True Detective S3E5: “If You Have Ghosts”
True Detective Season 3 is not Season 1, the sequel. There’s no Yellow Kings, no “time is a flat circle,” no elements of American Gothic cult-like behavior. It’s different, it…
True Detective S3E4 “The Hour & the Day”
The act of confession is a cinematic trope as old as they come. Whether it be to a priest, to a friend or confession in a legal sense, there’s something…
True Detective S3E3: “The Big Never”
The third episode of True Detective‘s third season continued the show’s promising start from last week, when we saw the first two episodes air back-to-back. True Detective S3E3 saw relationships…
Kidding Season 1 Review: Andrew & Daniel Look Back at the Season & Forward to Season 2
Throughout the 10 episodes of Kidding Season 1, Editor in Chief Andrew Grevas & Daniel Siuba alternated weekly analysis of the each episode. Now with the season completed and Season…
Art of the Finale: The Sopranos “Made in America”
Some series finales are universally loved and adored, like Six Feet Under. Some are remembered so poorly that everything that came before the finale is now remembered less fondly, like…
Kidding Creator Dave Holstein Discusses Shocking Finale & Much More!
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dave Holstein, creator of Showtime original series Kidding, as well as previously writing for Weeds for seven seasons. In this interview, we covered…
Kidding: Season 1 Finale is a Shocker
“I’m listening”—Jeff Pickles’ message to the children of America came during what could be considered both the best and worst moment simultaneously of his career. The speech he gave at…
Art of the Finale: Dexter “Remember the Monsters”
How does one make a television series finale so bad that even the most dedicated weekly viewers of the series can’t defend it? Ask Scott Buck, co-writer of the Dexter…
Kidding: Philliam (Episode 8)
Every great television series has that one episode in their first season that pulls you in and grabs you for the long haul; that episode where the characters and the…
Kidding: Kintsugi (Episode 7)
The seventh episode of Kidding was a prime example of how a well-written show can take you on an emotional journey, all in a short amount of time; that no…