SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, broil a chunk of raw meat and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“They say he can’t be killed.” “And do you believe them?” “No, my Lord. Anyone can be killed.”
Arya Stark is a …
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30 Rock Watch: Live-TV Love Letter
Looking back at my review of the first live 30 Rock in October 2010, I thought it was a fun experiment but not a great episode of the show. The jarring thing about the transition was not the live performance per se but the live …
TV Tonight: The Costco Craze
Like most shoppers, I believe I am smarter than most shoppers. I shop at Costco, for instance—so I tell myself—because I’m savvy about the quality of the products I buy, about knowing what I want and finding it without assistance and about the savings of buying in volume.
But in truth, I also shop at Costco because, oh holy God, …
Girls Watch: The Group
After the comedy’s pilot, “Vagina Panic” was a funnier, more structured episode, about sex and the idea that none of us is as special as we’d like to think we are.
Game of Thrones Watch: Smoke Monster
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, see if your friends with HBO will let you inside their walled gate, and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“The high road’s very pretty, but I doubt you can march your army on …
TV Weekend: Veep
Selina Meyer was a big deal, once. She was an influential senator. She was on the covers of national magazines, including the one whose website you’re reading right now. She ran for President, won the New Hampshire primary and …
The Morning After: In Dreamatoriums Begin Responsibilities
I loved last night’s Community, but I’m really posting here not to review it but to poll Tuned Inland as to what you thought of it. Community’s very-high-concept episodes (e.g., the various pop-culture parodies) tend to polarize …
The Morning After: Life’s a B—-
Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 is bad. I don’t mean that as a statement of quality, but as a statement of character, or at least of attitude. And as a compliment. The new ABC sitcom, about June (Dreama Walker), a naif new …
Game of Thrones Watch: A Trick, A Shadow on a Wall
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, watch last night’s Game of Thrones, but keep it to yourself. The Queen must never know!
Last week’s episode of Game of Thrones ended with a straight-up cliffhanger, in which Jon Snow …
Game of Thrones Watch: There’s a New Hand in Town
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, pay the iron price for HBO–or maybe just go visit a friend who has a subscription–and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“I’m not Ned Stark. I understand the way this game is …
Dead Tree Alert: Brave New Girls
In this week’s print issue of TIME (subscription required, sorry), I have a long-ish piece on HBO’s Girls (premiering April 15) and its young creator-star Lena Dunham. You will hear–and are probably already hearing–an awful lot …
TV Tonight: Scandal
Scandal, the new ABC drama from mega-producer Shonda Rhimes, is set in the world of politics, which is not to say that it is a political drama. It’s about politicians, and the associates and secret lovers around them. There are …
House Watch: Who’s the Rat?
House struggles to find out which member of his team is plotting against him