Game of Thrones Season One watch-a-thon: “Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things”
I am enjoying the CSI: King’s Landing stuff as Ned investigates Jon Arryn’s death. Law and Order: Winterfell is taking a strange turn, however…
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Game of Thrones Season One watch-a-thon: “Lord Snow”
Hoorah! Arya is learning swordfighting! And from Inigo Montoya, no less. Good stuff.
Game of Thrones Season One watch-a-thon: “The Kingsroad”
Coma Bran’s got a psychic connection with the dire-wolf pups? Also: Daenerys wants to know more about dragons and sex. Who doesn’t!
Game of Thrones Season One watch-a-thon: “Winter Is Coming”
If I wondered why HBO had any interest in staging a ten-episode Renaissance Festival, now I know: Game of Thrones is The Sopranos with beheadings. And lots and lots of boobies.
Doctor Who thing of the day: this is how juicy a drama about the creation of the show could be
A peek at just how much drama was going on at the BBC in 1963…
Doctor Who thing of the day: Ben Browder to guest-star in Series 7
That is all. Please try to remain calm and go about your business as normal.
question of the day: Why do Hollywood execs suddenly love Lindsay Lohan again?
It’s cases like this that make me question the conventional wisdom that Hollywood only gives audiences what they want. It appears that the public does not want to see Lindsay Lohan onscreen. Something else must be going on.
question of the day: Is AMC exploiting 9/11 with its Mad Men imagery?
Does your take on whether or not Mad Men is a thematic riff on our cultural reaction to 9/11 impact whether you see the use of such imagery as reasonable?
Doctor Who thing of the day: what the heck is going on in Cardiff?
Something is going on in Cardiff concerning Doctor Who that the council doesn’t want anyone to know about…
question of the day: Should 911/999 emergency calls be broadcast on television?
Do they add an important perspective on a story that could not be obtained in another way? Do they have true journalistic value? Or at they nothing more than lurid sensationalism?
