Tag: television

  • My Summer Media Diet

    I haven’t writ­ten one of these in a while, but now that sum­mer has near­ly wrapped up, it felt like as good a time as any to cov­er the music, TV, movies, games and books that have cap­tured my atten­tion when I’m not ful­ly immersed in Tik­Tok or my job search. Read­ing Watch­ing Lis­ten­ing Play­ing

  • Can We Talk About Forks?

    As a 45-year-old sud­den­ly adrift on the job mar­ket, the “Forks” episode of The Bear hit dif­fer­ent. Sure, “Fish­es” was an absolute tour-de-force, cap­i­tal “P” per­for­mance, and “Hon­ey­dew” was a pow­er­ful med­i­ta­tion on growth, but “Forks” spoke to me so direct­ly and hope­ful­ly. Watch­ing Richie trans­form from a lov­able, but deeply flawed dirt­bag liv­ing in…

  • Life And How to Live It

    “Life. It’s lit­er­al­ly all we have. But is it any good?” Andy Daly’s For­est Mac­Neil takes Rick Steves’ sen­si­bil­i­ties and applies them to all man­ner of absur­di­ties. Review is great, but I guess this means we won’t get a Don de Mel­lo sitcom…for the daddies. Read more at A.V. Club.

  • 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…

  • My Favorite New Show: Brew Masters

    Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel real­ly knows their demo­graph­ic. “Dead­liest Catch” may have run aground, but leave it to those genius­es to hit upon a sub­ject near­er and dear­er to me: craft beer. The kick­er? Throw Dog­fish Head beer guru Sam Cala­gione into the mix and you’re bound to attract an audi­ence of lit­er­al­ly dozens of beer geeks…