Angsty white kids in the zombiepocalypse are the worst.

I recently fell into a BoJack Horseman, a 30-minute Netflix comedy-drama (dramedy? tragicomedy?) about washed-up late-1980s sitcom star who is also a horse. Anthropomorphic animals live alongside humans, and I figured it was animated and 30 mins and I needed something fun to help the brain heal in the aftermath of The Battle at Hardhome Bar Exam. ( Read more... )

-- ‘Looking’ for Complexity: Why HBO’s Great Show Can’t Seem to Break Out - Andy Greenwald, Grantland, Mar. 23, 2015

"Earlier this month, a shadowy cabal of industry types sequestered themselves in a conference room to determine the difference between comedy and drama. At the end of their labor, definitive verdicts were announced. Jane the Virgin ( Read more... )

Since I started watching Battlestar Galactica, I've been nothing but impressed. The beauty and chief utility of science fiction is its ability to operate as its own reality and a metaphor in the same instance. The parallels to the Iraq War and to America's legacy of racism in the first two seasons was, in my opinion, incredibly well done. And now, ( Read more... )

It might've been around 3 days ago or so, Feb. 2, I finished my Mad Men project. I'd intended, before leaving Paris, to binge watch all 6 and a half seasons before arriving in Paris until I realized that I actually...didn't have to. The final bunch of episodes wouldn't be airing until some time in the spring so I was able to operate at a much ( Read more... )

-- Difficult Films: ‘Are You Here’ and Why Some of TV’s Most Celebrated Showrunners Fail at the Movies - Steven Hyden, Grantland, Sept. 30, 2014 ( Read more... )

-- "True Detective" Finale by Anne Helen Petersen, Lili Loofbourow, Evan Kindley & Phillip Maciak - Anne Helen Petersen, Lili Loofbourow, Evan Kindley & Phillip Maciak - Los Angeles Review of Books - March 11, 2014 ( Read more... )

-- Turmoil on 'Tyrant': The Dramatic Backstory of FX's Middle East Epic - Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, June 4, 2014 ( Read more... )

-- La Violencia - Ed Vulliamy, Guernica, Nov. 2010 ( Read more... )

Also, please pardon the absence. I've spent the past few days binge-watching the first two seasons of Game of Thrones. I'd resisted temptation long enough and figured now during Spring Break before the Season 3 premiere was as good a time as any to join the flock. I'd not read the books past the very first chapter of A Game of Thrones back in ( Read more... )