‘Game of Thrones’ 4.02 Recap: “Not So Pretty Now”
So much for starting the season off at a slow boil. In an episode written by George R.R. Martin himself, ‘Game of Thrones’ just delivered a major bombshell. And it is oh so delicious. I’m going to jump...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 4.03 Recap: “What Makes a Good King?”
In an episode focused on dealing with the fallout from last week’s bombshell, ‘Game of Thrones’ does not deliver any huge, shocking plot twists this week. However, one deviation from the source...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 4.04 Recap: “You Want to Fight Pretty or You Want to Win?”
It would seem that the controversial scene in last week’s episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ that got many fans all riled up has ultimately not led to much. This week’s new episode essentially brushes it...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 4.05 Recap: “Long May He Reign”
In this week’s episode of ‘Game of Thrones’, Westeros has a new king, and a lingering mystery from Season 1 finally gets answered. Episode ‘First of His Name’ commences with the official crowning of...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 4.06 Recap: “This Is Turning into a Lovely Evening”
When the “Previously on…” clip at the start this week played a montage of all the enemies that Tyrion has made throughout the series, I could tell that this would be a very fun episode of ‘Game of...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 4.07 Recap: “Dying Is Thirsty Work”
Although fans will no doubt balk at the description, ‘Game of Thrones’ may be the greatest primetime soap opera to ever air on television. It has such delightfully awful characters who do such terrible...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 4.08 Recap: “The Pillar and the Stones”
Did ‘Game of Thrones’ foreshadow the plot twist in this week’s episode a little too heavily a few weeks back? The scene played out much as I expected it to. I’m not sure whether I would classify that...
View ArticlePoll: Will You Watch Damon Lindelof’s New TV Show?
If you have HBO, you’ve probably seen the ads for the network’s upcoming Rapture-themed summer series ‘The Leftovers’. Like many viewers, you may have thought the show looked interesting until the...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 4.09 Recap: “Do You Plan to Die Here Tonight?”
Fans of ‘Game of Thrones’ should realize by now that the show does not climax in its season finale episodes. In each year to date, the proverbial shit has hit the fan in the penultimate episode. True...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 4.10 Recap: “The Dead Can’t Hear Us”
Over the past week, the producers of ‘Game of Thrones’ have made the PR rounds promising that, contrary to previous seasons, the show’s finale episode this year would be big – the biggest season finale...
View Article‘True Blood’ 7.01 Recap: “Every Human Needs a Vampire”
This weekend, HBO’s once super-hot vampire drama ‘True Blood’ started its seventh and reportedly final season. It’s no secret to fans that the show has been on the wane for a few years already. With an...
View Article‘True Blood’ 7.02 Recap: “Today Is a Dark Day”
The best part of this week’s new episode of ‘True Blood’ may have been the end credits listing for a character described as “Uppity Townswoman.” That should tell you a lot about the episode already. ‘I...
View Article‘The Leftovers’ Pilot Recap: “God Sat This One Out”
With the premiere of HBO’s new drama series ‘The Leftovers’, I’m experiencing an overwhelming urge to make a pun about the show feeling warmed-over or stale. That title is practically begging for it....
View Article‘True Blood’ 7.03 Recap: “Immortality’s Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be”
Even though, overall, this week’s new episode of ‘True Blood’ is an improvement over last week’s filler episode, I fear that it marks a trend for how this final season will play out. I’m certainly not...
View Article‘The Leftovers’ 1.02 Recap: “Magic F—ing Hugs”
You know, I didn’t originally plan to recap any more of HBO’s new drama series ‘The Leftovers’ beyond the premiere. However, with the second episode, I feel the need to vent about just how awful the...
View Article‘True Blood’ 7.04 Recap: “This Place Smells Like Sperm and Piss and Bad Hair...
For the majority of its running time, I was convinced that this week’s new ‘True Blood’ was just another filler episode designed to bide time between more important plot-points. Surprisingly, by the...
View Article‘True Blood’ 7.05 Recap: “Like Being Kicked in the Cooch by a Wallaby”
For the second week in a row, ‘True Blood’ spends the better part of an hour meandering through storylines with little urgency before climaxing in a last-minute action scene designed to keep viewers on...
View Article‘True Blood’ 7.06 Recap: “Nothing Left to Do But Wait”
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that this final season of ‘True Blood’ is simply biding its time to fill a required number of episodes before the eventual finale. This week’s episode is literally...
View Article‘True Blood’ 7.07 Recap: “Not Dead Yet”
What a surprise – another episode of ‘True Blood’ where hardly anything notable happens. I feel like this whole final season could have been avoided had the producers decided to just wrap the show up...
View Article‘True Blood’ 7.08 Recap: “We’re Doing Something Stupid, Aren’t We?”
‘True Blood’ keeps killing off characters, because that’s apparently what you do when your series finale approaches and it doesn’t matter what happens to them anymore anyway. However, determining...
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