TV: Hijack
On The Wire, Idris Elba made an early mark as Stringer Bell, one of TV history’s …
Non-Fiction: TV Milestones Series
Wayne State University’s TV Milestones series has a delicious concept: it identifies and evaluates groundbreaking …
Rewatching The Wire
It’s been twenty years since The Wire debuted, and while its legacy may be eclipsed …
TV: Generation Kill
Given David Simon is one of TV’s most important auteurs, not to mention a personal …
TV: The Plot Against America
David Simon is one of the truly great auteurs of modern television, but I was …
TV: Collateral
Points are certainly warranted for thematic ambition and thoroughly professional execution, but the four-episode miniseries …
Non-Fiction: TV (The Book) by Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz
No history of television can ever truly be complete while the medium still exists, but …
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TV: Show Me a Hero
Nobody does television like David Simon, and there’s no bettter, more appropriate time to screen his …
Non-Fiction: The Revolution Was Televised by Alan Sepinwall
I remember reading Alan Sepinwall’s NYPD Blue episode-by-episode reviews back when the Internet was young. …
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Non-Fiction: Difficult Men by Brett Martin
A friend of mine at work loaned me Brett Martin’s Difficult Men (2013), an insightful …
TV: The Shield (Season 2)
Some people whose taste I trust convinced me to continue with The Shield, despite my …
Stress Era Viewing, Concluded
With the conclusion of the Great Condo Disaster (now on its last legs), time to …