‘True Blood’ 6.08 Recap: “Don’t Drink the Blood”
I’ve been complaining for a while now that this season of ‘True Blood’ has done a lousy job of identifying which of its many antagonist characters is supposed to be the ultimate villain. As things have...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ 2.04 Recap: “Your Movement Sucks”
After last week’s episode, I felt that ‘The Newsroom’ was getting back to the quality we saw in the first season. However, Episode 4 (entitled ‘Unintended Consequences’) is so predictable and poorly...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.09 Recap: “I Really Don’t See What Was the Point of That”
Even when it’s good (and while this season hasn’t been the greatest, it’s generally been an improvement over the last couple), ‘True Blood’ can be an endlessly frustrating show. We’re six seasons in...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ 2.05 Recap: “Tonight, We Settle All Family Business”
I’m still not sure what to make of this season of ‘The Newsroom’. The positive news is this week’s episode (‘News Night with Will McAvoy’) is the strongest entry of the season. The bad news is that it...
View ArticleDo Not Pass Go – Win ‘Boardwalk Empire: Season Three’ on Blu-ray!
It’s time to give away another TV series box set, and I think you guys will like this one. (Something tells me that this will go over better than the copy of ‘Girls’ we almost gave away last week.)...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.10 Recap: “Forever’s a Rare Thing in This World”
True to form, ‘True Blood’ ended its sixth season with another anticlimactic, underwhelming finale episode, as it has so many times before. Sometimes it feels like the writers have never watched any...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ 2.06 Recap: “None of It Was True”
Finally! After using this weekly recap to gripe and complain about the drop in quality on ‘The Newsroom’ this season, Episode 6 (‘One Step Too Many’) delivers the kind of fun that has been missing so...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ 2.07 Recap: “An Institutional Failure”
Episode 7 of ‘The Newsroom’ is the one that viewers have been waiting for all season long. The Genoa story finally makes it onto the air and the lies behind it begin to unravel. While the episode...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ 2.08 Recap: “I’ve Appointed Myself in Charge of Morale”
It’s the beginning of the end for ‘The Newsroom’ in ‘Election Night, Part 1′, this season’s penultimate episode. The fallout of the Genoa story has hurt the reputation of the ‘News Night’ team, and...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ 2.09 Recap: “What I Have Can’t Be Taught”
One wonders if ‘Election Night, Part II’ was written with the thought that it might be a series ender for ‘The Newsroom’. The Season 2 finale has no cliffhangers, and at least two major characters wind...
View Article‘Hello Ladies’ Pilot Recap: “I Don’t Know What the Rules Are Here”
As an editor, the title of Stephen Merchant’s new HBO comedy series ‘Hello Ladies’ troubles me. Grammatically, the title should read ‘Hello, Ladies’ with a comma after the greeting “hello” that...
View Article‘True Detective’ Pilot Recap: “A Man Without a Family Can Be a Bad Thing”
From its opening credits to the final shot, the first episode of ‘True Detective’ proves to be the best TV pilot I’ve seen in a long time. HBO’s new anthology series (which will only run eight...
View Article‘True Detective’ 1.02 Recap: “In the End, It’s for the Good of the Family”
Episode 2 of TV’s best new series manages to give viewers a little more insight into the occult-like killing of Dora Lange, and a whole lot of additional information about Martin Hart and Rust Cohle,...
View Article‘True Detective’ 1.03 Recap: “The World Needs Bad Men”
As detectives Martin Hart and Rust Cohle get closer to catching their killer, Martin’s home life begins to unravel on him in the latest episode of ‘True Detective’, which continues to be the...
View Article‘True Detective’ 1.04 Recap: “We’re Not Going to Give You the Oscar, No...
After taking a week off for the Super Bowl, HBO’s ‘True Detective’ returned this week with the most action-packed episode to date, featuring an amazingly filmed tracking shot that we’ll discuss in a...
View Article‘True Detective’ 1.05 Recap: “There’s a Shadow in You, Son”
Once again, there’s a lot going on in this week’s episode of ‘True Detective’ (entitled ‘The Secret Fate of All Life’) as detectives Martin Hart and Rust Cohle track down their prime suspect, and...
View Article‘True Detective’ 1.06 Recap: “Without Me, There Is No You”
With the 1995 flashbacks seemingly wrapped up, ‘True Detective’ turns to the events of 2002 in this week’s episode, as viewers finally find out what led to a parting of the ways between detectives...
View Article‘True Detective’ 1.07 Recap: “You Have a Debt”
The penultimate episode of ‘True Detective’ this season presents such an onslaught of case information that I’m not sure I was able to keep up with it all. What I do know is that Rust Cohle and Martin...
View Article‘True Detective’ 1.08 Recap: “It’s Just One Story”
‘True Detective’ wrapped up its eight-episode storyline this week… and I’m still not sure how to feel about it. After teasing viewers for weeks about hidden connections and even possibly a surprise...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 4.01 Recap: “There’s a Certain Safety in Death”
In what fans have eagerly awaited for the better part of a year, HBO’s epic ‘Game of Thrones’ returned for its fourth season on Sunday. By now, viewers should realize that the show rarely-front loads...
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