Posted by moviegeek916 on July 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Wire (2002-2008) – Okay, so I’ve tried to do this TV Blog a couple times… When I started up the blog I was writing about every episode of most shows I watched. It was a pain in the ass and was sapping the enjoyment I get out of television. I decided to abandon it … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on June 6, 2012 · 1 Comment
The Wire – Season 1 When I started this blog the idea was for it to be about movies AND television. For a while, and by a while I mean maybe the better part of a month, I maintained the TV blog writing about what shows I deemed worthy of writing about. However I am … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on May 29, 2012 · 2 Comments
The Simpsons – “A Streetcar Named Marge” All right, confession time: my very first exposure to Tennesse Williams’s classic play A Streetcar Named Desire came from this episode of The Simpsons. I am a 90s kid, no apologies. So after finally getting around to watching the great Elia Kazan film adaptation, I had to revisit … Continue reading →
Category Retro TV Blog, TV · Tagged with "At Seventeen", "Glory Days", A Streetcar Named Desire, Alfred Hitchcock, Ayn Rand, Elia Kazan, Glee, Janis Ian, Marlon Brando, Steve McQueen, Sweeney Todd, Tennesse Williams, The Birds, The Great Escape, The Simpsons
Posted by moviegeek916 on October 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Masters of Horror – John Carpenter‘s Cigarette Burns In 2005 I thought Showtime’s series Masters of Horror was about the coolest idea ever. Allowing icons of the horror film world to create hour-long movies every week free from network interference (though Showtime did end up declining to air Takashi Miike’s Imprint) was something I was … Continue reading →
Category Retro TV Blog · Tagged with 2005, Cigarette Burns, Drew McWeeny, horror, Imprint, John Carpenter, Masters of Horror, Norman Reedus, Scott Swan, Takashi Miike, The Boondock Saints, The Walking Dead, The Ward, Udo Kier
Persistence of Vision 