“Who is Don Draper?” It should be a simple question. It is a reporter’s question, trying to do a simple profile piece on the new creative darling of Madison Avenue, Don Draper. Or is that Dick Whitman? It echoes a question from last season, as Don was trick or treating with his family and a [...]
Tags: Don Draper, Mad Men, Matt Weiner
Batmancomics.info So we’re watching some Scooby Doo (I loathe Scooby Doo by the way) show on Cartoon Network which features a hippie surfer dude going on about crimes and conspiracies. Then I suddenly realize that the voice is no less than Batman, Family Guy’s Mayor, or my own favorite role as Lionel Lamely. It was [...]
” The new village looks more normal than I would have expected. When I think of the original Village, it seems small and self-contained to me. It was an artificial environment that didn’t try to be anything but that. It was a prison and still maintained some aspects of that. The new Village looks too [...]
It’s odd watching a reproduction of a 1963 black & white television broadcast on a big LCD High Def television in stereo surround sound. We’ve come to expect television to perfectly mimic the appearance life. Things like misadjusted vertical holds and bad tuners are a thing of the past. If our television screen started just [...]
So, who is Don Draper now? In The Gypsy and the Hobo, we saw Don Draper lose the one thing that really matters to him; control. His wife Betsy, in an amazing display of backbone, confronts Don in a surprise attack, as his latest affair sits in his car down the street, waiting for him [...]
Even in French, a reference on television to DC’s Zero Hour has to be funny.
Tags: DC, The Big Bang Theory, Zero Hour
One of the best things about the final episode of The Shield was the montage of scenes that accompanied the closing credits with the use of Concrete Blondes’ “A Long Time Ago” used as the song. As much as the line “I’ve done worse” and the images of Shane and his family from the last [...]
Tags: Concrete Blonde, The Shield
Spoilers and foul language to follow Here’s how fucked up The Shield was: up until the last 45 minutes or so, I was hoping for a happy ending. I wanted Vic and Ronnie to run away and head down to Mexico. I wanted Shane, Mara and Jackson to be a family together. I wanted the [...]
Tags: FX, The Shield, Vic Mackey
(Spoilers after this.) “I’ve done worse.” Those words have haunted me since the end of the penultimate THE SHIELD, as Vic Mackey has finally ensured his own protection at the cost of everything and everyone else around him. It’s almost funny how trying to protect his wife who’s already sold him out to the Farmington [...]
Tags: The Shield
I don’t know why I clicked on a MSNBC article about Mariah Carey needing 20 pieces of luggage for a 3 day trip but I found the following story added on at the end: An exit strategy for ‘Pushing Daisies’ ABC’s Pushing Daisies definitely seems marked for execution unless ratings magically improve. But show creator [...]
Tags: comics, Pushing Daisies, television