There’s a clear path this first season is taking and no indication that it should have any trouble reaching its end. It could afford to take more risks, but that’s hardly the most egregious of flaws, especially for summer programming.
Power is somewhat of a similar beast in terms of the kind of story it’s telling, but its pace and tone are much more attuned to the Starz identity.
The possible story of illegal chemical weapons being used by the US against enemy combatants has been a looming issue over the ACN team over the second season of The Newsroom, particularly as the discussions with Rebecca Halliday and her team indicate a massive failure. The first signs of the breakdown became visible in the closing moments of last week’s episode, and this week explores the full scope of the fallout from the discovery of the story’s falsehood, delivering an episode that, while not necessarily divulging any new information, nonetheless is a fascinating one that leaves several characters in interesting places by the end.
It would be really great to be able to say something like “At last…a good episode in True Blood’s sixth season,” but “At Last” chugs along at the sluggish pace the season has been going on. At this point, the reveals aren’t very shocking or interesting. So, when Ben turns out to be Warlow, it doesn’t have the same impact of a revelation of that caliber that might appear in another show which treats its mystery with more care.
Red Tails Directed by Anthony Hemingway Screenplay by John Ridley 2012, USA George Lucas tried for more than twenty years to get a movie made about the Tuskegee Airmen, the all-black fighter pilot unit that served during the Second World War. As with most passion projects, the biggest victory (getting the story made at all) …