” 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 [...]
Archive for the ‘television’ Category
November 3, 2009
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The assassination of Don Draper– thoughts on Mad Men: The Grown Ups
By Scott Cederlund in televisionIt’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 [...]
October 27, 2009
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Mad Men and Halloween– the masks are off
By Scott Cederlund in televisionSo, 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 [...]
April 21, 2009
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Big Bang Theories and the Multiverse
By Scott Cederlund in comics, televisionEven in French, a reference on television to DC’s Zero Hour has to be funny.
Tags: DC, The Big Bang Theory, Zero Hour
November 28, 2008
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Concrete Blonde– A Long Time Ago (and more on The Shield)
By Scott Cederlund in music, television, videoOne 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
November 26, 2008
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Don’t touch the thermostat and the lights go off automatically– thoughts on The Shield: Family Meeting
By Scott Cederlund in televisionSpoilers 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 remaining [...]
Tags: FX, The Shield, Vic Mackey
November 19, 2008
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“I’ve done worse.” A look at THE SHIELD: POSSIBLE KILL SCREEN
By Scott Cederlund in Review, television(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 police, Mackey [...]
Tags: The Shield
November 13, 2008
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Consolation prize– Pushing Daisies the comic?
By Scott Cederlund in comics, televisionI 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 Brian Fuller [...]
Tags: comics, Pushing Daisies, television
November 4, 2008
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Election day!
By Scott Cederlund in televisionI feel both exhilarated and apprehensive about today’s vote. Exhilarated for the change but apprehensive because I’m not too sure if either candidate alone is up to the challenges that face the United States in the next few years. Whatever you do, make sure you get out and vote one way or another.
Alan Sepinwall, one [...]
Tags: 24, Dennis Haybert
October 27, 2008
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Can Vic out race a bullet?– thoughts on the final episodes of The Shield
By Scott Cederlund in televisionFor almost six seasons, I’ve waited and anticipated what I thought needed to be the bloody and just ending of the show. The “hero” Vic Mackey was a bad, bad man and I believed that there was no way he could just go on and live a happy life when all was said and done. [...]
Tags: FX, Michael Chiklis, Shane Vandrell, The Shield, Vic Mackey
