04 June 2019
Hannah’s Bachelor Scale
By Kelly Bedard // TV
I Love Hannah Brown. I’m into this Bachelorette season like I haven’t been into this branch of the franchise in quite some time. I know they don’t necessarily cast with …
23 May 2019
Ending Game of Thrones
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
Well, this is it. The series is done. I started writing these articles in 2016, right before season six started. It seems like such a long time ago, three years …
18 May 2019
Grey’s Anatomy, The Privilege of Time, and the Death of Shondaland’s For the People
By Kelly Bedard // TV
I’ve been thinking a lot about Grey’s Anatomy lately. That show,…
16 May 2019
The Absurd Trajectory of the Prophetic Veep
By Kelly Bedard // TV
I hated Veep when it premiered back in 2012. Armando Ianucci’s biting satire of American democracy felt to me like useless cynicism, a crass comedy of bad behaviour like It’s …
14 May 2019
Game of Thrones: “The Bells”
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
Honestly, I don’t know what I’m supposed to tell you about this week’s episode. I had to watch it again immediately after it was over. There’s so much to process, …
07 May 2019
Game of Thrones: “The Last of the Starks”
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
With two episodes left, it’s very clear to everyone involved – the producers, the audience, the actors and the set designers — that we need to pump the gas on …
01 May 2019
Game of Thrones: The Seven Deaths in “The Long Night”
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
Yes, more than seven people died, but the episode was too dark to really see them. Yes, there’s a heavy amount of symbolism in that darkness, the fear of the …
23 April 2019
Game of Thrones: A Night in the Seven Kingdoms
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
It’s the night before the army of the dead descends on Winterfell. Since we’ve got a lot of characters and issues to resolve before our 83 minutes of bloodshed next …
17 April 2019
Game of Thrones: Winterfell and Mirrors
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
I’ve been thinking about mirrors a lot, recently. As symbols, mirrors are often interpreted as portals, doorways, access points to realms beyond or just different spaces. They’re also revelatory, providing …
16 April 2019
The 2018 Critics’ Pick Award Winners: TV
By Kelly Bedard // TV
There’s too much TV for us to watch everything but we watched a lot in 2018 and with this year’s slate of winners we’ve tried to highlight some shows that …
10 April 2019
The Readiness is All: Reflections and Season Eight of Game of Thrones
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
Well, this is it. One season left, then it’s off to whatever comes next…
04 April 2019
Bruce Lee’s Legacy & Cinemax’s Warrior
By Chris Behmke // TV
What stories we tell and who we tell them about greatly influences how we see the world around us. This is particularly in the worlds of cinema and television. Recognition …
28 March 2019
Temptation Island & the Upside of Reboot Culture
By Kelly Bedard // TV
Reboot culture as the go-to MO of our modern television landscape is, to say the very least, uninspiring. My head spins at the thought of the original ideas unexplored because …
13 March 2019
Gallagher Forever
By Kelly Bedard // TV
Sunday’s night’s season nine finale was the final episode of Shameless starring Emmy Rossum. Fiona’s open-ended exit leaves room for a return- for a holiday episode a few seasons away, …
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