Tag Archives: Miniseries
Series Premiere: The Pacific – “Part One”
“Part One” March 14th, 2010 As an “amateur” television critic, I don’t receive screeners in advance, which means that I was not amongst those who received the entirety of HBO’s The Pacific, the followup to the channel’s Band of Brothers, … Continue reading
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Review: AMC’s The Prisoner – I Know There’s An Answer (But Ask Better Questions)
Review: AMC’s The Prisoner November 18th, 2009 “There’s something thrilling about honesty.” There’s a moment in the final hour of AMC’s remake of The Prisoner where I started to realize where its real problem lies. This is not to say … 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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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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Torchwood: Children of Earth – “Day One”
“Day One” July 20th, 2009 The trope of creepy children is not exactly new . Not only have there been numerous horror films that have utilized the form, but there have also been numerous parodies – I may have never … Continue reading
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A Television Event: Torchwood: Children of Earth Preview
Preview: A Television Event July 20th, 2009 As a television-producing nation, Britain was very much at the forefront of the short-run series. While American networks tend to focus on syndication, with cable series being the one notable exception, British series … Continue reading
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The 2008 Television Time Capsule: Generation Kill (Miniseries)
Complete Miniseries (HBO) Airdate: Summer 2008 Debuting in the summer, David Simon and Ed Burns’ HBO miniseries was one of those shows that went largely without hype, a fact which shouldn’t surprise anyone after the previous year had seen a … Continue reading
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Series Finale: Generation Kill – “Bomb in the Garden”
“Bomb in the Garden” Series Finale Saying goodbye to Generation Kill isn’t just difficult, it’s impossible. I recently finished The Wire’s fifth season (partially why I was so late getting to this finale), and the show’s conclusion (like the conclusion … Continue reading
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Generation Kill – “Stay Frosty”
“Stay Frosty” August 17th, 2008 We’ve hit the penultimate segment of HBO’s miniseries, but when “Stay Frosty” begins there is a definite sense that it might as well already be over: our central company is no longer part of the … Continue reading
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