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Games of Thrones: Embiggening Men in “Blackwater”
The latest Mad Men (“The Other Woman”) presented me with more to think about than I can currently wrap my head around, but so too did the latest Games of Thrones (“Blackwater”), albeit it for very...
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Mad Men: Who owns “The Other Woman”?
Most of what I read about the latest Mad Men (“The Other Woman”) focused on Joan’s decision to accept Pete’s indecent proposal—and rightly so—but the title of the episode basically demands the audience...
View ArticleThe Simpsons Shopping District
Turning downtown Springfield, Oregon into a Simpsons-themed shopping district actually makes a tiny bit of sense, as cheesy as it would be, considering that downtown Springfield reminds one of a city...
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Game of Thrones: “Winter Is Coming” for Catelyn and Jon Snow
(This is another one of those visual rhetoric posts that’s born of this upcoming course … which now has its own website that’s only a demo at the moment so don’t judge.) To recap: in the first post, I...
View ArticleDunham
Ta-Nehisi Coates is correct. The attacks on Lena Dunham as the ultimate purveyor of white privilege in the arts are utterly bizarre. This isn’t to say Dunham doesn’t benefit from white privilege or...
View ArticleStorytelling
Why has television surpassed film as the most important form of motion picture media? Maybe because shows like Mad Men tell interesting stories while the 14th sequel to a superhero movie might sell...
View ArticleProp Joe, RIP
Robert Chew, who played Prop Joe in The Wire, has passed. One of the greatest roles in one of the greatest television shows in history.
View ArticleTigh
I heartily recommend the first two parts of this four part Ronald Moore interview. Representative bit: ES: I want to return to Colonel Tigh for a minute. When I initially watched—at least the first...
View ArticleThe Office of the Future
Walter Cronkite previews the office of 2001, in 1967. Marissa Mayer would obviously disapprove. Working from home! Of course, Cronkite couldn’t imagine a woman in this office. Via
View ArticleMad Men, Season 6
Potential spoiler alerts ahead. Let me more or less agree with Coates’ view on season 6 of Mad Men, or at least the first few episodes, which can be summed up by the fact that Draper’s latest affair is...
View ArticleThe Worldwide Leader in Unnecessary Profit Taking
ESPN is a great corporation. It is ungodly profitable. It creates a mere 43% of Disney’s total operating income. Think about that. All of Disney, including Disneyland and everything else it owns. 43%....
View ArticleRecent Game of Thrones posts on “Second Sons”&“The Rains of Castamere”
A few newer readers were having difficulty finding the Game of Thrones specific information posted of late, and since our “tag” categories work as well as tagging “categories” does, I just thought I’d...
View ArticleBeer TV
Hmmm….. Things are looking up for Delaware’s Dogfish Head. Not only were recently voted America’s best craft brewery over at the Daily Meal, there are also murmurs that a sitcom is in the works based...
View ArticleI Am Somebody
Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street, 1971. I especially like the line affirming those on welfare. Which I wish was still a relatively robust program, hey thanks Bill Clinton for making political points on...
View ArticleWild Kingdom
If you are like me, you watched a lot of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom as a child. Why I thought of this tonight for the first time in years, who knows.
View ArticleJohnny Cash as John Brown
For the 1985 miniseries North and South, the producers hired the greatest actor of his generation to play John Brown. His name? Mr. John R. Cash. Via
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Memorial Day
Another Decoration Day, another day to remember the Union crushing southerners committing treason to defend slavery. Two best tweets of this Memorial Day: The creation of Arlington National Cemetery is...
View ArticleOrganizing Reality TV Writers
Life for a reality TV writer is pretty tough since they have been classified as independent contractors or overtime-exempt and thus can be exploited heavily. The Writers’ Guild is trying to step into...
View ArticleJim Garner, RIP
When I was growing up, my Dad watched A LOT of Rockford Files, which means I watched a lot of Rockford Files since the TV was always on. James Garner died yesterday and it reminds me of what a pleasant...
View ArticleThe Wire: It’s No 24!
Dylan Matthews dug up Neil Genzlinger’s New York Times’ original review of The Wire. To say the least, it hasn’t aged well. It’s all served up in dialogue heavy with police-speak and dealer-speak,...
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