SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, put down that Tom Swift book and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
Boardwalk Empire is a work of historical fiction, but the past has its own past. And “Home,” the season’s seventh …
Boardwalk Empire Watch: Movin’ On Up
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, take out your belt, lash yourself strongly across the back and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
With “Family Limitation,” you’ve now seen as many episodes as I did of Boardwalk …
Boardwalk Empire Watch: The Swearin’ of the Green
Brief spoilers for Sunday’s Boardwalk Empire up next:
Between AMC’s Sunday finales and a large-ish print-magazine piece that I’ve been on deadline for, I didn’t get around to reviewing the very strong Boardwalk Empire …
The Morning After: Event Horizon
If you were wondering if The Event would be around long enough for you to commit to, good news—NBC picked the sci-fi serial up yesterday for a full season, along with Outsourced and Law & Order: Los Angeles. The Event has slumped seriously in the ratings since it debuted, but maybe NBC has decided it has room to grow—and, maybe …
Mad Men Watch: Put a Ring on It
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get out of the pool, turn on the TV in your hotel room and watch last night’s season finale of Mad Men.
We should not be surprised, in retrospect, to find Don Draper’s work and home …
Mad Men Watch: Behavioral Modification
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, sneak off into the woods with a friend and watch last night’s Mad Men.
Sincerity, as the joke goes, is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
Last night’s Mad Men, …
Boardwalk Empire Watch: The Master’s Tools
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, curl up next to a nice bookcase and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
Fans of The Wire had to be waiting for Boardwalk Empire, with its sprawling storylines, to finally spotlight …
Mad Men Watch: It’s the End of the World As We Know It
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, fake-call a close friend and pretend to watch last night’s Mad Men together.
God help us, but Stan Rizzo actually had it right this episode: “It’s the end of the world,” he told …
Boardwalk Empire Watch: Gut Feeling
Spoilers for last night’s Boardwalk Empire coming up:
The first two episodes of Boardwalk Empire, having introduced and expanded the worlds of Nucky Thompson and the New York and Chicago mobs, impressed upon us how dangerous …
Mad Men Watch: Yesterday, All My Troubles Seemed So Far Away
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, pop in your earplugs, put on an old Beatles movie—maybe you should invite your dad and your girlfriend!—then catch last night’s episode of Mad Men.
It is not a revelation to say …
Boardwalk Empire Watch: Everybody Needs a Hand
Spoilers for last night’s episode of Boardwalk Empire coming up:
The impressive thing, and in a way the problem, of the pilot of Boardwalk Empire was that it was so movie-like. (An inevitable impression since it had Martin …
Mad Men Watch: Women’s Movements
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, hop a train to the city and watch last night’s Mad Men with your father’s “friend.”
No one knows where the next revolution is coming from. I suppose that’s why they’re revolutions. So …
Boardwalk Empire Watch: Land of Opportunity
I plan/hope to do a full-fledged Boardwalk Empire Watch, but with a looming deadline and Mad Men and Rubicon on the same night, with network premiere week looming—and having just published my review based on the first six …