“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 I had one of those moments. As Jill and Hank seemed to be at some sort of [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 31, 2009
Royal Pains – “The Honeymoon’s Over”
July 30, 2009
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. events (Last week’s Torchwood: Children of Earth blogging, for example) and some personal academic commitments that have [...]
July 26, 2009
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 future “will inform where we go” with the show”– Joss Whedon on “Epitaph One”
Friday night at Comic-Con [...]
July 24, 2009
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? If so, I can’t really offer an opinion on that subject, as my lack of experience with [...]
July 23, 2009
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 in quite some time. For those who have now seen that episode, I’m curious to know whether [...]
July 22, 2009
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 piece where she imagined her reunion with her recently deceased father in heaven. Last season, Jean-Marc Genereaux [...]
July 22, 2009
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 the same, just in case you were wondering). With a new (Read: old) extraterrestrial threat at Great [...]
July 22, 2009
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 the second episode of Entourage’s sixth season to the premiere, thought last night’s Weeds and Nurse Jackie [...]
July 21, 2009
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 to the fallout from last night’s cliffhanger, this may not have been your traditional episode of Torchwood. [...]
July 21, 2009
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 to give everyone a glimpse at why the amount of blog coverage has been (outside [...]
