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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…

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Guilty Watches: Gigolos

Just a forewarning, this article is going to be graphic.  It’s about a show that involves middlecore fucking.  Gigolos is a half hour program on Showtime about 5 different gigolos around the Las Vegas area.  An extremely simple premise that within that one sentence should tell you why this is a guilty watch. Just some…

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True Detective S1E5 Review, “The Secret Fate of All Life”

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…

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True Detective S1E4 Review, “Who Goes There”

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…