly in. Mandy Patinkin’s beard is without a doubt in, but…