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SXSW: Postscript Coverage
Well, THAT wasn’t as exciting as I hoped it would be. Continue reading
“‘Room 104’ Ends Its Intriguing Storytelling Experiment With A Genre-Bending Final Season”
A room with a view to horror, humor, heartache, heroism, and even horniness. Continue reading
“‘Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story Of Roy Cohn’ Is A Deeply Personal Look At The Political Figure’s Awfulness “
Don’t let the “victim” fool you. Roy Cohn was, is, and will always be viewed as a large diameter asshole. Continue reading
“‘I May Destroy You’: A Superb Twist On Millennial Slackerdom”
Tip for creators: I’m an easy lay for a really great, grabby title. Continue reading
“‘Westworld’ Season 3 Finally Lets Us In On What It All Means”
If it’s HBO and I’m writing about it, it’s probably “Westworld.” Continue reading
“Deadwood: The Movie Made Good On Al Swearengen’s Loose Ends”
Here’re a few stray f**kin’ thoughts about that “Deadwood” movie those c**ksuckers at HBO finally f**kin’ put out for all of us regular b*stards to watch last month. Continue reading
“‘Sharp Objects’ Is Relentlessly Grim Summer Viewing
Summer’s a time to brighten up, warm up, and feel good, so if you’re in the mood to feel bad, your options are limited. You could watch The Handmaid’s Tale, which will force you to feel bad and also just naturally make you feel bad with its badness; you could also skip that and watch the … Continue reading
“The World-Burning Of Michael B. Jordan”
Michael B. Jordan, right? What an actor. What a fire starter, too. The guy loves burning shit. It’s almost his bread and butter, at least in 2018, where his two biggest roles play literally and metaphorically with fire (and sometimes both). See: Black Panther and Fahrenheit 451. (Actually see Black Panther, too. Don’t just consider it as evidence. … Continue reading
“Can Anyone Really Escape Westworld?”
…but really, can anyone escape Westworld? No. Not in the least. Even if you do not watch Westworld, it’s everywhere in your feeds and in your grill, so basically you’re stuck with it until it goes off the air (and even then, people still talk about it). But that’s okay! Westworld is great in the way that all dark prestige … Continue reading
Game of Theories: Why We’re So Fixated on “Figuring Out” Game of Thrones
By now, y’all have probably forgotten that I watch Game of Thrones. This is because I don’t write much about Game of Thrones, except for when I feel the impulse to swoop in and pour disdain on Internet hysteria over needless, manipulative plot contrivances. But I’m back, writing about Game of Thrones once more, this time for the … Continue reading
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: Veep, 1.1: Fundraiser
By now it’s indisputable that Armando Iannucci has the market cornered on fly-on-the-wall, documentary-style political satire. The man behind not only 2009’s outstanding In the Loop as well as 2005’s BBC Four program The Thick of It, Iannucci has essentially built a career on both the style and content that characterize the vast majority of his output– … Continue reading
TV Review: Girls, 1.1: Pilot
If the pilot episode of HBO’s Girls tells us anything, it’s that the show– sprung from the mind of Lena Dunham– has a lot of potential. That’s a fairly inarticulate expression of my opinion of the show, inasmuch as it’s an incredibly broad conclusion, but that’s actually a fairly loaded statement. What kind of potential … Continue reading
TV Review: Game of Thrones, 2.1: The North Remembers
(Note: I feel like tagging this with spoiler warnings is unnecessary, but just in case, this is going to be very spoiler heavy. If you haven’t finished S1, stay away.) Ready for more political maneuvering, martial strategy, medieval barbarism, societal division, and steadily burgeoning elements of high fantasy? What may be somewhat startling about the … 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
TV Review: Game of Thrones, Episodes 4-5
(In which I talk of Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things and The Wolf and the Lion.) Well, things are picking up quite nicely in the enthralling political and social dramas unfolding in Westeros and the lands across the Narrow Sea, aren’t they? As I said in the last installment, Game of Thrones‘ first few episodes … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 