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True Detective. Everything's ending. Time to wake up.

True Detective. Everything’s ending. Time to wake up.

Ugh, it’s over. Alright, I’m going to come right out and say it: I kind of fucking loved this episode, despite some of the inherent weirdness. Maybe “fucking loved” is a bit strong, but, you know what? I don’t get what all the haters are talking about. I thought it was a very strong episode. It felt more like a movie, with the intensity that the rest of the season should have had. But because it…

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True Detective. Everything is fucking.

Now we’re getting somewhere! Maybe? It feels really ineffective to say, “This is the level the show should have been at all along,” because ultimately that doesn’t mean anything. We couldn’t have gotten here without all the slow-building, more-than-occasionally confusing plot that came before. Mostly, I’m just sad it took until episode 7 to get to this point. Sigh. You guys, I don’t hate this…

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True Detective. "I will always love you." "K."

True Detective. “I will always love you.” “K.”

intensestare.exe Hoo, boy. Well. That was an episode. I mean. I don’t know what to say. I didn’t dislike it. But I thought last week was much stronger. If you follow me on twitter (if you don’t, you should) you might have seen me tweet a link on Friday to this interview with Nic Pizzolatto from last summer. He talks about a lot of different things, and if you have 57 spare minutes, I recommend…

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True Detective. It's like blue balls. In your heart.

True Detective. It’s like blue balls. In your heart.

Secret Task Force! Woo! OMG YOU GUYS THINGS ACTUALLY HAPPENED PLOT ACTUALLY ADVANCED AND THINGS MADE SENSE WHAT KIND OF LOGICAL WORLD ARE WE IN NOW (Warning: this may be a long one. That’s what she said.) It only took five episodes. Five episodes to tell a story in 60 minutes that actually made sense. You would think that I would be ecstatic that they finally made an episode that pulls me…

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True Detective. The numbers tell the story.

So, in between episodes, I found myself thinking about ratings the other day, and decided to take a look at True Detective. Something feels off. It feels like NO ONE is watching this show anymore. No one is talking about it. What I found actually shocked me. Because the issue isn’t that people aren’t watching. It’s that people aren’t talking. And that means death for TV in 2015. (Note: I got all…

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True Detective. Sometimes your worst self is your best self.

Yay! We finally have context for this scene! That’ll do, Pig True Detective. That’ll do. For now. I think I’ll venture and say that last night’s episode was much better than the previous three. More happened not only plot wise (sort of), but character wise. Let’s start with the plot. So, I say that the plot only sort of advanced because some Major Things did happen, and there was some much needed…

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True Detective. Ahh, I pissed myself.

In last night’s episode, Paul has some unwanted feels. Okay, so you remember how in my recap/review of the first episode this season, I said that nothing is a context clue if there is no context? Well, it’s the third episode and there should be some fucking context by now, wouldn’t you think? Maybe I’m spoiled by so much other good television that I’ve seen over the course of my decades on this…

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True Detective. You're a bad person.

True Detective. You’re a bad person.

He’s dead. Of course he’s dead, he was my favorite character. Ray Something (21 Jun 2015-28 Jun 2015) JUST KIDDING. He’s not dead. I don’t believe that he’s dead. Besides the fact that what I originally thought was a headshot, but upon second viewing was not, we have this promo shot: Haven’t seen this yet. Nope. We haven’t seen that scene yet, and I highly doubt they would release something…

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True Detective. Twelve years old, my ass. FUCK. YOU.

Well. There it is. The first episode of True Detective Season Two aired last night. This is what happens when you build up so much anticipation and so much hype. One of the problems (not that it can actually be categorized as such) was that the first season was so damn good right out of the gate. And it stayed good. And yes, a lot of people hated the ending of it—like people hated the ending of…

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Sutter vs. Gilligan: Who's the Heavyweight Champ of TV?

Sutter vs. Gilligan: Who’s the Heavyweight Champ of TV?

We’re having an ice day (it’s like a snow day, but scarier!), so while I’m home from work and nursing a Bloody Mary, I thought I’d talk about something I’ve been thinking about lately.

I was posed the following question recently: “Now that Kurt Sutter and Vince Gilligan have had two major shows on, which is better? Who is the better writer? Whose shows are better?” I realize that’s several…

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The Newsroom. "We are sworn enemies now."

The Newsroom. “We are sworn enemies now.”

The episode was called “Contempt” and I don’t think I was wrong to be worried right from the get-go. Not that this episode was bad, per se. It was just so supremely Sorkin. Which means there’s a lot to cover, and my notes alone for this were like 1200 words, so I did you a favor and broke it into sections, from least to most interesting, according to me.

Breaking News and the Love Quadrangle That…

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The Newsroom. Anything Goes.

The first five minutes of this episode were magical. From getting to hear a little bit of Cole Porter to seeing that Maggie and Sloan being amazingly competent, to the truly glorious number of F-bombs dropped, the episode started off strong.

Sorkin seems to have two ways that he writes his female characters: clumsy and incompetent, in constant need of saving while being the perfect tool for…

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The Newsroom. "Get the fuck out of my boardroom."

The Newsroom. “Get the fuck out of my boardroom.”

It is not exaggerating to say that Don and Sloan are currently THE most important part of this show to me. In fact, I’d be willing to see The Newsroom disappear from the air immediately if we got a sitcom featuring Don and Sloan in its place. My verbatim notes on their scenes were, “I WANT TO WATCH A SITCOM THAT’S JUST SLOAN AND DON FIGURING THEIR SHIT OUT”. Lying to one-up the other and…

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Goodbye Sons of Anarchy. I’ll miss a few of you. In two episodes, Sons of Anarchy will be over. I've never really written a word on the show in its entire run except for a few snarky tweets here and there, but TV shows that make it have been a bit of an obsession of mine over the past year.

The Newsroom. "Bullseye".

The Newsroom. “Bullseye”.

I’ve missed you, I’ve missed you all. I’ve even missed you, The Newsroom. I know that you’re all probably confused as to what happened last season, since the last episode aired well over a year ago. It probably didn’t help your memory that I didn’t recap last season. Wouldn’t that have been nice? But what would’ve been even nicer would have been a big ol’ “PREVIOUSLY ON…” segment. Come on, HBO.

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Summer Binge. The Killing, Season 1: Part 2

Finally finished Season 1 this week. I can definitely see the anger over the “cliffhanger” at the end. Just in case you didn’t know: beware. Spoilers abound.

I. DON’T. KNOW!!!

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Summer Binge. The Killing, Season One: Part 1.

Hello again, boys and girls! It’s your old pal Christina! Hope you’ve all been having a good summer. What have you been watching? I’ve been watching a lot of Top Gear on Netflix. It’s pretty great, you should check it out, but it’s not the kind of show I come here to talk about.

Summer’s pretty great for a number of reasons. Sun. Beaches. Summer storms. World Cup soccer (hooray for…

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