TV Review: Game of Thrones, 2.7 and 2.8: A Man Without Honor/The Prince of Winterfell

In this week’s recap of Game of Thrones: matters of honor, respectability, personal identity, and forward plot progression. Also, good, clean, healthy, romantic love. For once. Continue reading →

TV Review: Girls, Episodes 2-5 Round-Up

I’ve finally gotten around to catching up on the rest of ‘Girls’– a show that’s honestly just as much for men as it is for women– and I really dig it. Continue reading →

TV Review: Game of Thrones, 2.5 & 2.6: The Ghost of Harrenhal/The Old Gods and the New

Doubling up again on the show’s second season installments, this week I ponder and analyze the events of the fifth and sixth episodes of S2– including the shocking reduction in overall nakedness, the repercussions of poorly-employed authority, and the inexperience of youth. Continue reading →

TV Review: Game of Thrones, 2.3 & 2.4: What Is Dead May Never Die/Garden of Bones

How about that time when I wrote about how sex in Game of Thrones has consequences? If I didn’t convince you with my argument the first time around, no doubt the final scene in Garden of Bones did, though both the fourth and third episodes of the season both do nothing to undermine that running theme. Is that slowly … Continue reading →

TV Review: Game of Thrones, episodes 9 & 10

Well, I’ll say this for the marketing team behind Game of Thrones— they can’t be accused of false advertising. Baelor and Fire and Blood wrap up the first season of the series, and what a pair of episodes they are. I don’t think I need to warn anyone reading this of imminent spoilers, so with … Continue reading →