SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, look deep, deep, deep into the flames and watch last night’s Season 2 finale of Game of Thrones.
Some say the world will end in fire/ Some say in ice./ From what I’ve tasted of desire/ …
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Game of Thrones Watch: Smoke on the Water, Fire in the Sky
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, gather your closest friends for some wine and nightshade, raise the drawbridge and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“Some of those boys will never come back.” “Joffrey will. The …
Glee Watch: NYADA, NYADA, NYADA
Spoilers for the season finale of Glee below:
One beef I often have with Glee episodes is that they move too fast, go in too many directions, try to cram in too much at once. You might say that about “Goodbye,” the season 3 …
Girls Watch: A Spartan Existence
Game of Thrones Watch: Suffer the Children
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, finish up reciting your Valyrian poetry and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“Being a lord is like being a father, except you have thousands of children, and you worry about all of …
The Morning After: Smash Ends Its Season, With a Bombshell and a Whimper
Quick spoilers for the season finale of Smash below:
…and so Smash concludes its first season as it began, wildly applauding for itself.
Game of Thrones Watch: Prisoners and Free Folk
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, finish getting that full-body tattoo and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“We can’t make steel as well as you, but we’re free. If someone told us we couldn’t lie down as man and …
TV Tonight: Around the World in 80 Plates
I love Top Chef. I love–well, at least I have loved–The Amazing Race. Around the World in 80 Plates is, on the surface, Top Chef meets The Amazing Race. Twelve chefs start off in London, traveling every week from one …
Girls Watch: You Gonna Put Up With That?
Spoilers for Sunday night’s Girls follow:
Yesterday I solicited your thoughts on Veep, after it aired the third of three episodes I saw before reviewing it. Today we look at Girls‘ 4th episode, “Hannah’s Diary,” the first …
Game of Thrones Watch: I Capture the Castle
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, make your way home past your jeering subjects, and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“How can I call myself king if I can’t hold my own castle?” —Robb Stark
The first episode …
TV Weekend: The Return of Sherlock
How is it possible that a show based on a set of stories that began in the 19th century could be the freshest detective show on television? Sherlock, the British rethinking of Sherlock Holmes, managed that in 2010 with crisp …
The Morning After: You Can’t Go Home Again
Quick thoughts on the season finale of The Good Wife below:
One concern I’d had as season 3 of The Good Wife went on was that the show might be attempting to hit the reset button, returning to the circumstances of the series’ …
Girls Watch: Ready for Their Close Up
With “All Adventurous Women Do,” you’ve now seen as many episodes of Girls as I’d seen before I reviewed it. Rather than recap the episode line by line, let me unpack two scenes from it that helped confirm I was sold on this …