Fall season brings new faces and shows
The fall TV lineup features continuations of many of the season’s most anticipated storylines as well as buzzy, brand-new shows.
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Midnight Sunrise, a Cartier dildo, and more influence on foreign policy
On the second season premiere of HBO’s most comedic new comedy Veep, it’s midterm election night and it seems Vice President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) actually helped on the campaign trail—though not enough to keep the House. I am no stranger to Armando Ianucci’s work; from The Thick of It (UK) to its spin-off feature […]
TV still plagued by gender gap
There are dramatically fewer female writers than male writers working in the television industry, according to a new study released by the Writers Guild of America, West, which examined employment patterns for writers from the 2011-12 television season. In a world that seems to have progressed in the matter of gender equality, not only is […]
Mad Men season 6 premiere captures moral dichotomy
It is the winter of 1967, just months before the My Lai massacre and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the characters of AMC’s Mad Men are haunted by death. Sunday’s two hour season six premiere sent audiences right back into the height of the Vietnam War. Don Draper, who during Korea […]
Death pervades Mad Men season opener
The penultimate season takes on a darker feel as Don Draper contemplates death.
Trojan Vision celebrates 15 years on air
The award-winning student television station was founded in the 1997-1998 school year.
Modern audiences gravitate to television storytelling format
Have we reached a point where television is more influential to popular culture than film? That’s what Vanity Fair seems to argue, at least. The lifestyle magazine made a point to say that television, rather than film, “enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture,” as culture critic James Wolcott was quoted as […]
Game of Thrones season three premiere offers little to potential new fans
One of the main purposes of this blog is “telexperimentation.” To that effect, it’s about watching new shows that are off my beaten path, really just to see what sticks. In that regard, starting with Game of Thrones was either a great idea or a terrible idea; jumping into a fantasy world in some distant-past […]
Game of Thrones premiere teases ‘winter is coming’
The third season of HBO’s hit drama lives up to the massive hype with a strong first episode that focuses on character development.
Walking Dead serves as metaphor for reality
When it comes to the subject of supernatural phenomena, producers have moved in quite a few different directions. There are the romantic, sexualized vampires that seem more interested in finding potential mates than sucking blood, which supposedly is their natural instinct. And there are glamorized witches and wizards from series such as Sabrina, the Teenage […]