Archive for the 'Television' Category

HBO’s “Rome” is one of the best series to be put on television.

HBO’s “Rome”, written and co-created by John Milius, William J. MacDonald, and Bruno Heller, is one of the smartest television shows I’ve ever watched. It follows the lives of two soldiers in Caesars 13th Legion, Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, a very unlikely pair — complete opposites in fact — that help shape, albeit accidentally, [...]

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Season 3 of Showtime’s Dexter.

I’ve already blogged about “Dexter” once before (“Darkly Dreaming Dexter“) but that was more so about the books By Jeff Lindsay than anything else. Now I’m going to blog about the season 3 of Dexter that is currently airing on Showtime.

Beware of spoilers.
“Dexter” keeps getting better and better with each passing season. I have to [...]

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

HBO GREEN LIGHTS A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE!!!

MY FAVORITE BOOK SERIES OF ALL TIME IS NOW, FINALLY, GOING TO BE ON HBO!!!!
According to GRRM’s Livejournal here: Not A Blog: Huge, Huge News
“HBO has given the production order.
They will be filming the pilot episode of A GAME OF THRONES.
It’s just the pilot so far. They’ll need to see that before they decide whether [...]

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Paris Hilton’s My New BFF.

In a brief respite from politics, I’ve decided to turn on MTV…

And even though pretty much all of us dreaded it, it was only a matter of time before Paris Hilton got her own reality television show, right? However, it just so happens that the show she has is much more stomach turning than anyone [...]

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Zeitgeist: Addendum.

THE VIDEO IS BELOW MY REVIEW TO WATCH and also please excuse typos and grammar errors.
“The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream ‘Allah Akbar’ before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear five thousand dollar suits, and work in the highest positions of [...]

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

And now…

…For something completely unrelated.
Listen, I know this blog lately has almost been all politics and things like that. It’s sort of becoming a theme, but to be honest this is a blog supposed to be about anything interesting. Anything that I think is interesting anyway… and it just so happens that I find politics and [...]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

“Winter is Coming.”

Winter is Coming and won’t it be exciting when it gets here?
HBO has picked up one of my absolute favorite series for their network. “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R. R. Martin.
According to this article on Wikipedia, the project is still not greenlit and the 2007 Writers Guild of America [...]

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Darkly Dreaming Dexter.

I’ve started reading the book “Darkly Dreaming Dexter” by Jeff Lindsay.

Showtime made the hit show “Dexter” with Michael C. Hall off of these books:

They call him “America’s Favorite Serial Killer.” And he really is.
Why?
Because this serial killer doesn’t go after your kids or after women walking home alone late at night from a [...]

Friday, August 1st, 2008