
Non-Fiction: TV Milestones Series
Wayne State University’s TV Milestones series has a delicious concept: it identifies and evaluates groundbreaking television shows from across…
September 5, 2022Wayne State University’s TV Milestones series has a delicious concept: it identifies and evaluates groundbreaking television shows from across…
September 5, 2022David Simon’s We Own This City (2022) is his third crime series to be set in Baltimore, and as…
June 27, 2022It’s been twenty years since The Wire debuted, and while its legacy may be eclipsed by more popular shows…
June 18, 2022Given that David Simon is one of TV’s most important auteurs, not to mention a personal favorite, it has…
December 10, 2021David Simon is one of the truly great auteurs of modern television, but I was a little surprised to…
September 16, 2021Points are certainly warranted for thematic ambition and thoroughly professional execution, but the four-episode miniseries Collateral ultimately can’t quite…
March 18, 2018No history of television can ever truly be complete while the medium still exists, but TV (The Book)…
December 30, 2016Nobody does television like David Simon, and there’s no bettter, more appropriate time to screen his 2015 miniseries Show Me…
July 15, 2016For years, I’ve wondered if a show would ever come along to dethrone The Wire, for me, as the…
May 12, 2014I remember reading Alan Sepinwall’s NYPD Blue episode-by-episode reviews back when the Internet was young. He’s since gone on…
March 25, 2014In a way, it’s fitting that Treme should come quietly to a close with an abbreviated season. The series…
January 6, 2014A friend of mine at work loaned me Brett Martin’s Difficult Men (2013), an insightful look at the transformation…
December 29, 2013Some people whose taste I trust convinced me to continue with The Shield, despite my middling reaction to its…
October 15, 2013Brad Anderson is one of those directors whose films I go out of my way to see. Along with…
September 9, 2013With the conclusion of the Great Condo Disaster (now on its last legs), time to catch up on the…
July 19, 2013