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UPDATE: Saw the finale. Oh my. As the sixth season of Game of Thrones comes to an end, we are left to look back...
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UPDATE: Saw the finale. Oh my. As the sixth season of Game of Thrones comes to an end, we are left to look back...
Fifteen years ago, Alan Ball introduced HBO audiences to the quirky Fisher family in the landmark series Six Feet Under. And for the years...
As it turns out, your sophomore math teacher was right. You will end up using math in your everyday life. Sort of. Only for...
By Erin Maxwell Thank you, HBO! Despite the fact that you tease us more than a stripper in the champagne room, the cabler giant...
Written by Erin Maxwell It’s been twelve years since we last seen the good townsfolk of Deadwood, but the old adage says, you can’t...
By Alex C. Telander Literary Pumpkins Here are some truly awesome book-related Jack O’Lanterns. Scary Book Award And continuing with the theme we have...
By Erin Maxwell Two weeks ago, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver took an in-depth look at the shady business of televangelists and the...
We’re apparently living in a golden age of TV where the characters, themes and plots on shows are more complex and morally ambiguous than...
We’re only two weeks into HBO’s summer Sunday lineup, but I’m going to go ahead and call it a disaster. This is a low...
By Erin Maxwell After this Sunday’s season finale, fans of Game of Thrones will have to wait another year for the next installment of...
They say you never get a second chance to make a first impression. In comedy, sometimes you can get a lot about a character...
WARNING CONTAINS SPOILERS: Plot references up to Season 5 Episode 1. I’m sure more episodes will have aired by the time this goes up,...
HBO’s The Jinx has been the topic du jour for the last week. In what’s probably a first for true crime TV entertainment, a...
It once seemed like The Wire — a TV show that many regard as one of the greatest, if not the greatest — would...
In 2014, television fans spent the better part of the year saying goodbye to old friends (Sons of Anarchy, How I Met Your Mother),...
There is no doubt that HBO leads the pack in as far as best original programming. Even back in the early days of the...
I still dislike Sunday nights. Schoolboy anxiety of the week ahead was replaced by that of the working world. (For jobs that where I...
In a recent Fresh Air interview with Steven Soderbergh, Terry Gross made an insightful observation that was easy to miss: Ironically, more people will...