In Westeros, you’re no one if you haven’t almost been raped. At this point, the almost raped/successfully raped camp may outnumber those who have managed to avoid the “rape as a plot device” trick. Counting up those involved in a rape scenario (including rapers and rapees) Sansa, Cersei, Jaime, Brienne in most episodes she appears…
Yes, yes, yes, you can look anywhere for a review of “Breaker of Chains”, the latest fantastic installment of Game of Thrones. If you really want a great review, why not go to Grantland and read Andy Greenwald’s fantastic piece, the depth of which rivals the show itself. Instead, I’d like to wax poetic about…
Alas, His Grace Joffrey Baratheon, the First of His Name, King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm has left us all too soon. Or more precisely, Jack Gleeson, who portrayed Joffrey with unbelievable smarm and hearty helpings of unearned hubris and arrogance, combined with…
Review? Who am I kidding. Anything I write about this show could hardly be considered an unbiased review. Game of Thrones had me at hello. More appropriately, Game of Thrones had me at Hell, yo. The question that I can’t quite wrap my head around is, how can the show always be so damn good?…
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…
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,…
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…
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…