‘Game of Thrones’ 5.09 Recap: “I Fight and Die for Your Glory”
I guess ‘Game of Thrones’ didn’t blow its entire production budget for the season on that big action scene last week. In the penultimate episode of the season, the show builds to an (in my opinion,...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 5.10 Recap: “Only Death Can Pay for Life”
I seem to be way out of touch with ‘Game of Thrones’ fandom this season. I didn’t much care for the White Walker battle a couple episodes ago, which everyone else went completely gaga for. Then I...
View Article‘True Detective’ 2.01 Recap: “I Welcome Judgment”
It has been close to a year and a half since the first season of HBO’s ‘True Detective’ wrapped up, and it was one of the best first years of a TV series you’re going to find anywhere, past or present....
View Article‘Ballers’ Pilot Recap: “I’ve Done Some of My Best Work at Funerals”
Dwayne Johnson sure likes to keep busy. In case you didn’t already get enough of him on the big screen in ‘Furious 7′ and ‘San Andreas’ this year, The Rock is also starring in the new HBO half-hour...
View Article‘The Brink’ Pilot Recap: “Let’s Not Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste”
Well, that’s 0 for 2. Of HBO’s new summer comedies, the political satire ‘The Brink’ may not be as awful as ‘Ballers‘, but it’s still a huge missed opportunity. The show is intended to be a ‘Dr....
View Article‘True Detective’ 2.02 Recap: “We Get the World We Deserve”
After the disappointing season premiere , I was hoping that the second episode of ‘True Detective’ this year would engage me in a way the first episode didn’t. The bad news is that a big chunk of...
View Article‘True Detective’ 2.03 Recap: “No Country for White Men”
Remember those old movie serials where, at the end of a particular episode, the hero would drive his car off a cliff only to reveal in the next chapter that he jumped out before the car went over the...
View Article‘True Detective’ 2.04 Recap: “Sometimes Your Worst Self Is Your Best Self”
Hey everybody, it’s time to recap another episode of ‘True Detective’, the show that makes you pay close attention in order to unravel a mystery that you don’t give two hoots about. I’ve tried to give...
View Article‘True Detective’ 2.05 Recap: “Never Too Late to Start All Over Again”
I won’t go as far as to call this week’s episode of ‘True Detective’ a good one – the season is far too much of a mess to make that proclamation – but I will say that in terms of storytelling, this is...
View Article‘True Detective’ 2.06 Recap: “A Mexican Standoff with Actual Mexicans”
Despite the fact that the last couple of episodes have been much more coherent than what we got earlier in the season, I feel safe in saying now that Season 2 of ‘True Detective’ is a huge...
View Article‘True Detective’ 2.07 Recap: “You See Me Managing an Applebee’s?”
I think few would argue that the penultimate episode of ‘True Detective’ this season is one of the best. Now, don’t misunderstand me, I wouldn’t rank this week’s episode as a great hour of TV by any...
View Article‘True Detective’ 2.08 Recap: “We Deserve a Better World”
With no offense to those of you who actually enjoyed this second season, I sit here thanking the TV gods that ‘True Detective’ has finally wrapped up this story. No longer do I have to dread Sunday...
View Article2015 Emmy Winners
I’ve had so little interest in the Emmy Awards this year that, honestly, I didn’t even realize the ceremony was on this weekend until fellow blogger Shannon happened to mention it to me on Sunday...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 6.01 Recap: “We Need to Fight, But We Don’t Need to Die”
To the disappointment of the show’s many fans, the fifth season of ‘Game of Thrones’ was decidedly its weakest. As a consequence, the sixth season arrives with a lot less hype and anticipation than...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 6.02 Recap: “We All Fail Sometimes”
‘Game of Thrones’ delivers a big plot twist this week that, to be honest, is both disappointingly predictable and leaves me feeling conflicted about the direction the series is taking. I expect that it...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 6.03 Recap: “What Kind of God Would Have a Pecker That Small?”
After last week’s big revelation, ‘Game of Thrones’ settles down with a new episode in which, quite honestly, not a lot happens of significance except attempting to justify that plot twist. Castle...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 6.04 Recap: “I’m Not Here to Change the Way of the World”
In my opinion (which may not be shared by all fans), ‘Game of Thrones’ is rarely at its strongest when it goes for big action spectacle. My favorite episodes are those that focus on scheming and...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 6.05 Recap: “Hold the Door!”
‘Game of Thrones’ rides the proverbial rollercoaster of emotion this week. The majority of the episode is frustratingly dull and the big action climax is a retread of my least favorite scene from the...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 6.06 Recap: “Madness Has Had Its Day”
I had my issues with last week’s episode of ‘Game of Thrones’, but it ended with one hell of an emotional climax. Unfortunately, this week’s entry doesn’t offer anything so memorable. The North Fleeing...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 6.07 Recap: “It’s Never Too Late to Come Back”
I’m feeling really uneasy about the way that ‘Game of Thrones’ keeps bringing back characters assumed to be dead. That’s getting to be a bad habit for the show. It also makes clear a pattern that...
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