Film & TV

[rating=8.00] “Server Space” Things have been touch and go with the dudes at Pied Piper. After the death of Peter Gregory, and Gavin’s lawsuit, they finally seem to be heading in the right direction with their start up. To quell sexism, they’ve even hired a woman. Will there be a cap on how good things can […]

[rating=8.00] “Kill the Boy” “A Targaryean alone in this world is a terrible thing.” While a seemingly disparate notion, Game of Thrones has been known to give a thematic nod to whatever holiday happens to intersect with it’s broadcast date. This episode looms heavy over notions of power versus legacy, and how these choices one makes […]

Let’s have a roaring standing ovation for ‘Mad Men’’s penultimate episode, “The Milk and Honey Route,” which somehow managed to one-up last week’s installment in almost every way imaginable.

‘Louie’ is plagued by surreal, Lynchian nightmares in “Untitled.”

[rating=7.00] The D Train is a lowbrow, screwball comedy that successfully masquerades itself as highbrow festival fodder. It’s a fine line to walk, to be sure—the slightest misstep would prove disastrous, destroying the very concept upon which the film rests. But writer-directors Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel take that walk, and they take it well. […]

Typically, when you think of characterizations of transgender characters in film, you most often come up with a list of tragedies. Films like Boys Don’t Cry and Dallas Buyers Club have done an excellent job at showcasing the trials and tribulations a trans person might go through over the course of their life. Indeed, both […]

[rating=7.00] “Grifting 101” I’d like to take this time to dub the latter half of Community season 6 “A New Hope.” Partly because of yesterday’s Star Wars holiday, partly because of last week’s space themed episode, but, mostly because I feel confident in the momentum the series has been gaining. This week’s episode, “Grifting 101,” reminded […]

[rating=7.00] “The Lady” After a sneaking suspicion that Silicon Valley is stupidly sexist, we get a solid episode making fun of everything they’ve been lacking for the past season plus. It felt like a quick episode and not much happened. Erlich is annoyed, Richard is doing his best to keep everyone happy, and females are finally […]

[rating=8.00] “The Sons of the Harpy” After a conspicuously meandering start to the fifth season, last night proved to be one of the most compelling, densely packed and brilliantly paced episodes so far. The repeated callbacks to it’s elaborate, built-in backstory balancing out the ongoing story arcs of those who have survived thus far, and […]

[rating=10.00] “I’m Don Draper from McCann Erickson.” It finally happened: the most heartbreaking words Don Draper has ever spoken. Though the moment felt somewhat like a contrived, allegorical puppet show for his new boss, it didn’t go down any easier. Within the first quarter of “Lost Horizon,” there are a number of apparent, albeit indistinct, […]

Whenever ‘Louie’ tackles the elusive concept of death, it broaches the subject with a peculiar – if not entirely skeptical – eye toward its more popular counterparts: life, rebirth, starting over.

[rating=7.00] The question I keep asking myself is whether or not it’s possible for a bar to be set too high. I’ve made no secret in the past about my love for all things Marvel; as a comic book geek in high school, I longed for a day when studios would give us something that […]

[rating=7.00] Riding on last week’s high, Community was back in the saddle with “Intro to Recycled Cinema.” Following in the footsteps of Troy and Shirley moving on to bigger, better things, it appeared that we lost an original character to an acting career; Chang has made it. The episode opens with a ham commercial focusing […]

‘Mad Men’ offers the coup de grâce to SC&P in the season’s most nuanced episode.

Everyone’s favorite pot smoking, promiscuous, foul-mouthed Teddy bear is back and, if the new red band trailer is any indication, fouler than ever. Ted 2, the sequel to Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane’s surprise live-action hit, hits theaters this June and finds Ted (voiced by MacFarlane) and John (Mark Walberg) engaged in an epic legal […]

[rating=6.00] Last week’s Silicon Valley left us awkwardly sitting at a table in a Mexican restaurant listening to mariachi music with Richard and Gavin. Richard was mulling over the only offer he could muster after the Hooli lawsuit, which of course was from Hooli itself. It’s all a game, and if you don’t know how […]

[rating=7.00] It says a lot about the first two episodes this season that the third can start with Arya sweeping the floors is seen as a drastic improvement. While she’s rededicated herself to Braavos, having passed the most indeterminate admissions test to enter training for the guild of assassins. While she loudly protests the remedial […]

Loneliness without celebrity is just loneliness, and Louie seems to be at odds with both.

[rating=7.00] In an effort to bring Community from the dregs of streaming hell, Harmon and company began this week’s episode with another nod to the fact that everything has been a boring mess. “Advanced Safety Features” isn’t the worst, and that’s a start. In the opening sequence, Frankie discusses the weekly school happenings with the […]

[rating=8.00] As Silicon Valley becomes increasingly more telling of the real world tech community, the comedians of the series remind us that everything can fall apart in seconds. Last week the boys were thrown a loop with a lawsuit slapped on them at the peak of their success with Pied Piper. This week with “Runaway […]