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Anne Lamott 17 hrs · Brian Williams is our new Old Testament goat. It’s like being the new It Girl, although of course, not quite as festive. And I’m caught up in it, too. It’s hard to turn away, and a part of me, the dark part of me with bad self esteem, is cheered….
The original Star Trek was a revolutionary television show… that came to an ignominous end. The classic space opera saw a huge drop in quality in its final season, and then was cancelled. Legend has it the ratings were terrible, and the new producer, Fred Freiberger, ruined it. But the truth is a bit more…
The Strongest Man on Game of Thrones Is Now the Strongest Viking in 1,000 Years This is not a joke. This is The Mountain That Lifts. UPDATE: Now with video! By Eric Vilas-Boas on February 3, 2015 NOTE THAT IF THERE IS A AUTHORSHIP PAGE THE NAME INSIDE THE SPAN.AUTHOR WILL BE WRAPPED IN AN…
The anger directed at HBO’s The Newsroom in December in the wake of an episode that attempted to capitalize on the debate surrounding the scourge of college sexual assault crystallized the complexity of emotions surrounding the very complicated issue plaguing campuses nationwide. At the time, the Rolling Stone/UVA debacle was dominating headlines — a magazine…
Fans of Arrow may not have tuned in just to see Brandon Routh suit up as Ray Palmer a.k.a. ‘The Atom’, but the show has been slowly building to the Justice League member’s reveal nonetheless. The show’s brilliant billionaire may still be constructing his suit of armor, but today DC Comics has released the very first official…
Because Gotham really has no idea what to do as a show other than keep adding “early” versions of Batman’s rogues gallery, they’ve cast Colm Feore as the villainous Dollmaker. But it’s the Dollmaker’s “real” name — not from the comics, but one the show has thought up itself — that will drive you as…
Why We Give Our Favourite TV Shows A Free Pass Even When We Probably Shouldn’t By Sinead Stubbins 16/1/15 end article header Like learning that your significant other secretly watches The Big Bang Theory while you secretly listen to Taylor Swift*, confronting the flaws in your favourite things is a tough business. That’s probably why…
1 No one on TV ever does paperwork. As everyone knows, for every second a real policeman spends on the beat, he or she wastes about a day and a half filling in endless, pointless, politically correct forms. Likewise, TV teachers are never seen marking homework or filling in the 38 risk assessment documents required…
The Batman prequel show returns with an episode set inside the notorious mental institution, but fails to tap into its Lovecraftian origins. Fox After a long holiday break, I’d hoped Gotham would return to our screens with renewed confidence, ready to embrace its strongest, most lurid elements and dispose of the more pedestrian crime drama…
The show is out of Arkham Asylum and back to its inert mob war, still desperately in need of a change in pace. Fox After a two-week jaunt in Arkham Asylum, Gotham is right back to where it started: Jim Gordon is a Gotham PD detective, Carmine Falcone is engaged in an internal mob war…