‘True Blood’ 7.09 Recap: “Get Over Yourself, Bill”
I just don’t understand what the producers of ‘True Blood’ are trying to accomplish this season. Here we are at the second-to-last episode that the series will ever air, and once again almost nothing...
View Article‘True Blood’ Series Finale Recap: “You Deserve the World”
Partway through the series finale of ‘True Blood’, Pam asks Eric, “Are you just winging it or do you have a plan here?” I’d like to ask the same of the show’s writers. After seven years, is this really...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ 3.01 Recap: “An Unwelcome Opportunity to Be Sure”
Followers of my past recaps of ‘The Newsroom’ and/or my reviews of the Blu-rays already know my position on this HBO series. I was a huge fan of the first season, but I thought Season 2 almost...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ 3.02 Recap: “You Walked Right Past the Waffles”
Despite not having anything to do with a historical news story, nor even featuring any scenes of characters delivering an on-the-air report or commentary, the second episode of the final season of ‘The...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ 3.03 Recap: “I Still Don’t See Any Way We Can Survive”
After opening the season with two strong episodes, it’s perhaps no surprise that this week’s entry of ‘The Newsroom’ is a little weaker. However, it’s still a good episode that continues the major...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ 3.04 Recap: “I Find Your Irish Stoicism Irritating”
One of my favorite things about ‘The Newsroom’ was the idea that the show would take major real-life news stories and provide “hindsight” commentary (although not for the characters) on the events....
View Article‘The Newsroom’ 3.05 Recap: “It Looks Like Urine”
The penultimate episode of ‘The Newsroom’ turns out to be a rather mixed bag, with some good and some not-so-good subplots, plus a shocker of an ending that I’m still not sure how I feel about. The...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ Series Finale Recap: “Be a Father, It Lives Up to the Hype”
In the series finale of ‘The Newsroom’, Will McAvoy gives up being a news anchor and joins a Country-Western band! Well, that’s exactly what it may have felt like to viewers who tuned in late to the...
View Article‘Togetherness’ Pilot Recap: “You Gotta Know When to Kick Him in the Nuts”
HBO has a habit of developing half-hour comedies (“sitcom” isn’t quite the right word) by indie filmmakers who like to blur the line between comedy and drama. Some stick while others don’t. The...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 5.01 Recap: “We All Must Choose”
In these days when so much television programming is dominated by mindless and repetitive crime procedurals, it’s kind of amazing that a show as labyrinthine, ambitious and often difficult as ‘Game of...
View Article‘Veep’ 4.01 Recap: “We Will Be Ready for the Future Whatever”
HBO’s brilliant political satire ‘Veep’ is back for its fourth season. Considering how last year ended, shouldn’t the series consider a title change? That’s right, the woefully out-of-her-depth Selina...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 5.02 Recap: “Nothing’s Worth Anything to Dead Men”
As expected, ‘Game of Thrones’ catches up this week with some characters who didn’t make the cut for the season premiere. Throughout most of its storylines, the dominant themes in this episode are...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 5.03 Recap: “The Sweetest King Who Ever Lived”
‘Game of Thrones’ has so many characters that, even three episodes into the new season, we’re still catching up with some we haven’t seen in a while. In most respects, a lot of little things happen in...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 5.04 Recap: “All Sinners Are Equal Before the Gods”
Did the Daenerys Targaryen storyline on ‘Game of Thrones’ finally get interesting again? It’s been a while. I’ve probably been unfair to this aspect of the show (which I assume also stems from the...
View Article‘Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck’ Review: Diary as Documentary
Kurt Cobain was a rock & roll tragedy for a generation who were already bummed out and expecting the worst. He became a legend almost immediately after his death, and the 20 years that have passed...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 5.05 Recap: “Long Sullen Silences and an Occasional Punch...
I need to keep reminding myself that ‘Game of Thrones’ has always been a slow burn. We’re halfway through the current season now and most of the storylines have had very little movement. Watching...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 5.06 Recap: “Let’s Not Do Something Stupid”
Weddings in the ‘Game of Thrones’ universe are such guaranteed miserable occasions, it’s a wonder that anyone would ever consent to get married. Yes, it’s time for another awful Westeros marriage...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 5.07 Recap: “It Can Always Be Worse”
I know that I shouldn’t try to judge this whole season until it’s done, because something amazing could still happen in the next three episodes, but ‘Game of Thrones’ feels like it’s in a holding...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 5.08 Recap: “Belief Is So Often the Death of Reason”
As if in response to complaints about how slowly this season has moved, ‘Game of Thrones’ delivered one of its hugest action set-pieces ever this week. The show usually reserves these things for the...
View Article‘Entourage’ Review: The Bros Are Back
The best thing that can be said about the ‘Entourage’ movie is that fans of the HBO series should love it. Unfortunately, that’s also the worst thing that can be said about the movie, given that the...
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