Tag: HBO

  • True Detective

    I loved True Detec­tive. I’m still read­ing arti­cles about how the show will end and all the spec­u­la­tion sur­round­ing it. Heck, they could inter­view any­one who was on set, even if it was just for a day, and I’d prob­a­bly read that. Here’s the Vul­ture’s inter­view with the pro­duc­tion design­er talk­ing about the effort that went…

  • I’ve Seen a Darkness

    Just watched The Promise, a new doc­u­men­tary about Bruce Spring­steen’s Dark­ness on the Edge of Town. I have mixed feel­ings. I’ll be writ­ing about it for Fancast.com this week.

  • I Want to Like Kenny Powers

    But I can’t help but feel like it’s a base­ball-cen­tric Entourage, with John­ny Dra­ma in the lead role. Hav­ing said that, I enjoyed East­bound and Down this morn­ing. Stayed up way too late watch­ing TV last night. Mad Men, Board­walk Empire and East­bound and Down in one night? How am I sup­posed to catch up on…

  • Absorbing “Treme”

    It’s way too late on a school night for me to real­ly dig into every­thing I thought about while watch­ing David Simon’s lat­est opus, “Treme,” on HBO. What I have been col­lect­ing, how­ev­er, are oth­er peo­ples’ feel­ings about the show and I am pos­i­tive­ly fas­ci­nat­ed by the response. I’ll start with the obvi­ous. Lots of…