Tag Archives: Critics
A Phantom Menace: Weiner’s Mad Men Spoiler War Misses Target
A Phantom Menace: Weiner’s Mad Men Spoiler War Misses Target July 27th, 2010 Last week, I wrote at length about how Matthew Weiner’s concerns regarding spoilers speaks to the awkward place of pre-air reviews, which are forced to avoid spoilers, … Continue reading
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Could “C” stand for Community?: Musings on the Role of the TCA
In the final piece of his fantastic series of articles on his Comic-Con 2010 experience, Todd VanDerWerff asks an all-important question: why, precisely, do news organizations cover Comic-Con from the show floor? He writes that “the vast majority of the … Continue reading
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Mad Men the Morning After: Critics Relate to “Public Relations”
Mad Men the Morning After: Critics Relate to “Public Relations” July 26th, 2010 When I was somewhat incredulous about why anyone even the least bit afraid of spoilers would read pre-air reviews of a show like Mad Men, part of … Continue reading
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Treme the Morning After: Critical Arcs Conclude with “I’ll Fly Away”
Treme the Morning After: Critical Arcs Conclude with “I’ll Fly Away” June 21st, 2010 In Alan Sepinwall’s fantastic interview with David Simon about Treme’s first season, Simon was particularly animated about those who argue that Treme is a show light … Continue reading
Fiske-ian Learnings: Reflections on Fiske Matters
While I don’t often delve too far into my academic experiences here at Cultural Learnings, this past weekend offered an interesting convergence of my various different hats, and since I’m going to be more academically involved in television studies in … Continue reading
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Lost the Morning After: Critics face “The End”
Lost the Morning After: Critics face “The End” May 24th, 2010 Writing about the end of a television show is a lot like writing about the end of a war. When a war comes to a close, people want to … Continue reading
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The Lost Weekend: Reflections on Reviewing Lost
Reflections on Reviewing Lost May 22nd, 2010 There are a lot of articles floating around the internet right now about Lost’s legacy (including a great one from my brother), but I don’t necessarily know if I’m prepared to contribute to … Continue reading
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Lost the Morning After: Critics Ponder “What They Died For”
Critics Ponder “What They Died For” May 19th, 2010 Trapped between perhaps the most divisive episode in the show’s history and a sprawling two and a half hour finale shrouded in mystery, “What They Died For” is a bit tough … Continue reading
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Lost the Morning After: Going “Across the Sea” with Critics
Going “Across the Sea” with Critics May 12th, 2010 Writing about Lost on a weekly basis has been consistently challenging this year not in terms of having anything to talk about but rather in terms of tempering one’s response. We … Continue reading
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