"Television is a goddamned amusement park."
The Game of Thrones Season 4 finale is, for my money, the best season finale the creators have delivered thus far. The show achieved notoriety for its penchant of delivering the big series impacts not in the season finale but in the penultimate episode. The beheading of Ned Stark. The Battle of Blackwater. The Red …
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It is a difficult task to write about something so well intended and earnest as HBO’s The Normal Heart. It’s clear that the filmmakers and cast are wholly invested in this story and its broader social implications, and those intentions should (and will) be showered with rewards. But if I’m being honest, it is an …
HBO announced recently that it is officially reviving its early 2000s reality show Project Greenlight. Executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, the series first aired on HBO in late 2001 (later moving to Bravo for its third season) and initially provided a single screenplay contest winner the opportunity to direct his/her own work. Subsequent seasons …
Game of Thrones came back last night after “the episode” wherein Jaime raped Cersei. As expected, she put him right in his place after what he did to her, her pain clear on her face, her order for him to seek out and kill Sansa plainly clear. But the show continues to want us to …
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I’ve just heard that Veep’s ratings are down slightly, even after Julia Louis Dreyfus did what most women have to do who are looking for a leg up in the entertainment industry: showed some skin. Veep had a stumble or two heading into this season – it didn’t feel quite as funny. Mad Men, for …
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Good news for people who don’t subscribe to HBO, but bad news for Netflix. Beginning May 21, Amazon Prime will start streaming a pant load of HBO shows, movies and specials. Every episode of The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Rome and Six Feet Under, Eastbound & Down, Enlightened, Flight of the Concords and Oz; selected seasons …
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I’ve just about had it with the internet. I used to think, wow it’s so great that there are so many young strong voices protesting things that matter. I used to think that the youth’s collective outrage over things like sexual assault and racism was a good thing. But what it has turned into, what …
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[Ed. Please welcome the first of what will hopefully be many contributions from Clarence Moye (@chmoye). There’s no new girls tonight, but it’s a perfect time to look back at how this season went.] “Guys, we’re so disconnected now. I thought that this would be a good opportunity to have fun together and prove to …
You may or may not have seen last night’s wicked installment of Game of Thrones. But if you have you probably don’t want to read further. But if you’ve already seen it, and/or read the books, you will already know which character was ejected from the series. Finally, that little twerp Joffrey got what he …
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Sunday night’s HBO settle-in brought back two solid season premieres of the best HBO has to offer right now: Game of Thrones and Veep. It also introduced a new series, Silicon Valley, by Mike Judge, which suffered greatly for delivering a singularly male vision of the tech industry. This did two things to sabotage the …
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