Tag: television

I’m interviewing for a writing job so I feel like I should be watching my mouth here. Luckily, race in America is no longer an issue, amirite? Falcon and the Winter Soldier has entered the rotation of shows that play well in my background. It’s actiony sure, but the...

I skipped over a question set from this module, the responses for Wag the Dog. The movie was only ok, and the writing didn’t really add anything to the experience so I gave it a pass. I’m liking the writing here though. “At least he’s not doing drugs” lol....

Wherein Dave pisses you off a little bit by crapping on your favorite. But seriously, though- these were just bad. Like Star Wars’ Episodes 1, 7, 8, & 9, they’re all carried more by the momentum of what’s going on around them. That’s right, I went there too. Doctor...

This isn’t actually a love story, that was just a better title. But I do have a theory – and I think it’s a good one – that makes most of this shit make sense. To state the obvious up front, Endgame really did some weird shit with time....

I’m just a few eps into Falcon & Winter Soldier, so you know all this already. When this show started, there were a few special writers online who were giving them shit for failing to solve racism in a six-episode run. The introduction of politics was ham-fisted, it wasn’t...

The cool thing about historical dramas is you know how it’s generally gonna go. You can get attached to characters without worrying about some pretentious writer killing them off before their times. Watching Spartacus for example, you know Spartacus dies. You know Caesar doesn’t. In Rome though, you know...

I wrote an essay back at PCC on “rape culture”, years before I wrote about ‘Spartacus’ a few days ago. As I’m re-finishing the last season, I’m reminded of how closely related they are. Rape is a storytelling device throughout the series. Male slaves are used by women or...

Less “gladiator porn” than “porn with gladiators”. I don’t do violence as easily as before Sue’s killing. Walking Dead was expired from the watchlist pretty much immediately. I tried Game of Thrones at one point, but couldn’t make it through the first episode without being sickened. Spartacus is an...

I don’t really watch the news, not least because I don’t have any kind of cable media coming into this place. The news is less important anyways than how it is incorporated. This has been true all along, but the last four years have made it painfully obvious. By...

You thought the Khan thing was fanboy? I wasted some quarantine time revisiting the OG Transformers, the 1980’s originals. I was a big fan at the time, and the characters have obviously lived on, but every update I’ve seen has had something especially dumb going on. When I went...