Vinyl: “Pilot”
Vinyl has a hell of a reputation already. Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter shuttered Boardwalk Empire earlier than planned so they could get cracking on this show, and it proudly….
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Game of Thrones Season 6 House Teaser Videos
Game of Thrones season 6 is almost upon up, and HBO is teasing said return through the Game of Thrones Twitter. Below you will find three teaser videos for three….
Game of Thrones Season 6 Teaser Takes Us Down Memory Lane
“The past is already written. The ink is dry.” The teaser for season six of Game of Thrones is here, and it forces us to relive some of the most….
Show Me a Hero: “Part Six”
(Author’s note: I had actually written a review of “Part Five” – a damn good one, false modesty aside – and Margaux pointed out to me that it was cut….
Show Me a Hero: “Part Three”
With “Part Three,” Show Me a Hero becomes the bitter polemic it threatened to become with its first two installments. This is an angry, remonstrative hour of television, but remarkably it never….
Show Me a Hero: “Part Two”
Show Me a Hero really wastes no time, does it? The show is clearly aiming at an American epic, a story spanning years, with a huge cast of characters. So far….
Show Me a Hero: “Part One”
It would be so easy for Show Me a Hero to be cynical. This is a show that features people actively resisting change, whether by loudly protesting the addition of low-income housing….
Sesame Street signs five-year deal with HBO
The next five seasons of Sesame Street will be brought to you by the letters H, B, and O. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind the Emmy Award-winning program….
True Detective: “Church in Ruins”
Some episodes of a show are just a pain in the ass to grade. “Church in Ruins” is one of those. There were two-star sequences and four-star sequences; some of….
True Detective: “Other Lives”
That two-month time jump might have been the best possible thing for True Detective‘s second season. After all, how do you follow up a sequence like last week’s breathless shootout? But….
Here are your 2015 Emmy nominees
I gotta admit, I always forget that the Emmys don’t go down in the usual awards season of January-March, so the announcement of nominees always catches me somewhat by surprise…..
True Detective: “Maybe Tomorrow”
Ray’s not dead. We all knew he wasn’t going to kick the bucket, but True Detective spends about as much time resolving its cliffhanger as I just did: Ray’s not dead. The….