You Should Netflix This Now: “In A World…”
One of the lessons I took away from watching In A World…, the directorial debut of the supremely talented Lake Bell, is that stakes can be anything, as long as they matter. Hell, there was…
True Creative Writing Is Out There If You Look Hard Enough
The internet’s been a phenomenal tool for a lot of things, some good, some bad. One of the things it’s been good for is distribution of original writing. 30 years ago, if you’d written something,…
Diablo III, The Ultimate Pavlovian Mechanism
I was a little hesitant to pick up Diablo III for my console – I’d played the first two games on a PC, and I had trouble seeing how some of the finer points of…
The 2014 Fall TV Season: What I’m Looking For
It’s that time of year again – your favorite TV shows are back, or about to come back. Yes, the huge, big deal shows – Mad Men, Game of Thrones – are approximately 46 months…
5 Amazing Episodes Of Television From Terrible Shows
Sometimes I get sucked into bad TV shows. I’m willing to overlook some pretty terrible flaws if a show has the right things going for it. I mean, David Duchovny alone was enough to get…
The Newsroom: Aaron Sorkin’s Chance To Leave It All On The Field
It seems like Aaron Sorkin can’t get a break. Sports Night got the axe into just its second season, when the characters were really starting to gel, The West Wing was a massive success but…
“You’re The Worst” Just Wrapped Season 1; Binge This
To binge watch, or not to binge watch. Our Fearless Leader Paul Tassi has vacillated between the pro and con sides of this debate, but like most things, I think the correct view depends a…
The Naming of Things
That’s a pretty clever name, right? Squid Vicious. I thought of it entirely independently. I got really excited, because it hit me in just the perfect way – clever, catchy, irreverent. I was going to…
Visual Epic-ness In Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television
When you think of science fiction and fantasy as a whole, one thing that binds them together is an expectation of a grand scale or scope. You’re much more likely to find an epic clash…