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September 2015

September 06, 2015

The Churchmen — Season 1, Episode 7 Recap

The series does tend to lean a little heavily on the contrast between individual faith...

August 2015

August 23, 2015

The Churchmen — Season 1, Episode 5 Recap

What makes a melodrama different from a soap opera?

August 02, 2015

The Churchmen — Season 1, Episode 1 Recap

Few American television shows focus on religion -- but this French series about five seminary...

June 2015

June 04, 2015

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: From Paris With Love (Fair, 2015)

From Paris With Love is not going to make Signed, Sealed, Delivered the next breakout...

March 2015

March 05, 2015

Gotham Episode 1.18 Recap: Everyone Has a Cobblepot

How can Gotham make us really care about its characters?

February 2015

February 24, 2015

Gotham Episode 1.17 Recap: The Red Hood

I am not sure how I feel with what seems to be an odd rush...

February 12, 2015

Gotham Episode 1.15 Recap: The Scarecrow

Overall this was a good, but not great episode. I am very nervous about next...

February 03, 2015

Gotham Episode 1.14 Recap: The Fearsome Dr. Crane

Boo! Fear was center-stage in this week's episode of Gotham.

January 2015

January 20, 2015

Which 2015 Amazon Pilot Should You Watch?

From start to finish, this was the best, well-crafted episode of the pilots and has...

January 07, 2015

Gotham Episode 1.11 Recap: Rogues’ Gallery

Mid-Season hiatuses can always be a tricky thing. Sometimes they leave viewers anticipating a show's...

November 2014

November 26, 2014

Gotham Episode 1.10 Recap: Lovecraft

Gotham's 10th episode, "Lovecraft" marked it's halfway point of the inaugural season and demonstrates how...

November 18, 2014

Gotham Episode 1.9 Recap: Harvey Dent

The last two episodes have been my favorites, and in general I have warmed slightly...

November 15, 2014

Strange Rumblings in Shangri La (Guglielmino, 2014)

The film, shot on 16mm, has a coloring that surpasses anything I have had the...

November 11, 2014

Gotham Episode 1.8 Recap: The Mask

Barbara...Barbara...Barbara. I'm not sure any other character has come off worse throughout this show's first...

November 04, 2014

Gotham Episode 1.7 Recap: Penguin’s Umbrella

The body count is rising pretty quickly in Gotham--violence is the lazy writer's shorthand--and it...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

Gotham Episode 1.6 Recap: Spirit of the Goat

The ending, and the subsequent preview helped me feel that Gotham is capable of being...

October 20, 2014

Gotham Episode 1.5 Recap: Viper

Does the show need fixing? Or is it good enough? Was Venom a step forward,...

October 14, 2014

Gotham Episode 1.4 Recap: Arkham

As much as Gotham City is changing and the power players are making their plays,...

October 07, 2014

Gotham Episode 1.3 Recap: The Balloonman

I get that in the first couple of episodes of a series a fair amount...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Gotham Episode 1.2 Recap: Selina Kyle

Jim Gordon doesn't have to be a complete failure or success in the course of...

September 29, 2014

Masters of Sex Episode 2.12 Recap: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Like Bill and Virginia, I'm not sure the show itself has ever articulated a convincing...

September 23, 2014

Gotham Episode 1.1 Recap: Pilot

If the central task of a television series' pilot is to convince the viewer to...

September 22, 2014

Masters of Sex Episode 2.11 Recap: One for the Money, Two for the Show

That we appear to be heading to a more conventional cliffhanger at season's end, is...

September 02, 2014

Masters of Sex Episode 2.8 Recap: Mirror, Mirror

In a week where the dominant news story has been about leaked nude photos of...

August 2014

August 11, 2014

Masters of Sex Episode 2.5 Recap: Giants

In Maier's work, that argument increasingly comes across as the way Masters sold the study...

August 04, 2014

Masters of Sex Episode 2.4 Recap: Dirty Jobs

It is perhaps too early to write off the sophomore year as a disappointment, but...

July 2014

July 28, 2014

Masters of Sex Episode 2.3 Recap: Fight

The don't-call-it-an-affair between Virginia Johnson and Bill Masters has been the one element of Masters...

November 2013

November 30, 2013

The Bible

"This program is an adaptation of Bible Stories that changed our world" suggests a rebuttal...

November 17, 2013

Church Hoppers

It's hard to combine reality television with church.