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Girls S01E06-S01E07: The Return, Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident

May 30, 2012 Dave Coates 2

This is a double-header post for Lena Dunham’s Girls, the show I keep rooting for to succeed despite its concerted effort to make me meh harder than I’ve ever mehed before. In brief: I like that it’s talking about ugly relationship things that don’t tend to get a lot of air time, I like that it’s generally sex-positive if slightly ambivalent about how it presents its leading men, though even that seems to be evolving over the course of the season.

Game of Thrones S02E09: Blackwater

May 28, 2012 Dave Coates 0

For the first time on Game of Thrones the action took place in one location over one night, under the direction of The Descent’s Neil Marshall and written by G.R.R. Martin himself, which might explain a thing or two about a thing or two. For once recapping this show chronologically might be the better option so here goes.

Game of Thrones S02E08: The Prince of Winterfell

May 23, 2012 Dave Coates 0

Okay, alright, next week is when Stannis finally gets his boats to the back door of King’s Landing.

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Legend of Korra S01E07: The Aftermath

May 22, 2012 Jac Thurmond 1

Last we saw Korra and Friends, they were fighting for their bending lives in the Pro Bending arena against an Equalist attack. So how did that all turn out? On one hand, Mako and

Community S03E20-22: Digital Estate Planning, The First Chang Dynasty, Introduction to Finality

May 21, 2012 Dave Coates 0

After the news that Dan Harmon has been unceremoniously booted from his own show without warning by NBC/Sony, the last three episodes of Community‘s third year have taken a turn for the even finaler. Enough’s been written elsewhere about

Supernatural S07E23: Survival of the Fittest

May 20, 2012 Jac Thurmond 0

It’s time for the final punchline in the one long dick joke that was Supernatural Season 7. That’s right: we’ve got a finale on our hands, folks. The Carry on my Wayward Son montage proves it

Girls S01E05: Hard Being Easy

May 19, 2012 Dave Coates 0

Five weeks into the opening season of Lena Dunham’s ‘a voice of a generation’ show Girls, the hoohah seems to have dissipated and the show can get on with the funny business. The criticisms made of the show could easily be applied (and with more accuracy) to almost any current sitcom, but it seems to have been a victim of its own promotion and the slight hysteria surrounding it in the industry press. Anyway, this episode picks up in the immediate aftermath of Charlie and Ray’s discovery of Hannah’s journal (or notebook) documenting her thoughts on Marnie and Charlie’s relationship.

Game of Thrones S02E07: A Man Without Honour

May 17, 2012 Dave Coates 0

If you’ve seen the bit in The Wire where a quotation appears at the start of the episode that ties up its thematic business into a neat bundle, you’ll be au fait with GoT doing something similar, where a statement is dramatically foregrounded, like “Do you want to lead? Then learn how to follow,” or “You can’t tame a wild thing. Wild creatures have their own rules, their own reasons, and you’ll never know them,” or, this week, “The more people you love, the weaker you are.”