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7 Minutes

Television | Reviews

Fargo: “Did You Do This? No, You Did It!”

T. Dawson November 24, 2015

Margaux and I were floored by this week’s stellar Fargo. Trevor: I love episodes of Fargo like “Did You Do This? No, You Did It!” It was funny, tense, well-acted, superbly directed (by Keith Gordon, aka...

6 Minutes

Television | Reviews

Fargo: “Rhinoceros”

T. Dawson November 17, 2015

Margaux and I spend Tuesday doing what we love best: gushing about Fargo. Trevor: Fargo has really become more of an ensemble show this season – tellingly, Noah Hawley isn’t writing every episode by himself, as...

7 Minutes

Television | Reviews

Fargo: “The Gift of the Magi”

T. Dawson November 10, 2015

Margaux and I talk about last night’s intense episode of Fargo. Trevor: Fargo excels at openings, but even for this show, that was a hell of an opening. Hearing Reagan’s speech over footage of the Kansas...

6 Minutes

Television | Reviews

Fargo: “Fear and Trembling”

T. Dawson November 3, 2015

Another week, another predictably great episode of Fargo for Margaux and I to flip out over. Trevor: Fargo is so goddamn good that it’s going to put us out of a job (or at least it would...

8 Minutes

Television | Reviews

Fargo: “The Myth of Sisyphus”

T. Dawson October 27, 2015

Margaux and I talk about last night’s funny, tense Fargo. Trevor: Sisyphus in Greek mythology was sentenced to an eternity in Hades, where he would push a boulder up a hill, only to have it roll...

4 Minutes

Television | Reviews

The Bastard Executioner: “Behold the Lamb/Gweled yr Oen”

T. Dawson October 21, 2015

(Author’s note: sorry I haven’t been reviewing this lately. Without cable, access to this show has been hard to get, doubly so since FX doesn’t put it on Hulu. But now I have the...

8 Minutes

Television | Reviews

Fargo: “Before the Law”

T. Dawson October 20, 2015

Margaux and I talk another brilliant episode of Fargo. Trevor: I love being wrong about actors and actresses. I was skeptical of Kirsten Dunst’s involvement in Fargo – simply put, I didn’t think she had the...

6 Minutes

Television | Reviews

Fargo: “Waiting for Dutch”

T. Dawson October 13, 2015

Margaux and I hail the return of Fargo, the best show on TV. Trevor: Fargo was my favorite show of 2014. The first season is pretty much perfect, top to bottom. How is it possible, then, that...

5 Minutes

Television | Reviews

American Horror Story: Hotel: “Checking In”

T. Dawson October 8, 2015

At what point does a celebrity’s involvement in a project become a distraction, something that takes the viewer (or reader, or listener, or what have you) out of what is supposed to be an...

4 Minutes

Television | Reviews

The Bastard Executioner: “A Hunger/Newyn”

T. Dawson September 30, 2015

Kurt Sutter wasted no time indulging his baser instincts with The Bastard Executioner. Graphic torture? Check. Needlessly complicated schemes? Check. Overlong running time? Check. Unwarranted Gaelic in the episode title? Better believe that’s a check. Man,...

3 Minutes

Television | Reviews

The Bastard Executioner: “Effigy/Delw”

T. Dawson September 24, 2015

(Author’s note: sorry this is going up late. I’m gonna level with you, I blew out my back yesterday and didn’t feel up to writing a review. Plus, I already wrote two reviews of...

4 Minutes

Television | Reviews

The Bastard Executioner: “Pilot, Parts 1 and 2”

T. Dawson September 16, 2015

It’s easy to look at the promos for The Bastard Executioner and assume that it will be Game of Thrones by way of Sons of Anarchy – that is, none of the mysticism or subtlety of the former, but...