I’ve been composing this blog mentally since listening to a discussion of the critical reaction to The Killing on the “Firewall & Iceberg” podcast this morning, and it’s gone through a variety of thesis statements and witty titles. I was going to channel my inner Neil Gaiman and call it “Veena Sud Is Not Your [...]
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First of all, let me say that I sincerely miss the Two-Thousand-Aughts, and that referring to the years of the second decade of this century is far less satisfying, and that I feel privileged to have lived through those special times. Second of all, Alan Sepinwall and Dan Fienberg of HitFix.com* are doing this thing [...]
The Transatlantic Blonde is taking a break from Feminist Friday this week, but I don’t dare lest I lose the swing of things altogether. So I’m going it alone! The benefit of that is that I don’t have to try (with variable success) to piece together an extended, coherent thought. What you’re getting today, then, [...]
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I believe that it was Anton Chekhov who first said that if you park a lawnmower in an office in Act I, you need to run over an Englishman’s foot by the end of the play. If reports are accurate, I watched this entire episode with my mouth agape. Agape, I say. I was made [...]
OK. Tonight’s episode was about legacies, and parts of it almost made me cry (OK, just the Gene parts), but first I have to gush about some stuff. Like Sal’s flirty bedroom dance. Like Gene salting spoonfuls of chocolate ice cream right out of the carton. I have totally done that! It’s awesome. Like Peggy’s [...]
Tonight’s episode of Mad Men was slow… but not in a bad way. It was not boring at all, but the scenes dragged out and dragged out and unwound and you just didn’t know where they were going to end up. It was an hour that seemed like much longer, and I can’t even say [...]
So I have probably improperly processed the episode, although I am allowing alliteration. “Love among the Ruins” was far more depressing to me than it seems to have been for other people online, and I think it’s because I am aligning myself too sympathetically with Peggy’s point of view in this one, what with my [...]
I really, really liked this one. I always take breaks from watching right before the weaker episodes, I guess, and then start to wonder about the series, and then when I stick with it, I end up with awesome. The psychological drama embedded in this episode was potent. That it reminded me of the whole [...]
Well, it’s been a long time coming and I am SO HAPPY that Mad Men has started that I CAN’T WAIT to blog about it, even though I am probably a little too tipsy to make any sense and the episode just ended a few minutes ago so I haven’t fully processed it. Nonetheless, here [...]
Boy, it’s been a while since I’ve watched this show! I got distracted by Buffy and Angel (although I am definitely lukewarm about Buffy right now… Season 5 wasn’t that good), and caught up in other stuff, like a party we had at the house yesterday, but because I was too tired to work last [...]
