The journey of The Walking Dead is, inextricably, the journey of sheriff Rick Grimes. In past seasons, Rick’s character oscillations have been fairly clear from green Rick of Season 1 and 2 to the Ricktatorship of Season 3 to Farmer Rick in Season 4. That was when current showrunner Scott Gimple…
Jon Stewart acolyte Stephen Colbert began September by claiming the mantle of CBS’s The Late Show from David Letterman and now, it ends with the man himself replaced by another acolyte – 31 year-old South African stand-up Trevor Noah. As a relative unknown to American audiences (and to show itself…
Stephen Colbert is my spirit animal. He is a satirist without parallel. Like his mentor and forebear Jon Stewart, he presided over a double-whammy of political comedy for almost a decade at Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report. Both hosts finally ran out of gas in proximity to each other, with…
Welcome back, True Detectives. Just like that, True Detective’s beleaguered second season closes, not with a whimper but with a bang. Several bangs actually and all so deafening as to drown out each other. See, when you have two climatic moments in an episode with a third left to go,…
Welcome back, True Detectives. This was by far the best episode of the season. Dominoes started to fall and actions that actually affect the status quo were taken. But it’s taken far too long and the dominoes were obvious from the start. For seasons as short as True Detective‘s are,…
Welcome back, True Detectives. This show finds balance and subtlety banes rather than boons. Instead of getting to know our characters in any meaningful way, the show cuts between them in really off-putting edits, robbing itself of any momentum. Each episode reinforces how integral Cary Fukunaga was to the first…
FOX’s Wayward Pines A 10-episode “event series” that aired from May 14 to July 23 detailing Secret Service Agent Ethan Burke’s time stranded in the seemingly-idyllic but secretly-insidious town of Wayward Pines, Idaho. Exec produced by M. Night Shyamalan, who also directed the pilot. Head writer and showrunner is Chad…
Welcome back True Detectives. “Pain is inexhaustible. It’s only people who get exhausted.” It’s another of Ray’s little recorder messages that he supposedly makes for his son. It’s a good summary of how myself and other viewers are feeling about his season. Misery as an art form is only effective…
Welcome back, True Detectives. This episode didn’t click for me until the end. Pizzolatto’s flourishes may come under fire for his flowery dialogue and such, but hell if he doesn’t know how to end an episode. It’s the beginning and middle he’s got to to work on. With every episode,…
Welcome back, True Detectives. A quick recap of last week: the season’s investigation kicked off in earnest as our three main detectives – the corrupt Ray Velcoro, the rebellious Ani Bezzerides, and the unstable Paul Woodrugh -were joined together in a taskforce to find the killer of kinky, duplicitous Vinci…