Monthly Archives: May 2011
A Cultural Comeback: The Return of the Cultural Catchup Project
The Return of the Cultural Catchup Project May 16th, 2011 On April 9th, 2010, I began an undertaking. Fifty-seven reviews and over six months later, I had to put that undertaking on hold indefinitely. There was some part of me … Continue reading
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Game of Thrones – “The Wolf and the Lion”
“The Wolf and the Lion” May 15th, 2011 “How long can hate hold a thing together?” One could argue that Game of Thrones tells the story of two houses – this would be categorically untrue, especially given the ways in … Continue reading
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Doctor Who – “The Doctor’s Wife”
“The Doctor’s Wife” May 14th, 2011 It isn’t exactly news that Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who is expressly interested in the poetic: between The Girl Who Waited, The Boy Who Waited, and the tragic love story of the Doctor and River … Continue reading
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Glee – “Prom Queen”
“Prom Queen” May 10th, 2011 Ian Brennan has always been the Glee writer most interested in embracing the series’ meta qualities, but there are two moments in this week’s episode where he goes one step too far. First, Sue’s list … Continue reading
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Game of Thrones – “Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things”
“Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things” May 8th, 2011 The timing of the next few episodes of Game of Thrones couldn’t be worse on a personal level – it’s a busy time of year for me, what with the end of … Continue reading
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Season Finale: Fringe – “The Day We Died”
“The Day We Died” May 6th, 2011 While I intended on writing something following the Fringe finale all week, I expected it to be a piece about how my general distance from the series made the finale less satisfying than … Continue reading
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Re-Serializing Sports Entertainment: Jeff Katz’s Wrestling Revolution
Professional wrestling is a storyteller’s medium. Case in point: I spent my middle school years running a fictional wrestling federation on the internet, writing out extensive recaps of fictionalized wrestling events complete with matches, promos, and everything else in between. … Continue reading
Community – “A Fistful of Paintballs”
“A Fistful of Paintballs” May 5th, 2011 “That was a game. This is paintball.” “A Fistful of Paintballs” is unquestionably a sequel to “Modern Warfare,” but I’d argue that it’s a fundamentally different episode on some level. It follows the … Continue reading
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Season Finale: Justified – “Bloody Harlan”
“Bloody Harlan” May 4th, 2011 In what has been a truly spectacular second season, Justified has more or less followed the same pattern as the first season: serialized elements are introduced gradually over the first half of the season before … Continue reading
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Glee – “Rumours”
“Rumours” May 3rd, 2011 “Tell me why everything turned around?” “Rumours” never pretends that it isn’t an episode built around the songs from the Fleetwood Mac album of the same name: heck, early on Will pulls out the LP with … Continue reading
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