Welcome back to the heart of darkness, True Detectives. We’re back in Vinci, California, finally ready to dig deep into this season’s murder case and free of the glare of this acclaimed show’s return. Quick recap: we left off last week with our three cops finally united. Dirty cop Ray Velcoro…
Was Game of Thrones too optimistic for you? Well, don’t worry, lovers of everything dark and depressing, HBO has the answer to squash our re-emerging happiness. True Detective takes over the former show’s time slot on Sundays and brings with it the same fatalistic tone that entranced viewers last year, albeit with an…
Here we are. The end of Game of Thrones. It always flies by so fast. 10 episodes used to be a cakewalk for traditional shows, especially broadcast networks where they can pump out 22-24 episodes of NCIS. Or NCIS: Los Angeles. Or NCIS: New Orleans. Game of Thrones is a distinctive beast…
Hardhome: Jon & Tormund What “Hardhome” saved for last, I’ll put up front: Game of Thrones just snuck in their yearly battle episode under our noses. While the coming Stannis vs. Bolton confrontation has been teased all season (that got some more foreshadowing below) this unlike previous setpieces, comes with…
This season is the season Game of Thrones became it’s own creature. It is no longer appropriate to compare George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series that gives the story basis. It won’t be conclusively until we have both the final season and the final novel within…
This episode played, as more and more Game of Thrones episodes are wont nowadays, as five vignettes, concerning Arya, the King’s Landing ruckus, Tyrion & Jorah, the Dornish happenings, and another good ole fashioned Westerosi wedding, this time at Winterfell. Believe it or not, the show is actually a lighter, more…
Game of Thrones continues its rampage of change in the fourth episode of Season 5 this week. The changes are good because the echoes in other plotlines are more pronounced. It makes for more concise storytelling, in line with the ‘convergence’ theme showrunners David Benioff & D.B. Weiss have repeatedly said…
Ah it wouldn’t be Game of Thrones without weddings and we got one today (between the boy king Tommen and the twice-widowed Margaery) and a promise of another (in a shocking swerve from the source material). The Wall: Jon & Stannis Jon has made Olly his squire. So there’s that.…
With Damages, series creators Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, and Daniel Zelman took the term “legal show” and cranked it up to 11. With Bloodline, they’ve done it again, taking the “family drama” and making the morality about as dark and nonexistent as air in space. When I read a description…