Up until this episode, I have been operating under the assumption that Bryan Fuller and his team are using Thomas Harris’ novels as guides for the overall story. That they are expanding on a small piece of the novel “Red Dragon,” but that characters within the series who also appear in the novels would have […]
I thought I had outsmarted the Parks and Rec crew. The promo promising big news while showing Leslie vomiting in a trash bin couldn’t possibly mean she was pregnant, especially not so soon after Ann gave birth. It was a misdirect, pure and simple. Leslie had the flu, and it was going to be just […]
A suspect that “Basic Story” will work much better in tandem with next week’s season finale, but as a stand alone episode it certainly felt like all exposition and very little plot. In fact, a great deal of the episode’s B storyline was spent following Abed as he attempts to deal with a Greendale without […]
Like many Netflix subscribers, I spent much of February binge watching the second season of House of Cards. And, for the most part, I really enjoyed it. Is it over the top and unrealistic at times? Sure. Does binge watching the series help cover up its flaws? Most likely. But I had fun watching the […]
When it was announced a few weeks ago that HBO’s hit series True Detective would be competing in the Best Drama category rather than the expected Best Miniseries category, television fans braced themselves for the bitter battle between Breaking Bad‘s final season (which was thought to be a nearly sure thing to take home a […]
In perhaps the least surprising announcement in the history of television, HBO has announced that it has renewed its hit drama Game of Thrones for a fifth and sixth season. Thrones, which kicked off its fourth season this past Sunday with record ratings, has been widely hailed as one of television’s best dramas. The series […]
All season long I have been extolling Adam Reed’s masterful skill in breathing new life to Archer, instilling it with a freshness that was missing in its fourth season and rebranding it Archer Vice. Much of that new quality has to do with the change in premise and its effect of the characters; the ISIS […]
