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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 […]

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 […]

Game of Thrones season three premiere offers little to potential new fans

By SARA WORTH
April 2, 2013 2 Comments/in Blogs, Troy Meets World (old)

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’

By KATI MCCORMICK
April 1, 2013 1 Comment/in Arts & Entertainment, Featured

The third season of HBO’s hit drama lives up to the massive hype with a strong first episode that focuses on character development.

Mad Men demonstrates television’s nostalgia for the past

By LOUIS LUCERO II
March 26, 2012 in Arts & Entertainment, Columns

It was the first cable show to take home the Emmy for outstanding drama series three years in a row and last September, Mad Men did it again. It sired a wave of nostalgia that one backward-facing period drama after another hoped to ride into the ratings’ promised land. The show’s ratings are by no […]