Returning television shows are met with anticipation
The latest episodes airing in January will throw viewers more curveballs.
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2017 anticipates a year of relevant, adapted Netflix original content
Though not quite as expansive in production as the venerable HBO, Netflix’s best days still unquestionably lie ahead.
Screen on Sound: Captain America, Under the Skin, and more
In this week’s installment of Screen on Sound, Lifestyle writers Landon McDonald and Nicolas Ransinangue talk about the recent and upcoming movie releases, as well as what’s hot on TV.
Binge-watching detracts from TV-viewing experience
Valentine’s Day and the long weekend for President’s Day made last weekend perfect for bingeing. No, I don’t mean the type of bingeing where you drown your loneliness and sorrow in a box of chocolate; I mean binge-watching “House of Cards.” The highly-anticipated second season of the political drama premiered in its entirety on Netflix […]
Paget Brewster’s return to ‘Criminal Minds’ finds rare success
“People always leave,” were the famous words of One Tree Hill’s Peyton Sawyer. But the problem with TV shows isn’t that actor’s leave — it’s that shows try to bring them back. Wednesday Marked the 200th episode of CBS’s Criminal Minds which also saw the return of Paget Brewster’s Emily Prentiss. From the moment Brewster […]
Big budget films rely on visuals
Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad, came to visit USC on Tuesday for the “Writing Presents…” series. Amid amusing anecdotes about actor Aaron Paul (who plays Jesse Pinkman on the show) and pink teddy bears (it’s a long story), he made a point to discuss the change in the movie industry. Gilligan argued what […]
Twitter expedites spoilers
It’s hard, sometimes, being a fan of television on the West Coast and being on Twitter. Perhaps no night is more difficult than Sunday during the hours leading up to a new episode of Mad Men or Breaking Bad. To put it bluntly — my feed becomes a giant scroll of spoilers. To their credit, […]
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.
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 […]