Showtime has taken a bit of a critical beating over the past year, with Dexter‘s final season being heralded as one of the worst television finales ever and Homeland‘s third season garnering very little in the way of positive buzz with critics or awards. The one large bright spot for the network in 2013 came […]
Is American Horror Story going to the carnival? According to series writer Douglas Petrie that is the plan for the upcoming fourth season of the FX drama. During a taping of the Nerdist Writers Panel podcast released earlier this month, but recorded on February 16, Petrie confirmed the carnival theme/setting when asked about the next […]
Selina Mayer for president! The third season of HBO’s Veep premieres on April 6 and “operation Lady POTUS is go” as the brand new trailer previews the many struggles facing Selina in her quest to become the “most powerful person on earth”. Primarily her delightfully colorful and often incompetent staff, with the exception of Sue, […]
It’s clear from watching these last several episodes that Walking Dead showrunner Scott Gimple (who wrote this episode) has fully committed to giving us more character development within the series (in an effort to solve one of the biggest knocks against the series). That being said, there have been serious issues this season in finding […]
Well, that was a disappointing episode. Considering Will’s predicament, we all knew that at some point he would have his day in court. But this episode felt more like a placeholder, setting certain elements in motion, rather than taking forward steps to actually solve anything or push the story. The main action within “Hassun” is […]
The long-awaited showdown between Rabbit and Lucas/Carrie finally materializes in “Bullets and Tears”, but the anticipated confrontation (muddled by ineffective flashbacks and questionable storytelling) falls flat, resulting in a surprisingly dull and anticlimactic conclusion to an otherwise engaging and inspired season of Banshee. Despite some fun moments, seemingly unnecessary flashback scenes and a determined focus […]
Well, if you bring the creator and showrunner of Breaking Bad onto your series, you pretty much have to have some sort of Bad reference, right? Dan Harmon and the Community writers took it one step forward, offering a half hour look into the rise and fall of their own Heisenberg in the episode’s successful […]
