Monthly Archives: July 2009
Royal Pains – “The Honeymoon’s Over”
“The Honeymoon’s Over” July 30th, 2009 There are moments when watching a summer show that you start to realize just how much you’ve been treating it as a summer show, and at the start of tonight’s episode of Royal Pains … Continue reading
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Weeds – “A Distinctive Horn”
“A Distinctive Horn” July 27th, 2009 As you’ve no doubt noticed as of late, things have been a touch slow around Cultural Learnings when it comes to summer programming reviews. This is due largely to a combination of extra-special T.V. … Continue reading
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Review: Dollhouse – “Epitaph One”
“Epitaph One” July 26th, 2009 “We intend to honor what you’ve seen here today, but we will question the veracity of it. A lot of it was memories and whether all those memories are completely true” will be questioned. The … Continue reading
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Torchwood: Children of Earth – “Day Five”
“Day Five” July 24th, 2009 As an experiment, I don’t really know how we’re supposed to qualify Children of Earth as a piece of television. Are we supposed to be judging it as if it were a season of Torchwood? … Continue reading
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Torchwood: Children of Earth – “Day Four”
“Day Four” July 23rd, 2009 Earlier today, I tweeted that one of the scenes in “Day Four” of the five-day miniseries event that is Torchwood: Children of Earth was one of the most legitimately disturbing sequences I’ve seen on television … Continue reading
So You Think You Can Dance: All’s Fair in Love and Dance?
Top 8 Performance Show July 22nd, 2009 In the past four seasons, there have been a number of routines where emotional factors beyond the performance itself have played a role in their success. Two seasons ago, Mia Michaels did a … Continue reading
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Torchwood: Children of Earth – “Day Three”
“Day Three” July 22nd, 2009 At the heart of “Day Three,” part three of five of this week’s Torchwood: Children of Earth miniseries, is the fate of the middleman (sadly, the fate of canceled ABC Family series The Middleman remains … Continue reading
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Warehouse 13 – “Magnetism”
“Magnetism” July 21st, 2009 In choosing to blog about Warehouse 13 of the past few nights’ television lineups, I don’t want you to think I prefer it to any of them: I quite liked the third episode of Hung, preferred … Continue reading
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Torchwood: Children of Earth – “Day Two”
“Day Two” July 21st, 2009 If I were a regular Torchwood viewer, I may have found “Day Two” to be particularly strange. Considering that Captain Jack Harkness, who seems to be the leader of Torchwood, is almost entirely absent due … Continue reading
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Cultural Academics: A Quick (Rough) Glimpse at my Masters’ Thesis
While some regular readers may be entirely disinterested in what follows, I had mentioned an interest in gathering some feedback/response to the introduction to my Masters’ thesis on Twitter and there was some pretty decent response. And so, in order … Continue reading
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