Boardwalk Empire, Season 3, Episode 3, “Bone For Tuna” Written by Chris Haddock Directed by Jeremy Podeswa Airs Sundays at 9pm (ET) on HBO Top moment this week: watching Bobby Cannavale and Gretchen Mol in their first scene together. It’s like watching a Great White and a cobra face off. Two entirely different but equally …
Boardwalk Empire Review, Season 3, Episode 2, “Spaghetti and Coffee” Directed by Howard Korder Written by Alik Sakharov Airs Sundays at 9pm (ET) on HBO I knew this episode of Boardwalk Empire was in trouble before it even started and that was because of the length of the recap. We’re only two episodes into the …
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The Newsroom, Season 1, Episode 9: “The Blackout Part 2: Mock Debate″ Written by Aaron Sorkin Directed by Alan Poul Airs Sundays at 10:00 PM ET on HBO Two-part episodes are never easy to pull off; on one hand, they can be freeing, as writers now find themselves with twice the amount of time to …
The Newsroom, Season 1, Episode 8: “The Blackout Part 1: Tragedy Porn″ Written by Aaron Sorkin Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter Airs Sundays at 10:00 PM ET on HBO The question of ratings versus quality is something that has hung over News Night 2.0, and The Newsroom in general, since the beginning of the show. …
The Newsroom, Season 1, Episode 7: “5/1″ Written by Aaron Sorkin Directed by Joshua Marston Airs Sundays at 10:00 PM ET on HBO News, perhaps more than anything else, cannot exist in a vacuum. The importance of news is largely determined by how people react to it; occasionally, some news pieces unexpectedly become important based …
The Newsroom, Season 1, Episode 5: “Amen″ Written by Aaron Sorkin Directed by Daniel Minahan Airs Sundays at 10:00 PM ET on HBO Journalism can be a dangerous profession. Trying to cover the news in, or tell the story of, volatile or war-torn regions, especially, can be downright fatal, the most obvious example in recent …
The Newsroom, Season 1, Episode 6: “Bullies″ Written by Aaron Sorkin Directed by Jeremy Podeswa Airs Sundays at 10:00 PM ET on HBO One often overlooked peril with a no-holds-barred approach to journalism is that it takes no prisoners, and often leaves those with the unfortunate task of answering the questions between the unyielding forces …
It’s been such a deathly slow year at the movies so far that attempting to list ten great TV series is far easier than naming ten great films. With the premieres of TV’s two best shows, Breaking Bad (July 15, AMC) and Louie (tonight, FX), imminent, it seemed as good a time as any to …
Game of Thrones, Season 2, Episode 10: “Valar Morghulis” Written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss Directed by Alan Taylor Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on HBO Even more than the heavily hyped (and very expensive) “Blackwater,” “Valar Morghulis” shows off what Game off Thrones can pull off that other shows can only dream of …
The critically acclaimed HBO series, Game of Thrones, has been lauded for a great many things, and rightfully so. But amongst the few criticisms that this Golden Globe winning television series has attracted is one of irrefutable cogency – the show features an exorbitantly inordinate amount of female nudity. In her polemic against such indiscretions, Mary McNamara, TV …
Game of Thrones, Season 2, Episode 9: “Blackwater” Written by George R. R. Martin Directed by Neil Marshall Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on HBO The Battle of the Blackwater. From book proponents to HBO itself, there’s been a steady stream of hype coming in about the event, and it’s “Blackwater”‘s job to work as …
Game of Thrones, Season 2, Episode 8: “The Prince of Winterfell” Written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss Directed by Alan Taylor Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on HBO As is standard in installment-based narrative drama, sometimes you need an hour just to put the pieces in place. “The Prince of Winterfell” fits the bill …
Game of Thrones, Season 2, Episode 7: “A Man Without Honor” Written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss Directed by David Nutter Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on HBO Not having read George R. R. Martin’s book series while writing weekly content about the show can be a strange experience. While I feel I’m …
Game of Thrones, Season 2, Episode 6: “The Old Gods and the New” Written by Vanessa Taylor Directed by David Nutter Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on HBO As in last week’s “The Ghost of Harrenhal,” Game of Thrones once again explores just about every corner of its world over the course of a single …
Game of Thrones, Season 2, Episode 5: “The Ghost of Harrenhal” Written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss Directed by David Petrarca Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on HBO Well, that’s one would-be ruler down. Renly Baratheon dies an ignoble death at the hands of Melisandre’s foul hellspawn very near the beginning of “The Ghost …
Game of Thrones, Season 2, Episode 4: “Garden of Bones” Written by Vanessa Taylor Directed by David Petrarca Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on HBO The first scene we get in “Garden of Bones” features a couple of Lannister footsoldiers chuckling at their own low wit, mocking Renly Baratheon’s homosexuality – that is, until Robb’s …
Game of Thrones, Season 2, Episode 3: “What Is Dead May Never Die” Written by Bryan Cogman Directed by Alik Sakharov Airs sundays at 9pm ET on HBO Apologies for the slightly belated review; I am currently en route to NYC. Is it possible that anyone will watch “What Is Dead May Never Die” and …
Game of Thrones, Season 2, Episode 2: “The Night Lands” Written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss Directed by Alan Taylor Airs Sundays at 9pm on HBO Please do not include future spoilers from the book series in the comments. Do you recall the opening episodes of the first season of Game of Thrones? Remember …
Game of Thrones, Season 2, Episode 1: “The North Remembers” Written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss Directed by Alan Taylor Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on HBO Same deal as last season: I’ve not read George R. R. Martin’s novels, so please refrain from posting spoilers from the series’ future in the comments. Infanticide, …
Luck, Season 1 , Episode 9 Written by Eric Roth Directed by Mimi Leder Airs Sundays at 10pm ET on HBO “Today’s the day they take it all away from us.” If you were looking for doomy portent to tie in with the fact that this is now in all likelihood the last episode of …
Luck, Season 1, Episode 8 Written by John R. Perrotta and Jay Hovdey Directed by Allen Coulter Airs Sundays at 10pm ET on HBO This week, Mike had Nathan Israel cut up into little pieces, wrapped in plastic, and thrown overboard, never to be seen again. A similar fate befell Luck itself in the same …
Luck, Season 1, Episode 7 Written by Amanda Ferguson Directed by Brian Kirk Airs Sundays at 10pm ET on HBO “Syntax!” In David Milch-land, words and language are king. They have power, but that power can be tragically misapplied. That’s a lesson poor Nathan Israel learns too late in “Episode Seven”‘s most memorable sequence, in …