Morning Ed: Arts & Entertainment {2017.09.25.M}
The Christmas status of Die Hard, Rachel and Joey, the alleged villain of Titanic, and other age-old entertainment debates.
Tagged: tv
The Cable And The Stream
In which I am the last person on Earth to discover that cable television is doomed.
In Praise of the Treehouse of Horror
Where I reflect on the importance of The Simpsons and their Halloween specials.
Black Mirror 103, “The Entire History Of You”
Want a chance to re-do your past? Get a grain, relive all your life, share it with your friends. All you’ll lose is the ability to forget and move on. By zic.
Black Mirror 102, “15 Million Merits”
Vikram’s title for this episode would have been “The Hedonic Exercise Bike”.
Black Mirror 101, “The National Anthem”
Black Mirror’s first episode, National Anthem, isn’t really the Twilight Zone-esque sci-fi show it claims to be. But it might be the best political/social satire ever produced for television. Spoilers herein, as well as disturbing sexual content. By Tod Kelly.
Game of Thrones: Nasty, Brutish, and Short
I can tell you what Game of Thrones is good at but not why we seem to like it so much.
What Is Game Of Thrones For?
Warning: This post contains spoilers through the second book of A Song of Ice and Fire and the second season of Game of Thrones. Also, if you choose to follow the links, you are...
Classic TV is Bad TV
TV isn’t better, just different. And someone in the future less swayed by the fads of today will see today’s TV as just different, but not better.
“What’chu talking ’bout, Willis?”
When I was growing up there was a period when the above phrase was uttered by everyone, all the time. I’ve seen similar things happen to, among others, “Show me the money!,” “Time to...
The People Problem
I am about 8 years old. My parents are out for the evening, and I am home with my younger sister, and Beverly, a baby-sitter we both like. Beverly introduced my sister and me...
The Politics of ‘Homeland’ are Incredibly Squicky
(Spoilers for the first three episodes of ‘Homeland’ follow. Be warned.) I’ve been working on catching up with the Showtime series “Homeland” for the last couple days on the recommendation of basically everyone on...
Podcast: The Golden Age of Television
I sat down with Freddie and Sonny Bunch, film critic for the Washington Times and a blogger at Conventional Folly, to talk about the A.V. Club’s much-discussed list of the decade’s best television shows....
I don’t own a tv…
…but I do own a computer, and these days you can do almost anything on a computer, including watch TV. There are many, many fewer ads and you don’t fall prey as easily to...
