by Matt Freeman | Aug 5, 2015 | TV Reviews, Uncategorized
I first encountered Wet Hot American Summer in a fashion typical of the time—someone had a DVD in college, so we gathered around the collective bonfire of the glowing television, drank beer, and watched it. I came across Super Troopers this way; a halcyon time when...
by Matt Freeman | Aug 3, 2015 | TV Reviews, Uncategorized
I sat on my couch, eating cereal. Mondays are my Sundays; I rose late, drank coffee. But as the pot was brewing and I thought about what could possibly happen on this episode of True Detective, I was apathetic. I didn’t really care. In no way did I think I was going...
by Matt Freeman | Jul 27, 2015 | TV Reviews, Uncategorized
Last week, after making some assumptions that perhaps were more hopeful aspirations than anything else, I can’t help but wonder why I bother to continue on with a show that, quite frankly, doesn’t make a ton of sense anymore. There are significantly more juicy...
by Matt Freeman | Jul 20, 2015 | TV Reviews, Uncategorized
Stories have arcs. Stories go up then come back down, a rollercoaster that (hopefully) utilizes our emotions to show conflict between characters and those characters’ eventual resolution. Most stories require the hero to overcome something, to become better; to become...
by Matt Freeman | Jul 13, 2015 | TV Reviews, Uncategorized
Subtlety is what makes a great series great. The small creases of an actor’s face, the lines between right and wrong no wider than a hair—that’s where things happen. By beating the audience over the head again and again, we become inured to the fantastic, bored by the...
by Matt Freeman | Jul 10, 2015 | TV Reviews, Uncategorized
When I’m not poo-pooing your favorite show, taking all your hopes and dreams and excitement and drinking them all up, I actually do like TV. Like, like-like. It’s in my best personal and professional interest to watch huge swaths of TV (It’s what I study and...
