Mad Men starts its seasons with a slow, in-medias-res fade up. There’s usually no instigating incident to kick start the action nor is there some kind of introductory scene to summarize what the year will be about. Instead the first hour is about catching up on where these people have been over the last (in [...]
July 20, 2010
Who Cancelled the Pavement Webcast: A Tangled Up In Wires Investigation
Why didn’t I ask? Why didn’t I ask? Why didn’t I ask?
July 16, 2010
Amy Ryan Returns to Dunder-Mifflin
If next year really is Steve Carrell’s last one on The Office, then at least he’ll be going out with a bang. TV Guide is reporting that Amy Ryan will be coming back to the show for eight episodes next season. For those who do not remember, Ryan (who was also in The Wire and [...]
July 12, 2010
R.I.P. Harvey Pekar
Harvey Pekar, one of the greatest comic book writers ever, was found dead in his home in Cleveland. There is currently no information about his cause of death. Pekar is most famous for American Splendor, an unglamorous, slice-of-life examination of Pekar’s daily experiences in Cleveland. In 1994, Pekar and his wife Joyce collaborated on Our [...]
June 17, 2010
Review: Toy Story 3
I was 8 years old when my parents took me to see Toy Story in a tiny theater in suburban Atlanta and it completely blew my mind. Since then, I’ve pretty much grown up with Pixar. When I was younger, “A Bug’s Life” and “Toy Story 2” fed my love of movies. As a teenager, [...]
June 10, 2010
Veronica Mars – “Meet John Smith” and “The Wrath of Con”
“Meet John Smith” Today’s first Veronica Mars episode is all about parenting and, more specifically, mothers. There’s Celeste Kane, the overbearing 09er matriarch who wants to keep Duncan on the antidepressants that have been stifling his personality. He goes off them and starts to get a little loopy, most notably being driven to jump off [...]
June 7, 2010
Summer TV Club: Twin Peaks – “Pilot”
5 miles south of the Canadian border and 12 miles west of the state line, Twin Peaks is an insular logging community in Washington that seems innocent, almost quaint on the surface. But then the body of a young girl washes up on a riverbank, covered in plastic. Welcome to our Summer TV Club coverage [...]
June 4, 2010
Summer TV Club: Deadwood – “Deadwood”
By way of reminder, both Michael and Jonah will be writing about Season 1 of Deadwood: Friday’s entry in the Summer TV Club. Michael’s Take Wow, does Deadwood start out with a punch! Within the first 10 minutes of the show, there’s a brutal hanging and a slew of f-bombs (Wikipedia says there are 43 [...]
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