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True Detective S1E8 Review, “Form and Void”

So we’ve closed out the first season of True Detective.  Turns out none of my predictions from last week came to fruition.  The True Detectives made it out alive, there was no super-trippy mindfuck, and the conspiracy has (apparently) been brought to its knees.  Are you not entertained? Well, I can’t really say that I…

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Crossing Streams: Harper’s Island

Crossing Streams is Screensnark’s article that is truly ruled by randomness.  We randomly select a television show from Netflix, and then randomly select episodes for our commentators to watch.  This week the show was Harper’s Island, a “horror/mystery/thriller” miniseries that was on CBS 2008-2009 for one season.   Never heard of it, looks goofy.  Anyhow…

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Daily Snark: The Americans S2E1-2

Not nearly enough time to devote to this outstanding show, but I wanted to make sure to post some praise while it was still fresh in my mind. I recently binge watched the first season and absolutely loved it.  The level of tactical expertise and strategic talent required to elicit a convincing portrayal of Soviet…

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True Detective S1E7 Review, “After You’ve Gone”

True Detective, an enigmatic creative roller coaster, from both a quality standpoint and a content standpoint. Having had a day to digest episode 7 (I spent my Sunday night watching the Oscars and still haven’t seen the last 10 minutes of Dynamo Daryl Dixon’s Dirty Dance of Death) and had a glance around the Internet,…

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True Detective S1E6 Review, “Haunted Houses”

So when it comes to true crime TV drama, I’m obviously tough to please.  At this point, I’ve seen all of The Wire, and I’ve seen all of The Shield.  So if something new is coming at me in the same vein, I’m instinctively looking at them by comparing them to the best of what…

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Screensnark Editorial-Shiny Happy People

After 9 days in the hospital, I’d felt amazing.  Very optimistic on life and here’s something I wrote that I felt didn’t really fit within the breadth of the rest of the stuff, partly because it’s way longer and more thought out than some of the goofy shit I wrote and partly because I think…