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…
Oooooooooomg this week I was on the button, which actually isn’t as easy as it seems. I get confused and I picked a show that maybe my fellow screensnarkers did indeed watch instead of one they don’t. I don’t watch toooooo many fuckery weird programs ( okay Shelly okay). For Switch Hitter this week I…
Welcome to animation quick look, in short I watch a few episodes of an animated series and tell you if it’s worth a damn. Last week, I reviewed Attack on Titan. It was fantastic but also brutal so admittedly I was looking for something a little lighter. Blood Lad is about Staz, a powerful but…
A lot of people think anything animated (with the possible exception of stuff on Fox/FX) is kiddy fare meant to sell crappy toys. But animation is just a film style. There is kid stuff, drama, sci fi, procedurals, historical epics, comedies and so on (and ok lots of weird ass porn, but this isn’t going…
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,…
I’m a bit of a talk show junkie. Chances are, I’m actually watching someone promote their new show than the show itself. Not many people could pull off what Ferguson does on a nightly basis. He doesn’t have emmy award nominated teams of writers. He seemingly wings it every night, flying without a net. And…
This week I might have been confused but I did a Switch Hitter and not a SLIW. I’ve been in a Walter White Christmas induced fugue state, forgive me. I picked Ultimate Survivor Alaska on Nat Geo. I don’t know if there have been ultimate Survivors in Maine, Virginia, or Arizona..I assume not. But I…
Long Island Medium TLC Let’s just say my pick of Long Island Medium as the Switch Hitter topic has been somewhat controversial around the screensnark water cooler (which I think needs a filter change, who is in charge of that?). Some have called foul. The idea of the Switch Hitter segment is to make others…
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…
It was my turn to choose this installment of “Some Like It Watched”, so I pulled up a recent Nielsen Ratings list and decided to pick a highly rated show that I had never seen. Castle was #9 on this particular list. I wanted to get some witnesses and figure out what the big deal…