The Wire (2002-2008)
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
The Wire – Season 1
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
Boardwalk Empire – “A Dangerous Maid” & “What Does the Bee Do?”
Boardwalk Empire – “A Dangerous Maid” So I didn’t do any blogging last week so I’m kind of doing double-duty this week to catch up. So first I’m going over last week’s episode before moving on to this week’s. So apparently a little thing like pregnancy will not keep clothes on Lucy Danziger! Between this … Continue reading
Boardwalk Empire – “Ourselves Alone”
Boardwalk Empire – “Ourselves Alone” The conspiracy marches on. Satisfied that Nucky has been arrested on charges of election fraud, the Commodore attempts to recruit Atlantic City’s aldermen. Jimmy meanwhile attempts to get Arnold Rothstein to begin dealing with them instead of Nucky for the booze trade. Rothstein politely declines but Lucky Luciano and Meyer … Continue reading
Community – “The Geography of Global Conflict”
Community – “The Geography of Global Conflict” Okay, the only real problem I have with this week’s Community is that the interesting characters introduced last week played by Michael Kenneth Williams and John Goodman are nowhere to be seen. On that note, neither is Jim Rash as the unusual dean of Greendale Community college. That’s … Continue reading
Boardwalk Empire – “21”
Boardwalk Empire – “21” Boardwalk Empire was neck-in-neck last year with The Walking Dead for my favorite new show of 2010. The show started strong and slowly built to awesomeness. The second season begins on a mellower note (save for one burst of machine gun violence and a raid) but teases the approaching storm. The … Continue reading
Community – “Biology 101”
Community – “Biology 101” Community might just be my favorite sitcom on television right now. First, and most importantly, it’s hilarious. It also experiments with genre and style. How many other sitcoms have episodes that were spaghetti westerns, fantasy epics, or Claymation Christmas specials? At the heart of it though, it’s about the characters. You … Continue reading
The Road (2009)
The Road (2009) — John Hillcoat’s previous film The Proposition was compared to the novels of Cormac McCarthy: a taciturn western with a bleak tone and intense violence. Fitting then that Hillcoat’s second film is from a Cormac McCarthy novel. Not a western, but definitely bleak and violent. The post-apocalyptic setting of The Road really … Continue reading
Persistence of Vision 